r/canadaguns • u/Financial-Big-7814 • 21d ago

Misc Dealing with gunpost

When buying or selling something on gunpost and someone responds to your ad with a profile but has either no reviews or recently made the account less then a week, month or six months? Do you even respond ? What's the cut off? Or offered you a deposit but can't pick it up for a month? (I have had this also now) Just say screw it and decide to keep it instead lol?

14 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

36 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/pr0cyn1c 21d ago

two criteria:
they are local, its cash, and done face to face in public after i verify PAL or....
sure i can send it after i verify PAL.... then ship it COD....

No down payments.
contact me when you have the full amount and if its still up for sale else fuck off.

new or old account makes no difference.

edit because spastic keyboard gymnastics.

12

u/SpectreBallistics Spectre Ballistics International (Verified) 21d ago

I never do COD. EMT up front only.

1

u/BSDnumba123 21d ago

Why no COD? Can’t EMT be reversed?

6

u/SpectreBallistics Spectre Ballistics International (Verified) 21d ago

If the they decide they don't want the gun during transit they can just refuse to pay the COD and then you get stuck with the fees.

EMT can't be reversed once it's accepted by the seller.

3

u/One-Coffee-2621 21d ago

As someone who works in the courier industry, COD is never not a problem. It's a PiA to set up, your paying an extra fee for the privilege, and the receiver "was never told they had to pay for the shipment." And that has nothing to do with it being a firearm. EMT all the way

4

u/BrotherLefthand 21d ago

Etransfer can't be reversed once it's deposited. Setup auto-deposit and you'll be fine 99.999% of the time.

4

u/GetOnMyAmazingHorse 20d ago

Can be reverse on fraud case. Interac transfers are notorious for that on facebook marketplace deals that goes wrong.

1

u/Subject_Big4437 21d ago

Not on auto deposit

1

u/pr0cyn1c 21d ago

Oh? See i distrust EMT ... but on the flip side COD only works up to a certain figure - 1K or less if i recall?

8

u/looloopklopm 21d ago edited 21d ago

FWIW - I've taken probably 200 gunpost payments via EMT and have never once had a problem.

2

u/SpectreBallistics Spectre Ballistics International (Verified) 21d ago

EMT is fine. Once it's deposited its yours.

1

u/pr0cyn1c 21d ago

that seems to be general consensus.

My concern is mostly around using an insecure transmission like email - lots of risks there... or at least there used to be. I understand that Canadian banks use strong encryption so maybe some my worry is unwarranted... but compromised emails and phishing scams seem to be on the uptick so thats a good portion of my distrust.

Anyhow, as a business im sure you witness more transactions that i on any given day, so i'll trust your opinion on this ;)

3

u/SpectreBallistics Spectre Ballistics International (Verified) 21d ago

The money isn't sent by email. You're just notified by email. Your bank requires you to login to accept it, or do nothing if you have auto deposit. I've received thousands of EMTs. It's fine.

1

u/pr0cyn1c 21d ago

ah ok, thought it worked that you got an email with a link, which you clicked, which then opened up a browser that enables you to authenticate with your bank to deposit.