Detail strip prior to sale?

[ray1970]

I have had a couple of requests to take a couple of my sales items apart for inspection. The buyers asked nicely if I'd mind taking it apart. I will pop a slide off a pistol for someone, pull a bolt from a rifle, or something along those lines if it puts the buyers mind at ease.

[Graves]

Glocks and pistols of the like are fine with me but if it's a 1911 or something that takes a little practice to tear down, I'll hold the cash first - an idiot mark and you just bought it.

[mc223]

I believe that all potential buyers of any product that I have for sale must first, not mistrust me. Someone may have burned them in their past, but it wasn't me.
In return I will provide, as much truthful information as I have on the subject.

Or they can just go away.

I would take a questionable firearm to a smith myself and have it checked before putting it up for sale.

If a potential buyer doesn't like my terms. Oh Well.

No disassembly by a potential buyer.

[TS12000]

I guess I'm in the vein of just ask as well. If a seller won't and you don't feel right about it walk away. However, don't just start ripping apart someone else's shit, not cool.

I wouldn't be too worried about much more than a quick look over for most of the established members here though. You've proven you are not here to just dump some guns + the feedback section for some of you is amazingly long, positive, and helpful if you haven't met the person before.

[BlasterBob]

an idiot mark and you just bought it.

Guess you are referring to the careless reinsertion of the slide stop on a 1911/1911A1 which can produce that damn unsightly scratch from just behind the trigger right up the frame. UGH.

[BlasterBob]

Ouch, am I guilty of killing another thread with my post yesterday?

[Clint45]

I have had a couple of requests to take a couple of my sales items apart for inspection. The buyers asked nicely if I'd mind taking it apart. I will pop a slide off a pistol for someone, pull a bolt from a rifle, or something along those lines if it puts the buyers mind at ease.

My problem is, due to my disabilities, I have a great deal of difficulty stripping down even the simplest of weapons, and I'm certainly not going to attempt it with no prior notice standing in some parking lot.

I've allowed people to take the slide off of pistols before if it was something like a Glock or a Makarov. That is no big deal for me. I've read the armorer's manual for the M1 carbine before and knew that you need special tools to break down the trigger group and there is no way I'd ever be able to put it back together. Same thing with an expert tuned match trigger on a 1911 -- I don't want some fumble fingers phucktard taking a perfect trigger apart for no possible reason other than they want to fuck me out of a hundred dollars or more on a pistol I've already priced two hundred less than it is worth. If you don't like the trigger pull you can have a smith install heavier springs.

[TFOGGER]

the big red flag for me would be that said jackhole was about to try to disassemble the "collector" gun with a leatherman. That's like using a crescent wrench to "look" at a classic Porsche.