Rogerborg

Ah, but the magazine has never been sullied with gas, so the seals will be good and hard and compact now, not all soft and expanded like used seals.

I'd wager a promise to the missus to clear out some of his toys is responsible for him listing it. Perhaps she found the original receipts... ?

I have to give them credit for both their honesty and audacity. Not credit in the sense of money though. I would never, ever give them money, the cheeky feckers.

Grab a bargain! Only full retail price, but wait, the difference is that you'll have to come and collect it in person. "I don't have time to go out any game for now, and I might buy an aeg insted of this". AEGs give you more time to play airsoft, it seems.

Not every date gets past step 1.

Wait, did I miss some drama?

Sorry to have to say this (yet again) but I would bin that bloody thing before it explodes or burns your house down. We've had report after report after report about them failing. When it says "NEVER LEAVE CHARGER UNATTENDED WHILE IN USE" it really means it. A 2A charger should charge a 1.6Ah battery in under an hour. If it's been shoving current in for 9 hours it's been cooking it. However, I'd hazard a guess that the battery is fully charged, but that the charger can't recognise that. Nimh is a bit of a sod to charge. The charger doesn't know what voltage the battery is meant to be, all it can do is to shove current in until it detects the battery resistance rising sharply when it's full. If it fails to spot that rise happening, it's liable to just keep pumping energy in indefinitely. If you stick with it, only use it for under an hour, and disconnect it if the battery start to heat up. Or take the plunge and get yourself onto better technology. Lipo cells are really cheap now (see HobbyKing) and can deliver higher current in a smaller package. You'll not see much difference between a 7.4V lipo and a 9.6V nimh. On chargers, we're liking the SkyRC S65 or the IDST Q6 nano at the moment.

Ace, great to hear it wasn't anything serious. That's a pretty smart spring change system too.

Not all heroes wear khaki. Or maybe you do, I don't know. Either way, thanks for doing this, I wish eBay would make it a bit easier.

Big oofs, that's awful. I really wish eBay allowed contacting bidders, just for circumstances like this where there's no way to warn them that they're about to get ripped off. I know, "privacy", but since they won't do a damn thing about counterfeits themselves, it's a piss poor way to protect customers. I've never done it before, but I'm half tempted to register a sock account and bid a crazy amount just to try to protect these victims.

Withdrawn bid, lucky escape. I've reported it to eBay for all the good that will do. Back in the day, eBay used to let you message other bidders directly. I'd take great pleasure in sending winning muppets links to new items that cost less than what they'd just bid on a used one. Ah, good times,good times. I can see why eBay stopped allowing that.

Ah! Good call. Looks like it's a dead simple quick-change:

https://www.trijicon.com/support/product-authenticity "Please do not contact us to determine if a potential [used] purchase is authentic. We can only determine authenticity if we have the product in-hand at our factory. " That seems like rather a silly attitude. I know they've probably spoken with some lawyer who's said what lawyers will always say: "Do nothing, say nothing, that'll be $5000." But why not say "Send us a picture, and we'll answer with either 'That's definitely a fake' or 'We can't say for sure if that's a fake'. We will never say 'That's genuine' from a picture." Because it's in their interest to reduce used market sales, and protect buyers from being ripped off with fakes and then bitching about the brand.

Why? The wires are hot. The cost is in time, to see if it's locked up under compression, and if so release the ARL.

Hot wires mean power is getting to the motor. It's likely locked up with the spring under compression, and the motor armature lined up with the permanent magnets (I can science, me) so that there's not enough torque to get it moving any further. However, it will still draw more current than when it's spinning, so don't keep trying to free it up with trigger pulls and don't bypass the fuse. Cheaper to replace that than the motor! That's the theory. In principle we'll have to wait for someone who knows the practice to tell you if there's an easily accessible anti-reversal latch release on the M249 that will make this a 10 second job, or whether you're looking at disassembly to get to it. Sorry, a quick Googling doesn't turn anything up.

I'm starting to suspect that I may be a diversity hire.

Listen carefully...

Airsoft eugenics FTW. I actually agree: if you want to sell, git gud. Consider the cost and time required to set up and handle payments from the one or two volume sellers.

I haven't checked, but is he taking ads down early in order to post new ones? Also, it's 14 per account. Has anyone checked IP addresses? Not great for anyone who posts something similar just before a fresh pile-o-gunz gets dumped. I'd call caveat emptor on that. Also, giving the ongoing stocking situation, if he has something for sale that would be cheaper at a retailer if they had any, but they don't, then isn't he offering the best deal? My only real objection is if he's making it hard for folk to find other sellers. I guess that depends on whether you're visiting the facilities before or after another steaming dump.

I'd view it as a gateway for "as new never been scrimmished" sellers to drop into the forums if they want to. It's particularly funny if they go straight from the classifieds to this thread. Fair point, maybe the frequency of ad posting (not just concurrent live ads) could be dialled down a bit.

But offering it as collection only sharply reduces the potential market. I'd list the gun as postable - granted with the risks of that - and see if I could find a local buyer for the case. Regarding the risks of posting expensive toys, I wouldn't deal with someone who comes across as a professional angry man, either as a seller or a buyer.

[Checks News section for any report of a theft from a retailer] Yes, suspicious adverts are suspicious. In more important news, I made some Neapolitan pizza last night, just cooked down tomatoes, basil and mozzarella (could not find buffalo), and pre cooked the wafffer thin base at 250C on a perforated tray. Not half bad, I have to say, although I do need a pizza oven or at least a stone, or might hit it with a blow-torch next time. Mrs Borg had deep pan with pineapple, I'm looking into divorce lawyers.

Perfect for hunting bounties and dealing with Rebel scum.