First I need to to apologize to Bear, it was not you, I became proud of my state working as a state trooper and when idiots run down beautiful places like our pacific NW in absolute ignorance, over stupid talking points, It puts me on the fight.
Now for my rant.
I have written and deleted this post on 2 threads and erased it 3 or 4 times.
The other thread is about the Fx Wildcat not not making the advertised power and me wondering if they knew this when they shipped them and if they plan on fixing the problem on the existing under performing guns.
Fact is, our sport is overrun with Fraud.
My first adult airgun purchase was off the AA and I got ripped off, paid 400 bucks, total loss, the AA has not changed in those 10 years.
At that time and place in airgun history a Philippine company was taking orders and deposits on another scam, and many were ripped off.
At the same time the 22 Mrod was being sold with bad barrels, Crosman knew this and replaced disgruntled customers poor shooting barrels with the same crap and continued doing it long after we all knew what was going on. Not learning from their mistake Crosman tried to push the Rogue on us knowing full well it was also a turd.
This action led to a cottage industry replacing those bad barrels whch gave us the like of Jim Gaska who can only be described saying Jim is a honest and productive guy. But many others got in on the game that may or may not be described as honest.
Ten years have gone by and we are all in the same situation again. Diana is selling guns that we dismiss the poor quality of workmanship by calling it a “Barrel lottery.” Hatsan, Kral to name just a few are producing guns that should never have left the factory, and FX just released the above mentioned Wildcat 3 which us 20 FPE off of asvertised velocity according to a thread playing out here as I write this. And we have airgunners who have bought and paid for a hole in the ground once again. And AA Classifieds has not changed except the scammer are making inroads on our forum classifieds.
Sometimes it is pure fraud, at times poor business practices, sometimes it is factors we did not count on in life like Covid19 and death, Jack Haley and his business were affected by the latter, and I still mourn that personal loss.
But other examples border on fraudulent behavior.
If when you know your business is circling the drain, don’t take deposits or orders on guns you know will never exist. If you produce a airgun or valve or any other product with flaws, admit it, remedy the problem, fix the past items under warrantee and move on, customers will follow and industry will take notice. If your factory has poor quality control don’t just keep on pumping out flawed products, fire the buns and fix the problem.
If your parts supply dries up because workers are getting sick and dying in crowded factories, explain it to your customers, they see the news reports and will understand, but don’t expect others to die for your bottom line, and don’t criticize people and places who follow history science and fact.
So once again here we are, not reading history, not informing others of turds we have bought, Doing it to ourselves and all the newbies that will come after us.
Regards,
Roachcreek
