...then we could trust the ads we see in the classifieds and used items would command higher prices prices Why?
Because he's honest about the items he sells, and if everyone were like him we'd be able to buy other's goods with confidence rather than trepidation. Trust commands higher prices, trepidation leads to lower offers.
Alas, while many are honest brokers just like Tominco, some are just a**holes waiting for the next sucker to come along.
A case in point of someone behaving badly is the ad for the regulator I purchased a while back that had supposedly been bought new and "only removed from the box for testing". Once I received the somewhat expensive item though, I knew I'd been had.
The picture posted in the ad looks ok (above), but had been carefully framed to hide the truth (below):
In the second pic you can see that one of the two gauge faces was so bent out of shape that the unit was useless because the needle would hit the face and stop right there. The internals behind the face were also bent out of position (God only knows what kind of abuse it took to do this) and the gauge was trash. The seller at first tried to tell me that it "...looks fine and works fine". I called BS on that and sent him a closeup of the gauge (right side, next to the good unit for comparison, you can see the needle stuck where it contacts the face), pointing out that there was no chance the regulator was useable in that condition. Once you get suspicious and know where to look, you can circle back, expand the original ad photo and juuust barely make out the bent gauge face.
His offer was to send me 10 whole bucks (!) for my trouble of needing to disassemble and repair the falsely represented unit, on the premise that I could get a new gauge off of eBay for that price. I looked on eBay though and there were no gauges identical to the one that needed replacing. Not at any price.
The $10 so-called offer to make good on the sale would only buy the cheapest POS gauges available, made God-knows-where, so I took a pass on those. He wouldn't spring even a measly extra $5 for something marginally better than the very cheapest units available though, so I told him that he could keep his $10, because that offer in light of my own time and trouble to repair his misrepresented junk merchandise was an insult.
Never mind the fact that I would have to replace BOTH of the gauges to keep a matched set on the regulator.
A tip of the hat then to Tominco and others like him. What a shame it is that some of our other AirGun "brothers" don't have that same level of integrity when dealing with their fellow hobbyists.
Because he's honest about the items he sells, and if everyone were like him we'd be able to buy other's goods with confidence rather than trepidation. Trust commands higher prices, trepidation leads to lower offers.
Alas, while many are honest brokers just like Tominco, some are just a**holes waiting for the next sucker to come along.
A case in point of someone behaving badly is the ad for the regulator I purchased a while back that had supposedly been bought new and "only removed from the box for testing". Once I received the somewhat expensive item though, I knew I'd been had.
The picture posted in the ad looks ok (above), but had been carefully framed to hide the truth (below):
In the second pic you can see that one of the two gauge faces was so bent out of shape that the unit was useless because the needle would hit the face and stop right there. The internals behind the face were also bent out of position (God only knows what kind of abuse it took to do this) and the gauge was trash. The seller at first tried to tell me that it "...looks fine and works fine". I called BS on that and sent him a closeup of the gauge (right side, next to the good unit for comparison, you can see the needle stuck where it contacts the face), pointing out that there was no chance the regulator was useable in that condition. Once you get suspicious and know where to look, you can circle back, expand the original ad photo and juuust barely make out the bent gauge face.
His offer was to send me 10 whole bucks (!) for my trouble of needing to disassemble and repair the falsely represented unit, on the premise that I could get a new gauge off of eBay for that price. I looked on eBay though and there were no gauges identical to the one that needed replacing. Not at any price.
The $10 so-called offer to make good on the sale would only buy the cheapest POS gauges available, made God-knows-where, so I took a pass on those. He wouldn't spring even a measly extra $5 for something marginally better than the very cheapest units available though, so I told him that he could keep his $10, because that offer in light of my own time and trouble to repair his misrepresented junk merchandise was an insult.
Never mind the fact that I would have to replace BOTH of the gauges to keep a matched set on the regulator.
A tip of the hat then to Tominco and others like him. What a shame it is that some of our other AirGun "brothers" don't have that same level of integrity when dealing with their fellow hobbyists.
