Originally Posted By: Flintfan
As you were walking around for 30 minutes, the "new" guy was probably looking for someone to tell him what to do with a gun he had never seen anything like before. The regular dept. manager may or may not have even been there to ask, so he may have been talking to people equally un-experienced with the level of gun you brought in. Instead of dropping 1000's of dollars on a gun they had no idea about, which in their mind if they are wrong about could very well get them fired, his best answer was to tell you they just don't buy damascus barreled guns.

So instead of worrying about potentially getting his ass chewed out by store management, the guy making about $8 an hours came up with the answer he gave you. Of course not the right answer, but one which carried little risk for someone who is new on the job and is probably hoping he won't be working there for long to begin with. Maybe he'll learn more about vintage guns in the future and be able to help you, but more likely he'll move on to bigger and better things, which is the case with most people making minimum wage. I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised with the situation you found yourself in.

Originally Posted By: Jawjadawg
I took the gun there looking for an offer due to their famously unqualified experts.

What a bunch of unethical dumbasses.


So if I understand your first statement, you were intentionally going there to find some in-experienced person in the hopes of him giving you a ridiculously high offer on a gun they didn't know anything about. I'm not sure if your second statement is referring to the minimum wage worker you corresponded with, or with yourself.


The hourly people are not the ones who make the final call. I was dealing with the manager of the gun library, not an hourly worker. And yes, I did go there because I have found that they sometimes pay more than most people, but you can scratch all of that out of the conversation as it is basically unrelated - the point was that they said damascus was unsafe to shoot yet are still trying to sell their "unsafe" damascus guns to the public. It doesn't matter if they are correct or not regarding the gun's safety. In their minds the gun is unsafe yet they still want to sell it to someone. As for their knowledge level and perhaps not wanting to get in over their heads - nope, that's not the case. I spoke with someone right after the store opened about that very issue and was told they have people in either Maryland or Virginia who serve for that very purpose. I am assuming their telephone service was in a functional state today, although I could be mistaken. Wouldn't they have simply asked me to return, rather than risk their jobs by having me call their corporate headquarters to complain about the BS story they concocted. What you are suggesting would actually be far worse. They missed out on an opportunity to turn a nice profit had they purchased the gun from me.