Strange Happenings at Gunbroker.com

[MIKE MORRIS]

John..........I'll get the photos of them and try to get them on the forum...I may need some help though. I found out as per your instuctions how to copy from my e-mail files, so I'll try that. But if they are already in someones collection, I can't ask for them back, just hard luck on my part for trusting this guy. He even once told me he worked for Air America......I made sure at the 1st of our dealings ( met him at the Dallas gun show ) that everything was conducted business wise. After many transactions I trusted him ( my mistake ) and sent him the holsters US mail. After 2 weeks I called him and he said he " never recieved them ". I then started going by his tables at shows to see if they would happen to be there. That's when I saw the reblues/fakery on his tables. You could have knocked me over with a feather !! After that people would come by( one in particular at the Tulsa show ) and ask me about a Luger they were going to buy from him and wanted my opinion. I just told him what I had seen and warned him to be VERY careful. He came back later and thanked me as he re examined the Luger and found it to be re stamped AND re blued. I have been tricked before and really belived what I bought at the time was genuine and found out later that I was duped. There are some really good fakers/restorers out there. They have become more prevelant in the last few years and that's one of the major factors why I'm leaving collecting. I've had great fun and met some really great people, and would do it all over if I could, but there comes a time in one's life when the old adage becomes beliveable " All good things come to an end ".