Ive been on this site for years, and done literally thousands of deals on it. To date I have had 1 bad transaction, and it was just a guy who had me pull a rifle off the market until he got paid and could buy it, and never called after I tried to contact him numerous times. So even my bad transaction could have been worse.
Generally, my experience has been very good, but lately I have had a rash of this type of behavior ("I'll take it, let me get the money together" and then poof, gone). As in 3 or 4 within a few weeks. It's gotten quite irritating. I get it that things happen in life, but if you really aren't sure you want something, please don't contact the seller get them to hold on their gun with a promise of a sale while you scour the internet for a better deal (or whatever the hell people are doing when they do the INGO fade-away).
I've been pretty tempted to ding the people doing this, giving them negative feedback, but so far I've held off on the chance they are being honest about their change in circumstance. Maybe INGOers are just really unlucky this time of year.
Now, once the deals I done have gotten to the actually face-to-face part, they been all pretty great. Meeting a ton of great people and shooting the breeze with them. I've only had one person walk away from a deal that we had already negotiated, which was a bit strange (it was supposedly about condition, but there were multiple pictures of the rifle in the ad, so I don't know what exactly was confusing about that), but I had several other offers on that gun and sold it immediately.
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