It is currently going for $785 -- but that seems pretty high. Is there anything special about it, other than the fact that it's a Winchester?
WWII Winchester Serial #1090739, M1 Carbine Barrel, Bolt Sight Vintage 1942 | eBay
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It is currently going for $785 -- but that seems pretty high. Is there anything special about it, other than the fact that it's a Winchester?
WWII Winchester Serial #1090739, M1 Carbine Barrel, Bolt Sight Vintage 1942 | eBay
All those bidders are awful trusting.
For starters, you can’t sell guns on eBay.
Notice how the seller doesn’t say anything about this being a firearm or the receiver or anything.
Let’s say the seller is a bit short of scruples and send ONLY the barrel, bolt, and sight.
What recourse would the bidder have?
“Excuse me, officer, he sold me this as an ounce of weed but it’s actually only 20 grams.”
I buy at least 50% of the supplies needed for my fishing guide business on E-Bay.. I'm perfectly comfortable buying used - BUT.... you have to know what things are worth in the real world, and I walk away from stuff all the time if it's bid up too high, or I have the slightest suspicion that something's not kosher... Every now and then I end up on the short end - but rarely for much at all...
Noting the large number of bids alone would send me somewhere else...
Bingo.Quote:
Originally Posted by lemaymiami
Short of underwear I don't buy much of anything new anymore. Auctions get into your blood and it's hard to shake. That $150 weed trimmer at Lowe's? I'll find one at an auction for $10, thank you very much.
This one drips with scam.
"Of course I didn't send you the receiver! That's a firearm. You can't sell firearms on eBay. I just showed it assembled for illustration. Thanks for the $800. Bye!"
You can buy firearms on ebay. It happens. It's against ebay policy, that's all. Nothing illegal about it.
Never said it was illegal.
Just said that when the buyer ends up with a handful of parts instead of the Carbine shown, he has no recourse. He can’t very well go to eBay and say he tried to buy something against their policy and it didn’t work out for him.
I have learned, eventually, that there's some stuff on the various auction sites that's none of my business. I worry about my auctions only and hope that eBay doesn't ban me for selling sears, hi-cap mags and collapsible stocks, all of which I've been dinged for before. Of course there's always the chance that some schmuck ratted me out some of the times, but maybe not.
Also, to show what lengths eBay goes to with me, I have actually had several phantom (nonexistent) auctions pulled months and once over a year past the time I originally posted the item. I guess their gestapo software never sleeps.
It's a valid point that the buyer might get scammed. If he has an electronic agreement to buy everything in the pics that could safe guard the buy somewhat.
One of the regulars here placed a receiver only on ebay before. Within the past year wasn't it?
I wonder if someone that lived close enough to him and went to him with a reasonable cash offer, would he take it................
Not gun related, but he does have some stuff up for sale that can be picked up local.
If this WRA auction does run it's course, I'm interesting in the Shipping Method
I contacted the seller and he told me Item will be as pictured, complete with no parts missing.
Auction ended, possibly by the seller or by eBay because of a flagging by a member. I'm not necessarily pointing to this auction in particular, but who are really the enemies of the average collectors such as ourselves? The ATF, some dealers and of course, at times, ourselves.
I see nothing wrong when the ATF not only requires that the firearms laws be followed - but actually enforces them... I'm no lawyer (just an old retired cop) - but I'm pretty sure that item needs to go through an FFL for the transaction to be legal... This has nothing to do with E-Bay (unless they've quit enforcing their own rules)- but the item looks to me to qualify as a "firearm" whether it has a stock or not... or most of the items needed to make it functional... If someone knows otherwise please fill me in...
Lots and lots of info on this sort of stuff over on this site Legal | The High Road
I'll agree with anyone that some of our laws need to be changed - but until that's done I want nothing to do with transactions that break laws...
It’s likely the seller would have required it shipped to an FFL. The only reason I was against it was the fact it is against eBay rules. I sell A LOT on eBay and work hard to follow the rules. If I have something to sell that doesn’t fall in line with the rules, I put it on gunbroker - it’s not that hard.
So when I see someone blatantly going against the rules, it irks me. I find it highly unlikely this seller genuinely thought it was ok to sell this on eBay.
With all this said; It is a firearm,The receiver is classified as a firearm.
This listing was ended by the seller because there was an error in the listing.
With all the bidding I wonder if he will let it go to the highest bid or if he is allowed? I'm not sure what happens when an item is pulled.
Yes, it sounds like the seller ended it himself. One of the choices eBay gives you when an auction is ended early is there was an error in the listing. Btw, I seriously doubt it will return, not on eBay anyway.
Copied/pasted after opening the link, then clicking on the picture:
WWII Winchester Serial #1090739, M1 Carbine Barrel, Bolt Sight Vintage 1942 | eBay
My WAG,
It was turned in by someone.
Maybe the sheer number of views AND WATCHERS caught the attention on the E Police.
Messages,Questions and Answers asked probably.... Monitored ? :confused:
I've had answers to potential buyers denied because of adding my Email address.
It's better ended. So it doesn't end up in the wrong hands.
Gun owners don't need any Bad Press now or in the future.
JMHO
Maybe he got the offer he wanted and decided that was the best option (to end it and legally transfer it to the buyer before eBay cancelled the sale and he was left hanging wondering how to contact the bidder).
Well he did have a 10" radial arm saw on bench top with a BIN for $35 that had to be picked up local ??Quote:
Originally Posted by tenOC
We'll never know....
Until someone pops up on one of the forums asking questions about his WRA 1,090739.
Wait A Minute........ FOUND HIM......... :dancingbanana::dancingbanana::dancingbanana:
Anyone interested if he still has it, You can reach him thru his other Auctions...
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I personally don't like the color of the parts, staking nor the price, but I don't see any issue being out of state and buying from a guy on ebay. It's the same as Gunbroker. You transfer it like everyone already does. The guy is just maximizing his exposure on an anti2a format.
It's not like the shady, low quality characters who invent crimes where they didn't exist before they showed up. For instance, (true story) yesterday at our local show some long time private table dealer walked up to me as I was leaving offering to sell an M2 trigger pack for "5". He had some unknown guy standing next to him sticking his head into the conversation. I asked the seller "thousand?". His reply was "hundred". It wasn't registered. Oh, I get it. You're here to help that guy next to you invent a crime where one didn't exist. NO! I already bought a registered one for many thousands.
rcathay that ploy might have worked in Ann Arbor during the 70's and 80's. It was a five dollar fine and mostly unenforced