GunBroker.com 'Saved Search' Glitch

sheepherder · 06-10-2013, 10:17 AM

I found this out the hard way...

If you have a problem with your GunBroker.com account, and it gets suspended for any reason and restored, your Saved Searches/Email Notification will all revert to "Do Not Receive Emails"...

Attached is a screen grab of me changing all my Saved Searches back to "Receive Emails"...

This has happened to me twice; both times because my BlackBerry browser connects to the Internet through an app called "Tether", which uses Verizon/InfoLink as its server...And several anti-spam programs/services [like 'SpamCop'] have blacklisted InfoLink and GB subscribes to one of those services, and will suspend your account for using that server...Took me a while to track down the problem and identify it...

My BlackBerry browser is much faster than my home PC connection...But the downtime is 3-4 days while GB checks my account and determines I'm not delinquent...And then restores it...

It's not a problem for everybody...But it might be a good idea to check your saved Searches occasionally and see if they're still good...

sheepherder · 11-27-2013, 09:32 PM

My Gunbroker.com account was suspended again today, for as long as it took me to email their service...Like, five minutes...

It seems I have a $1.00 balance in my account; a 'refund' from a seller who 'overcharged' me $1.00 on shipping a firearm to my FFL LGS...And a plus balance seems to throw them all off...

So now I have to go back in and re-check all my 'Saved Searches' to 'Instant Email Notification' again...

06-10-2013, 10:17 AM	#1
sheepherder Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: ...on the 'ol Erie Canal... Posts: 8,182 Thanks: 1,400 Thanked 4,441 Times in 2,329 Posts	GunBroker.com 'Saved Search' Glitch I found this out the hard way... If you have a problem with your GunBroker.com account, and it gets suspended for any reason and restored, your Saved Searches/Email Notification will all revert to "Do Not Receive Emails"... Attached is a screen grab of me changing all my Saved Searches back to "Receive Emails"... This has happened to me twice; both times because my BlackBerry browser connects to the Internet through an app called "Tether", which uses Verizon/InfoLink as its server...And several anti-spam programs/services [like 'SpamCop'] have blacklisted InfoLink and GB subscribes to one of those services, and will suspend your account for using that server...Took me a while to track down the problem and identify it... My BlackBerry browser is much faster than my home PC connection...But the downtime is 3-4 days while GB checks my account and determines I'm not delinquent...And then restores it... It's not a problem for everybody...But it might be a good idea to check your saved Searches occasionally and see if they're still good... Attached Thumbnails __________________ I like my coffee the way I like my women... ...Cold and bitter...

11-27-2013, 09:32 PM	#2
sheepherder Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: ...on the 'ol Erie Canal... Posts: 8,182 Thanks: 1,400 Thanked 4,441 Times in 2,329 Posts	My Gunbroker.com account was suspended again today, for as long as it took me to email their service...Like, five minutes... It seems I have a $1.00 balance in my account; a 'refund' from a seller who 'overcharged' me $1.00 on shipping a firearm to my FFL LGS...And a plus balance seems to throw them all off... So now I have to go back in and re-check all my 'Saved Searches' to 'Instant Email Notification' again... __________________ I like my coffee the way I like my women... ...Cold and bitter... Last edited by sheepherder; 09-30-2015 at 09:25 AM.