Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread

[Jaylordofwaargh]

17 minutes ago, Adolf Hamster said:

 

 

These two do not belong in the same paragraph, let alone sentence.

Um, I didn't think I needed to add the /s here on Mack's but here we are...?

[Sniper780]

The use of someone else's pictures when it come selling an item, especially at  that asking price is a major Faux pas on the sellers part.  A simple google reverse image search shows the pictures were taken directly from a 2014 blog post from this web site https://timmmk2.militaryblog.jp/e582128.html 

Has the hallmarks of a potential scammer.

Edited August 26, 2023 by Sniper780

[Tackle]

3 minutes ago, Sniper780 said:

The use of someone else's pictures when it come selling an item, especially at  that asking price is a major Faux pas on the sellers part.  A simple google reverse image search shows the pictures were taken directly from a 2014 blog post from this web site https://timmmk2.militaryblog.jp/e582128.html 

Has the hallmarks of a potential scammer.

He's got two other ads up for guns, both listed as excessive fps for mainland Britain, & especially Northern Ireland which has a lower fps limit for all airsoft guns. 

Are you able to check the pics on his other ads ?, to ensure they're not nicked from someone else ? 

[Galvatron]

22 minutes ago, Tackle said:

He's got two other ads up for guns, both listed as excessive fps for mainland Britain, & especially Northern Ireland which has a lower fps limit for all airsoft guns. 

Are you able to check the pics on his other ads ?, to ensure they're not nicked from someone else ? 

I called out the G&G CM18 on the FPS. I found no matches on Google or Tineye reverse image search but I'm still suspicious.

 

The marketing blurb looks manually typed out and badly done. Unless G&G made a horrible typo of its own, I would assume the gearbox has 8mm bearings, not 8mm ball bearings.

 

There are a lot of decent upgrades in that pic yet he hasn't specified them to try and make the listing look more attractive. For the price, it looks far too good to be true to me.

[Sniper780]

1 hour ago, Tackle said:

He's got two other ads up for guns, both listed as excessive fps for mainland Britain, & especially Northern Ireland which has a lower fps limit for all airsoft guns. 

Are you able to check the pics on his other ads ?, to ensure they're not nicked from someone else ? 

 

 

This AD pictures are directly taken from another sales post from 28-08-2022 located in Bruges, Belgium from airsoftbazzaar. 

https://www.airsoftbazaar.com/nl/marktplaats/replicas/aeg/fully-upgraded-gg-cm18-mod1-dst-met-tit-xrdsfp 

 

These pictures are also from another AD from the USA similar user name but rif located in Michigan City, Indiana according to the AD  https://www.airsoftsociety.com/threads/scar-l-from-tokyo-marui-electric.167975/ 

The seller has in fact posted all of the RIF they are selling here on the US airsoft society forum  
This is their public account for that forum https://www.airsoftsociety.com/search/22252/ so they appear to be live in Portrush in the  United Kingdom and also living in Michigan City, Indiana.  

If anyone has an active account for the Airsoft society forum if you could give them a heads up as well that would be greatly appreciated. 

Edited August 26, 2023 by Sniper780

[Galvatron]

6 hours ago, Sniper780 said:

If anyone has an active account for the Airsoft society forum if you could give them a heads up as well that would be greatly appreciated. 

 

I joined up to report the seller and the listings. I'd hate to see anyone fall victim to the scam.

[Matt.2504]

Dreamer alert:

£300 for a TM Glock 17 with mags. Plus £20 postage! 

[Spuggy1uk]

£54 Used including postage...

 

or £39.99 New - (£43.84 including postage) from Tactical-kit.co.uk

 

 

[JimFromHorsham]

 

interesting , apparently retailing on here doesn’t incur any defence costs but once they go on a website it does ??‍♂️

[Guest JinxDuh]

42 minutes ago, JimFromHorsham said:

 

interesting , apparently retailing on here doesn’t incur any defence costs but once they go on a website it does ??‍♂️

 

My guess is because Ukara requires a payment as a physical retailer to check defence and to my knowledge only retailers (Including sites) can access the Ukara database directly - Meaning, they're wanting to set up a shop, and get the customers to essentially "chip in" so to speak on the cost to access the database.

[JimFromHorsham]

16 minutes ago, JinxDuh said:

 

My guess is because Ukara requires a payment as a physical retailer to check defence and to my knowledge only retailers (Including sites) can access the Ukara database directly - Meaning, they're wanting to set up a shop, and get the customers to essentially "chip in" so to speak on the cost to access the database.

But they are clearly a retailer , retailing RIF so …. No checks today , maybe checks tomorrow  ??‍♂️ 

 

 

[Guest JinxDuh]

16 minutes ago, JimFromHorsham said:

But they are clearly a retailer

Excuse my ignorance, but other than stating they'll have a website up soon, what stands out as them definitely being a retailer? 

[JimFromHorsham]

6 minutes ago, JinxDuh said:

Excuse my ignorance, but other than stating they'll have a website up soon, what stands out as them definitely being a retailer? 

them saying they’ll have a website soon where defence checks will be in place at extra cost ?
Two listings for a dozen brand new RIF’s in each ad ?

The use of “we” implying more than one person .

 

just a guess really . 

Edited September 3, 2023 by JimFromHorsham

[Herrgh]

 

I have an irrational distrust of any retailer who is lazy with capitalisation. I see it in a lot of places in the airsoft world.

[Tackle]

44 minutes ago, JimFromHorsham said:

them saying they’ll have a website soon where defence checks will be in place at extra cost ?
Two listings for a dozen brand new RIF’s in each ad ?

The use of “we” implying more than one person .

 

just a guess really . 

Don't "retailers" need permission to sell/advertise on here ?, rule 10 states:

Second hand airsoft-relevant items only. 

 

They're clearly not second hand as such, but if new are they offered with any warranty etc.? 

[Cannonfodder]

7 hours ago, Herrgh said:

 

I have an irrational distrust of any retailer who is lazy with capitalisation. I see it in a lot of places in the airsoft world.

Not irrational at all to me. If they can't be arsed get basic stuff right then it makes me wonder what else they can't be arsed to do 

[Colin Allen]

3 hours ago, Cannonfodder said:

Not irrational at all to me. If they can't be arsed get basic stuff right then it makes me wonder what else they can't be arsed to do 

The brown M&Ms test.

[Rogerborg]

28 minutes ago, Colin Allen said:

The brown M&Ms test.

 

Huh, I'd heard of the clause but not the reason for it.  Thanks, that's fascinating.

 

Well, best of luck to our budding entrepreneur, selling for £5 less than retail.  Sure, you don't get a warranty, but you do get an orange tip!

[rj1986]

£750 worth of stuff for £700

 

https://www.usedairsoft.co.uk/rif-s/electric-powered/tokyo-marui-mk18-ngrs_i50717

[Jedi_Master]

12 hours ago, JimFromHorsham said:

them saying they’ll have a website soon where defence checks will be in place at extra cost ?
Two listings for a dozen brand new RIF’s in each ad ?

The use of “we” implying more than one person .

 

just a guess really . 

 

Selling multiple (bulk order) of the same gun appears to be a retail enterprise and not a normal airsoft player.

[Dan Robinson]

1 hour ago, Colin Allen said:

The brown M&Ms test.

 

Had heard that story along with a load of others about musician's "riders" from my then flat mate who was a drummer - but never realised that was the reason for it.

 

 

Reminds me of a job where I had to get on a flat roof of a converted warehouse in London Docklands where there was a 3m balcony around the building for the top floor apartments.  I'm still of the age where if I hurt myself doing something stupid its no one else's fault but my own - and that the same should apply to everyone.  Hence I was rather miffed at having to write a risk assessment for the management company to go up there to confirm something ahead of a project...  The writing of this thing would take longer than the trip onto the roof.

 

So I decided to have some fun and wrote all sorts of things in there along the lines of "shall access the roof paying all due care and attention to ill tempered low flying seagulls and the urge to take a running jump".

 

It was obvious this was never read as I got the go ahead; and was ironically nearly knocked out by the heavy roof hatch as one of the gas struts had failed and it fell on my head.  Something I didn't mention checking LOL.

Edited September 4, 2023 by Dan Robinson

[Cannonfodder]

I see the ads from the upcoming shop have been removed and the poster has relisted them leaving out the bits about having a job lot and opening a shop soon. Looks dodgy as fuck and definitely puts me off buying anything from them

[JimFromHorsham]

40 minutes ago, Cannonfodder said:

I see the ads from the upcoming shop have been removed and the poster has relisted them leaving out the bits about having a job lot and opening a shop soon. Looks dodgy as fuck and definitely puts me off buying anything from them

not a great start is it ? Why not just join up , say hi we are so&so&co , website coming soon , great prices etc … all they’ve done so far (for anyone that’s noticed ) is look lazy and shady as fook. 

[Cannonfodder]

10 minutes ago, JimFromHorsham said:

not a great start is it ? Why not just join up , say hi we are so&so&co , website coming soon , great prices etc … all they’ve done so far (for anyone that’s noticed ) is look lazy and shady as fook. 

I'm guessing they don't want to pay for advertising and/or the "shop" is their spare room/garage and admiting they're running a business from home would mean paying higher council tax.

[Colin Allen]

It is new, but has been sitting around for five years and has some shit weathering.