first bad gunbroker experience

[izzy]

Back in December I purchased this: https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/800602462

That link is actually a re-listing of the auction I won by using the buy it now button. Here is a summary of the transaction. Keep in mind the listing does say there is a two week lead time to ship because these are custom built.

12.3 Payment via paypal
12.3 First excuse - sick
12.19 Ask for status update
12.19 Christmas rush - my order is next up
1.10 Ask for status update
1.10 Any day now - it's getting painted
1.27 Sorry things were busy - will ship this week
2.5 Did it ship last week, haven't seen it?
2.5 Next week it'll ship - fixing a problem
2.18 What's my status?
2.18 It's not done - get off my ass - you want a refund or what
2.18 Yes please
2.25 Refund money finally shows up in my paypal account

This is just a summary, there was a whole lot more back and forth. The excuses for not shipping ranged from being sick to there was bad weather. I'm happy that I eventually got my money back. I really don't understand how the seller has such good feedback, after googling more about him.

I found all kinds of forum posts about this guy ripping people off. Seeing as I actually didn't really get ripped off I'm not going to post more information about him at this point.

This brings me to two questions. Anyone know where I can buy a mount like this? I've searched around and can't find anything that looks as good.

Then I wonder, is it possible to fake gunbroker feedback? I've read through what seems to be tons of good feedback for this guy but most of it looks like the exact same feedback. It seems like it was generated by a script or something. The bad feedback I've seen seems to mirror my experience.


Okay three questions. Guy wrote me and said that after it's actually done he'll sell it to me for $100 off. I shouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole right?


eta: typo