Need help sold gun that worked guy claims it doesn't

[VERO1]

I was wondering if he had done any improvements or modifications to it after you traded it to him.

[JAB]

Making something right is one thing.  Allowing yourself to be screwed over if the gun was working when you traded and isn't working, now, is quite another.  No reason to be a patsy or allow yourself to be taken advantage of when you have no way of knowing what the other guy might have done to bugger up the gun since he has had it.  If it was functioning when you traded and isn't now, it sounds like a good bet that he has screwed the gun up, somehow, and wants you to eat his screw up.  That just comes down to how well you know the other guy and how much you trust what he says.  If it were a friend I trusted, I would do what I could to make it right.  If it were a stranger or someone I didn't trust then my feeling would likely be, "Too bad, so sad, buh bye."  Just my :2cents:  and the reason I won't sell or trade a gun I own in a private sale.  I generally don't turn loose of a gun once I have it, anyhow, and if I do - even though I might get a few more dollars out of it in a private sale as opposed to trading it at an LGS (or not) - it really isn't worth the potential hassle, to me.  Of course, that is also why I would rarely buy anything but a very low dollar gun in a private sale - because if it doesn't work properly I like to know that I can go back to the LGS to get help making it right.

Edited August 12, 2014 by JAB

[Tncobra]

My policy.

I will buy back any firearm I sell, period.

Minus damage of course.

[45guy]

You never know what was done to the firearm after he made the trade. He could have left it on the roof of his car and drove off. And sure once it hit the road a few times it may not work. He may have taken it a part and lost a piece. Who knows. I normally check the function of a weapon before trading. If not and I get screwed it is on me.

[runco]

My policy.

I will buy back any firearm I sell, period.

Minus damage of course.

That was my policy too with girlfriends in my late teens and early 20s.  I recently checked facebook on all my old flames, and wow that definitely is not my policy now.  Well maybe one or two would be okay.