AVOID "Bud's Gun Shop" On Gunbroker! BAD DEALER!!!

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The following comes from a member of BSB -

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Just wanted to let everyone know the results I had from spending $1400.00 on a Weatherby 340 Accumark with "Buds Gun Shop".

The gun was advertised by them as coming with an Accubrake. I confirmed this with them by phone. The gun arrived without a brake and their response was "send it back, but we'll charge a 20% restocking fee". That's almost $300.00 - the brake costs only $150.00 factory installed.

They admit their add was wrong. Their excuse? Their ads are not always accurate because they post alot of them, I should have known that. Check out 41432244 and remember - they admit what you see (and read) isn't what you get.

I asked them to reduce the cost by the amount of the factory installed brake - and I'd even pay the shipping to Weatherby to have it done - and they said no. They offered to drop the 20%, but I'd still be out transfer & other costs - about $75.00.

All I wanted was what they advertised and what I paid for - what could be simpler?

Finally, they wrote an e-mail threatening to change their positive feedback on me to negative if I posted complaint. Safe to say no more "Buds Gun Shop" for me - ever.

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below is a link to the discussion in question:

http://www.baitshopboyz.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9720&PN=1&TPN=1

Isn't that false advertising, or bait & switch.
Heck yeah it's there fault.
Since they had the ad wrong they should either pay for the accubrake installation, give you enough refund to cover it, or take the rifle back and pay shipping and any other costs.

While their at it they need to get their head out of their 4th point of contact aka A#$.
Report them to gunbroker too.

I would give this a try!

http://www.gunbroker.com/User/FraudClaimProcess.asp

http://www.gunbroker.com/User/ToolsForBuyers.asp

If you used the mail to pay them, I believe you can sic the Feds on them.

Even though I have had good success selling and buying online the more I search through Gunbrokers the more discouraged I become. It seems like 99% of the listings are from stores trying to sell new items for way more than what they cost locally. I suspect they operate under the hope they can profit on uneducated buyers as far as price is concerned. If they would change the way they operated and charge for listings that didnt sell I think they would weed out a lot of the people trying to advertise for free.