|
S |
M |
T |
W |
T |
F |
S |
|
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
12
|
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
19
|
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
26
|
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
|
|
|
|
|
0 members (),
682
guests, and
6
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums10
Topics40,438
Posts575,407
Members14,712
| |
Most Online32,084
Jun 14th, 2026
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 865 Likes: 45
Sidelock
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 865 Likes: 45 |
These guys who use AI to write their description leave me cold.
“This shotgun retains its original side by side configuration” - whew! I’m sure glad it didn’t morph into an O/U Remington “1889”. It’s actually a 1900.
|
|
3 members like this:
Stanton Hillis, Ted Schefelbein, Geoff Roznak |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 11,526 Likes: 1895
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 11,526 Likes: 1895 |
He has three handguns and that shotgun for sale. Almost looks like a guy who set up a Gunbroker account to unload his friends guns after he died, for the widow. But, he doesn’t know anymore about the guns than her.
Worse, to me, anyway, are the big name guys with big dollar guns, who photograph them without any details that might help the purchaser, no pictures of the flats, no weight or barrel length, chamber length, wall thickness or even a vague idea of whether the gun remains in proof or not.
You are selling guns. Would it kill you to have more complete information in the advertising?
Usually, they play dumb after you point that out.
Best,
Ted
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 3,946 Likes: 1333
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 3,946 Likes: 1333 |
Reading between the lines becomes a survival skill at some point. I think Ted is spot-on here, this fellow is absolutely clueless about the subject matter of which he writes.
Come to think about it, maybe it is AI after all.
When I remember all of the hard lessons I have learned over the many years of researching, searching-for and then discovering these obscure (and now older) artifacts I have to wonder what the hell ever motivated me to do any of it in the first place? If I was even remotely interested in art and history then I should have just focused on something like church architecture instead. It would have saved me tons of time and trouble and of-course...strained relationships.
The impetuousness of unfocused lust and youth, eh?
My bride used to get a little snippy about it all but she has finally become fairly-well inured to it, for which I am eternally grateful. She has pretty-much the same response to my old car(s) and even my bamboo fly rods, seeing them now as part & parcel to enduring my blessed presence and ever-sunny disposition.
|
|
1 member likes this:
playing hooky |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 865 Likes: 45
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 865 Likes: 45 |
Poetry Lloyd3, pure poetry
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 14,667 Likes: 351
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 14,667 Likes: 351 |
If we think the seller of this Remington is an idiot, think about those who are bidding on it.
|
|
2 members like this:
Richard Hale, graybeardtmm3 |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 1,813 Likes: 223
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 1,813 Likes: 223 |
Well, it has 11 bids
?
John
Arrieta
John Boyd
Quality Arms Inc
Houston, TX
713-818-2971
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 223 Likes: 49
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 223 Likes: 49 |
His description's better than most of the auction companies....
|
|
1 member likes this:
Geoff Roznak |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 2,327 Likes: 153
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 2,327 Likes: 153 |
Sure glad they noted the “two round capacity”
Who’d a thunk it!
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2018
Posts: 505 Likes: 176
Sidelock
|
|
Sidelock
Joined: Apr 2018
Posts: 505 Likes: 176 |
AI is the newest manifestation of an old programmer's adage - garbage in = garbage out.
"it's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
lewis carroll, Alice in Wonderland
|
|
|
|
|
