AIRGUNS STOLEN IN TRANSIT

Its pretty clear there are 2 guns that went missing in transit. One post stats customer opened box at home and nothing was in the box. The dimension of the box is 46x17x7 and weighs 28 lbs. I'm giving the customer the benefit of the doubt he didn't notice the 9 lb missing from the box. Another post on page 2 stated one was missing from Fedex and one from UPS. Sorry you think it might be a hoax and the silly WANTED poster.

~Darryl
I think people were looking for a date and location. Not an address just a general part of the country. Lack of information combined with the poster makes it look like the "Stolen from Charlies Used Cars" advertisement.

So the 9 lb gun was missing but the other 19 lbs was still in the box?

You seem pretty uppity about people questioning when you caused it to be questioned with the cartoon poster an no other info on top of posting this in industry news.
 
Darryl was the case still in the box? Tool kit and all, or just the rifle missing? You said 9 lbs missing from 28 lbs, so I’m assuming just the rifle was taken.

Either way, it still sucks man.
Unfortunately nothing was left but the box. See customer supplied picture.
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I think people were looking for a date and location. Not an address just a general part of the country. Lack of information combined with the poster makes it look like the "Stolen from Charlies Used Cars" advertisement.

So the 9 lb gun was missing but the other 19 lbs was still in the box?

You seem pretty uppity about people questioning when you caused it to be questioned with the cartoon poster an no other info on top of posting this in industry news.
Yes, per the customer the 9.5 lb gun was not in the case. The location was San Diego California and the package was delivered to a UPS store and signed for by an employee. The employee stated to me that the customer has been a customer for 3 years and has had several boxes like mine shipped to them and has never had an issue.
 
Yes, per the customer the 9.5 lb gun was not in the case. The location was San Diego California and the package was delivered to a UPS store and signed for by an employee. The employee stated to me that the customer has been a customer for 3 years and has had several boxes like mine shipped to them and has never had an issue.
Thanks for adding info but it should've been in the original post.
I'm guilty of reading things in a negative light when that may not have been the intention. We live and learn.
 
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Thank for adding info but it should've been in the original post.
I'm guilty of reading things in a negative light when that may not have been the intention. We live and learn.
I'm new and uneducated on these darn forum's. Thanks for helping me out. Luke is our social media person and I'll probably catch hell for posting.

~Darryl
 
I'm new and uneducated on these darn forum's. Thanks for helping me out. Luke is our social media person and I'll probably catch hell for posting.

~Darryl
OK, I’ll cut you some slack. Hopefully there’s not going to be a next time, but if there is, include as much info as possible, just like if you were making out a police report. Dates, times, places, names etc.
It would have really saved all the vectors the post took.
 
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Weird man. Im envisioning someone taking a rifle out of the case, and from there what? Walk around with this gun out in the open? Those shipping boxes, the ones used to ship guns, aren’t an everyday box, to just grab and slide a gun in really quick like. So to me it just doesn’t sound right. If someone between Skout shipping it and the owner with the shipping box in hand stole a gun, it would be out in the open for all to see.

The plastic bottle valve opener tool, that’s one on a neck harness. If one didn’t pay attention to it, it looks like a little memorabilia thing, for buying a Skout, not an actual handy dandy tool to hang on your neck. That’s what I thought when I first opened up my case, and it wasn’t till later that I figured it was a tool. It’s funny that that’s also missing. It’s as if whoever stole the gun, knew all the important pieces to take along with the gun.
 
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You are correct. The label does have senders name on it and under the name (owner) it has GoG Paintball and our address. The picture below shows the brown box with Fragile tape around the center and fiber tape sealing the ends. All airguns go out this way.
~Darryl

It is weird to me though, that just the rifle have been taken, it is after all a substantial item, not something you pocket or hide under a jacket,,,, maybe not even a trench coat.

If i try and revind my mind back to when i was a parasite, i would have run with the whole thing for sure.
I agree it seems very weird. I guess possibly fedex ground is different. However I know now days on the freight side of things most docks of any size have cameras everywhere out there. Would be really hard to steal something that substantial. A facility can really narrow down the time by the tracking info that the gun was on the dock and the video could be reviewed. Management does not like things like this happening at all. Its a metric/numbers driven system totally and these loses don’t look good for them. If it comes down to a driver that would be even easier to figure out.
 
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I am also in San Diego, so you have another set of eye on the look out.
Have the consignee place pictures at local gun ranges ..it is a very distinct rifle.
UPS will pay it off, but it sucks not to have the rifle as delivered.
Hope it is found ...but i still think the theft was local to the manufacturer's area
Mike
 
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How do you not notice a weight difference when the package was signed for? The rifle is over 10lbs?
Extraction and retaped...sounds more like local hub problem than down the line
Yeah, not noticing the weight discrepancy makes it a little sketchy, like the customer might be lying.
 
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So, from the picture, he just got the empty case and a box? That’s maybe 5 lbs. He would have noticed that. Sounds like there’s a possible 2 for 1 deal brewing here.
I’ve been thinking this since the first guy kinda eluded to it. How exciting does a grown man have to be to tote basically an empty box back to his house. Was he thinking the whole time that he might have struck gold by getting Scouts first titanium model?
 
Darryl, Im going to make a mental note and attempt to help you locate these stolen airguns!
2 SKOUTS STOLEN - ORANGE & PURPLE.
2 SKOUTS STOLEN - ORANGE & PURPLE.

Any time I see a ORANGE OR PURPLE SKOUT, in person and/or posted online, I will refer back to this post and check serial numbers.

Instead of badgering you with things like:

1. WHO?
2. WHAT?
3. THE WANTED POSTER IS SILLY
4. WHEN?
5. THIS IS FAKE.
6. WHERE?
7. WHY?
8. TIME OF DAY?
9. COLOR OF BOX?
10. MARKINGS ON BOX?
11. CARRIER?
12. WANT TO HEAR A STORY THAT HAPPENED TO ME ?
13. ANY OTHER GUNS?
14. PHOTOS OF TAPE USED?
15. NEED MORE PHOTOS.
16. WEIGHT?

2 SKOUTS STOLEN - ORANGE & PURPLE.
2 SKOUTS STOLEN - ORANGE & PURPLE.



I do not care for thiefs, and hope these are recovered quickly.
Im here to help!


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Darryl, Im going to make a mental note and attempt to help you locate these stolen airguns!
2 SKOUTS STOLEN - ORANGE & PURPLE.
2 SKOUTS STOLEN - ORANGE & PURPLE.

Any time I see a ORANGE OR PURPLE SKOUT, in person and/or posted online, I will refer back to this post and check serial numbers.

Instead of badgering you with things like:

1. WHO?
2. WHAT?
3. THE WANTED POSTER IS SILLY
4. WHEN?
5. THIS IS FAKE.
6. WHERE?
7. WHY?
8. TIME OF DAY?
9. COLOR OF BOX?
10. MARKINGS ON BOX?
11. CARRIER?
12. WANT TO HEAR A STORY THAT HAPPENED TO ME ?
13. ANY OTHER GUNS?
14. PHOTOS OF TAPE USED?
15. NEED MORE PHOTOS.
16. WEIGHT?

2 SKOUTS STOLEN - ORANGE & PURPLE.
2 SKOUTS STOLEN - ORANGE & PURPLE.



I do not care for thiefs, and hope these are recovered quickly.
Im here to help!


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Wow...
I guess trying to help with business to business shipping and packaging advice is not appreciated in your world..
Of course you didn't waste Darryl's time by listing the "overview" ..

We are All trying to help in any way we can, the longer this thread stays up the more exposure it gets.
So you do you amigo, and hopefully you solve this for Skout....

Sorry Darryl, this guy just rubbed me the wrong way....
I'll stay out of this thread from here on...