I have taken a few chances with new sellers on the internet auctions. Some of them are decent people who do not know what information we need or want. A few are trying to pull a fast one. Most of the later are easy to catch. They always play too dumb with just enough information that lets you know they are being cute. Bad pictures, from a person in the business, are joke. They either need to learn how to take better ones or get off the net.
I bought a Lefever Nitro Special A Field grade 12 last year that was pristine. The pictures were so bad that you could only identify by shape and color that it might have been in good shape. While I do not need a Nitro Special it is the best I have seen in the last 20 years and it cost me less than $200.00 delivered. It looks unfired and in fact I bet it is or as close to unfired as any gun can be. No primer or shell abrasions on the breech face. Not a nick in the stock. So sometimes a bad picture favors the well informed or the lucky, like myself, (lucky that is).
