![]() They need to be warned so they don’t get screwed like I did,” he warned. “Other gun owners need to be aware of this. To date, he has not recouped a single dollar. He went to his bank to see if the funds could be recovered. “I thought to myself that there was no such thing as a $750 insurance policy for a $500 gun. ![]() “I got a letter that said there were ‘unforeseen circumstances,’ so they wanted me to pay $750 for a refundable insurance policy, so they could send the gun from there to my FFL,” Bill said. ![]() Eventually, he was able to decipher that the pistol left Xtreme’s headquarters in Utah and made it to Alabama, but then there was a shipping snag, which Bill was told he could remedy for an additional fee. It showed a trucking company and pictures of their trucks. It was much different than tracking numbers he’d used for UPS or the USPS. Xtreme Gun Broker sent Bill a tracking number, which didn’t work very well. “My girlfriend had a Zelle account so we sent the money through Zelle.” “I was going to give them a credit card, but he said they didn’t take cards. ”īill live-chatted with someone who identified himself as Carl, who confirmed they had the pistol in stock for $500 plus $50 for shipping. “Nobody had them, but then I found one website that had them in stock – Xtreme Gun Broker. “I couldn’t find them anywhere,” he said. 22 LR handgun, which he wanted for steel challenge matches. His saga began with a search for an FN 502, a tactical. Bill’s wallet is $550 lighter thanks to an online scammer masquerading as a legitimate gun dealer, and he knows it could have been worse.Ī retired doctor and avid shooter from north Florida, Bill did not want his last name used for this story. ![]()
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