Quick story not specifically related to this dealer. A few months ago I purchased a Sterlingworth 20 gauge off Gunbroker as a "Buy it now" situation. Gun had nice pics of the the sides of the frame but lousy pictures of the entire gun. Nice case color, unturned scrrews as they say. Got the gun and pulled it out of the shipping container and there essentially was no barrel blueing. Barrels had been polished (badly) and there were still pits to be seen. I never accepted the gun. My dealer reboxed it up and I sent an email to the seller and also left a phone message. Crickets for 3 days and then an email received saying send it back for a refund. No refund until the gun was received and they verified there wasn't any damage to the gun. I explained I had never taken delivery, so how could I have damaged it. They said they wanted to see how it was packed. My reply was I used their packing because I'd never taken delivery. Just put the bubblepack back around the barrels (I never even looked at the receiver) and put it back in the box.
Before we had shipped it back, they had relisted the same gun on Gunbroker with the same write up ("Very fine, all original conditon") and it was sold again as "Buy it now" by someone else. So the gun had been resold while it was still sitting in my dealers safe, waiting to be shipped back.
Bottom line was we shipped it back and about 10 days later I got my refund. Never knew whether the new buyer had the same issue with the gun that I did or not. BTW, this Dealer had a A+ rating on Gunbroker with over 500 positive transactions. Thank goodness I had asked about a 3 day inspection in advance of receiving the gun and was given I thumbs up. PS I paid shipping both ways.
