I recently purchased a un-messed with relatively new gun from him. He mis-represented it but I figured he would and didn't get burnt at the purchase price we struck. As suspected it arrived with what he called scuff's on the grip wood finish. I measured two of the deepest at 0.220 and 0.202" open to raw wood, looked like someone tried to start to cut the grip cap off with a hack saw. He does not care about what folks think. I shared web page links with him. He just doesn't care. I guess as long as he's closing auctions he won't change, maybe never will.