Rogerborg

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.

I've just noticed this, it's ace. Now there's no sudden glare when I tab between AFUK, Twitter, Facebook and PornHub. 👍

[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.

Taiwangun do wholesale to other sellers, and shipments seem to have been all over the place recently, so I guess retailers will source whatever they can, wherever they can.

That RK74 is a pretty nice paintjob, and Partizan looks like decent camo. I mean, it's no Flecktarn, but what is?

Another chancer flogging used gear as "brand new". Probably licked them all then put them back in the packaging, ought to be banned. 😠

We have no way of knowing that a person with a current UKARA intends to use RIFs for skirmishing in the future. That could apply to someone with or without UKARA. Despite what I've just said, I do understand and agree with your caution. UKARA is our best defence (short of solid evidence of theatrical intent). It's just not a great indication of future intent. I may be a little salty about this because my UKARA has expired, and rather ominously my site has just set all its Facebook groups to private. 😧

That's... rather extreme. As @Tommikka notes, if you come to the attention of the State on your way to or from a site, then regardless of whether you're in possession of an IF or a RIF, you have to provide proof of a reasonable excuse for that. If you can't, you've got a bigger problem than the VCRA. If you can ("On my way to/from an airsoft skirmish at Extant Airsoft, here are their details", I'd be astonished if the conversation then preceded to how or where or when you got a RIF. We won't know until we have some test cases, but I can't see anything relevant.

I'd feel safer selling to someone who could provide professional indemnity or third party liability cover for a film or theatrical company. That's a bold assumption. I'm struggling to find case law on the VCRA and sellings RIFs, but one interesting and not entirely unrelated piece of case law is Cooke vs DPP in which a chap was appealing his conviction for selling "[a] considerable quantity of police caps, helmets, badges and bags" contrary to the Police Act 1996, section 90 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/16/section/90 https://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2015/3312.html Conviction overturned, because "lawful purpose" could be as broad as "theatrical, film or TV performance by actors (amateur and professional) in the role of a police officer; wearing at fancy dress parties and similar events; collection and display in a museum; private collection for personal enjoyment". Now, that doesn't apply to us directly, our defences are more narrowly defined. But the standard of proof isn't, and in a criminal case you only have to adduce reasonable doubt. It's clear that their Lordships were minded to be generous in allowing defences. Further, UKARA gives some evidence of what you have done. It says nothing about what you intend to do in the future, which is the standard of the S37 defence. We've got a Home Office circular from some unnamed civil servant saying that they think a scheme like UKARA is sufficient, but it's not in the legislation itself and a court wouldn't be bound by that opinion. Tl;dr version, if someone could show me that they'd played airsoft and were intending to play it again (booking would be best) then I'd be happy selling. A current UKARA number would be a bonus, but having one only shows that you played within the last year - it could have been 364 days ago, which is thin gruel for showing future intent. And right now there will be loads of people with expired UKARAs who are genuinely starting to play again. All that said, this is a very valid concern, and they even ask about arrests, let alone convictions. I imagine anything with "firearm" in it would be a big red flag. I don't condemn you at all for being cautious, I'm only speaking for what I'd accept. Well, we're not committing an offence. Other than being time wasting dicks.

A good question. Barrel, motor, disable the recoil, flat hop (and figure out how the previous retailer messed up the Maxx hop). The other question is why you'd mention the cost of the original gnu, plus what you've spent on replacing parts and removing one of the big features of the original gnu. What's the retained value of a part or a function that's not there any more? If you're citing the value added by Negative Airsoft, remember that Luke's advice is to buy a CYMA AK and clean it.

"never seen a game. just back garden shooting." I'm just picturing him kneeling on those knee pads, wearing his mesh facepro, 3-round-bursting away at a cardboard box, with a sight-protector on his gun. Sadder than pineapple on pizza. "All in all I'm looking at around £800 for this as to date this rifle has cost me in excess of £1500." How the actual... oh, right, Kingdom of Airsoft. I wonder how much it will cost for Luke at Negative Airsoft to fix it... I might actually pay to watch the rant video.

Well, it's got that "actually exists and is for sale" premium on it. Plenty of places are looking pretty thin on stock at the moment.

"i have never fired it. i dont know if the previous owner had used it or not i cant remember, bought it 8 years ago. as far as i know it is in full working order when it was sold to me" = "almost certainly not working now"

That's not an Uzi, that's a phased plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range.

When Luke at Negative Airsoft got to the end of his VFC MP7 build and said "Put this technology inside an Uzi", I howled in agreement. Please make it happen.

I guess if you find a buyer who gasps "That's exactly what I've always dreamed of! But can't be bothered spending 20 minutes fitting myself!" then you're quids in. It's pretty optimistic though. Tru dat. I'm currently turning a CYMA CM.123 AEP (target market likely 0) into a WH40K laspistol. In the unlikely event that I can be bothered to do a good enough job, I might be able to flog it on Etsy to a cosplayer who doesn't care if it pews or not. But in the airsoft world, the target market is 1, me. Don't let your dreams be memes, but don't plan your retirement on them either.

That's far from the worst paint job I've seen. The issue is that people pay for gnus to be customised to their specification. He's expecting someone to pay for his enjoyment.

Aside, how do you chrono a tri-shot? The Depot doesn't, they've waved me through several times, with variants of "Sod that, we've never seen a springer come close to 350fps anyway". Put one BB in since each piston is separate?