Buyer gets robbed in Ooltewah

[DUKETN]

Be Careful Guys...I just heard about a guy in Ooltewah meeting up to buy a gun and was robbed by the seller.....It is in the news so facts are still being gathered.....

[monkeylizard]

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/35467053/man-trying-to-buy-gun-robbed-by-seller-at-ooltewah-walmart

 

[Ugly]

Poor planning on the buyers part for sure, luckily he wasn't hurt. Hopefully he learned a life lesson at least. 

[Ronald_55]

Meeting a random person locally to buy a gun is always a risk. Best you can do is watch for warning signs and be very cautious of deals that are too good to be true.

[bersaguy]

I have gone a few times to purchase a firearm in a public place alone but it was always a TGO member in good standings. If I was meeting someone not a TGO member I never went alone but had an armed friend with me to watch everything going on.  

[DUKETN]

Thankfully I have always been lucky  and even ended up making good friends from buys over the years...But 98% of my buys are from fellow TGO members.

Edited May 19, 2017 by DUKETN
Wrong wording

[monkeylizard]

All my private firearm sales and buys are with TGOers with a lot of posts or with good iTrader feedback from members I know or who also have a lot of posts. Anything else like Craigslist gets done at the local police station, and then only after an actual telephone call. You can get a pretty good feel for most folks by a phone call. That's something you don't get with chat and email.

 

Edited May 19, 2017 by monkeylizard

[bud]

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Edited May 30, 2017 by bud

[mikegideon]

7 hours ago, bersaguy said:

I have gone a few times to purchase a firearm in a public place alone but it was always a TGO member in good standings. If I was meeting someone not a TGO member I never went alone but had an armed friend with me to watch everything going on.  

I remember that  

[Links2k]

I only buy from stores and TGO members. 

[bersaguy]

1 hour ago, mikegideon said:

I remember that  

Me too...............

[DaveTN]

Something is wrong with that story. You don’t set-up a meet with someone that is probably armed so you can take their car. You take it from some poor sap on the street.

[bersaguy]

58 minutes ago, DaveTN said:

Something is wrong with that story. You don’t set-up a meet with someone that is probably armed so you can take their car. You take it from some poor sap on the street.

After reading the news release it almost sounds like it was a deal made between them for the guy to take his car so he could collect the insurance money on it or get ou of paying for it with insurance paying it off for him. I have heard of that happening a few times but they always got caught in insurance fraud sooner or later............jmho

[Ugly]

its so easy to be an honest and good person, too much effort i guess. WIFM?