I put an AR lower on Louisiana Sportsman and had quite a few weird interested "buyers". Most of them made it completely obvious that something was definitely not right.
One texted me asking if they could build an assault rifle out of the lower. I told him no it was not registered to be fully automatic and he wrote me back asking if there was a way he could modify it to be fully automatic. I never wrote him back.
Another called me collect from a phone number that showed up as "Puerto Rico" on my iphone. I hung up and he called me again (not collect) so I answered and told him I could not sell to someone who was not a resident of the state of Louisiana. He started blowing up my phone with text messages with scans of his military ID, his drivers license, his facebook address, his home address... He just wouldn't let it go. He even took a picture of the money saying he just got his tax return back and was ready to buy a lower. Taxes don't even start until the 30th so there's no way he just got a return.
I removed the ad from LA Sportsman and almost immediately got a phone call that basically went "Hey I saw you removed your for sale article. Did you end up selling it? Do you know who the buyer was? I am going to see if I can buy it from him because I'm really interested in building an assault weapon." Really bizarre stuff.
I even had someone on the forums message me about it saying "i want the ar lower. call me 'namehere' at ###-####" and I thought it was real bizarre the name had quotes around it like "this isn't my real name" bizarre. I texted her back and forth about it for 30-40 minutes and she breaks out "so what's your name" and didn't seem too happy that I would only give out my first name. Told her I could meet up anytime during the week and she said her husband didn't want her to go alone and it would have to be the weekend and I would have to drive to her.
So if you guys have a sale going on and there's anything "funny" feeling about the person you're selling to. Abandon ship! It's not worth it to make a bad sale because you have dollar signs blocking your field of vision. I ended up making a deal with someone I've done business with before on these forums for quite a bit below my asking price because I trust him.
One texted me asking if they could build an assault rifle out of the lower. I told him no it was not registered to be fully automatic and he wrote me back asking if there was a way he could modify it to be fully automatic. I never wrote him back.
Another called me collect from a phone number that showed up as "Puerto Rico" on my iphone. I hung up and he called me again (not collect) so I answered and told him I could not sell to someone who was not a resident of the state of Louisiana. He started blowing up my phone with text messages with scans of his military ID, his drivers license, his facebook address, his home address... He just wouldn't let it go. He even took a picture of the money saying he just got his tax return back and was ready to buy a lower. Taxes don't even start until the 30th so there's no way he just got a return.
I removed the ad from LA Sportsman and almost immediately got a phone call that basically went "Hey I saw you removed your for sale article. Did you end up selling it? Do you know who the buyer was? I am going to see if I can buy it from him because I'm really interested in building an assault weapon." Really bizarre stuff.
I even had someone on the forums message me about it saying "i want the ar lower. call me 'namehere' at ###-####" and I thought it was real bizarre the name had quotes around it like "this isn't my real name" bizarre. I texted her back and forth about it for 30-40 minutes and she breaks out "so what's your name" and didn't seem too happy that I would only give out my first name. Told her I could meet up anytime during the week and she said her husband didn't want her to go alone and it would have to be the weekend and I would have to drive to her.
So if you guys have a sale going on and there's anything "funny" feeling about the person you're selling to. Abandon ship! It's not worth it to make a bad sale because you have dollar signs blocking your field of vision. I ended up making a deal with someone I've done business with before on these forums for quite a bit below my asking price because I trust him.