I don't bring this up lightly...

[rookhawk]

It’s also not priced at the cost of a “bespoke quality Rigby”.

It’s an amateur reworked gun that is a Merkel. Making any comparison to a Rigby is not a proper analogy. $20k+ puts you in a world of high grade London extractor guns, Birmingham ejector guns, and Heyms. If you’d like to make analogies, compare and contrast to those of a similar price point.

 

[Flewis]

Not picking sides here. All seemed to be going well until the phone call between op and rb where rb said he was threatened. None of us know what was said so we just don’t know the whole story. I do know that this post puts both sides in a bad light.

 

[skydiver386]

The photos were clearly not adequate to show potential buyers the true condition of the rifle. I can understand poor photos the first go round, but after all of this, then trying to do the same thing on another site with equally poor photos?

A flash photo would have shown the true extent of the damage. Is anyone really going to convince me the man has no idea how to turn on the flash so a clear, bright photo can be taken?

Just telling someone the rifle has been hunted with and saying it has a few scratches doesn't cover this one.