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?
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u/escv_69420 21d ago
For the seller the risk is zero. Verify the PAL, get the money, send package in a timely fashion.
For the buyer, different story. Even good outcomes can be a little hair raising.
I once purchased a very valuable thing from an old francophone who didn't own a cellphone. His communication was really poor, (I didn't know he was an old french luddite at the time) and I though he took my big stack of cash and dipped. Turns out he was just chilling on his computer at the time I first contacted him, and only goes on the thing like once a week if that. He sent the package the next time he went to the post office, which was like 7-8 days after EFT and sent it the snailiest of mail. I actually got the package before he ever replied to my "Ummm HELLO!..." messages. When he did it was just "I send it. Did you get?" It all worked out but it was pretty nerve racking.