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I find it interesting how many want to make the woman out to be the person in the wrong.

My thinking is that if she was set up at a table, that made her a dealer, at least for the day. In that case, all bets are off and it's an arms length transaction. Both seller and buyer are expected to be knowledgeable under those circumstances. If they are not, they should not be buying or selling.

Different story if she walked in trying to sell her dead husband's gun, but it does not look like this non-deal went down that way.

The woman was in the wrong for not naming her price in terms that were clearly understood. The potential buyer was equally stupid.

The truth is is really has no bearing on seller was a woman or not; her fault lay in being stupid, not in her pants.

She was stupid, he was a cheat.

tunes,

That's one I couldn't sell. I offered to buy it from him if he ever wanted to sell, which he didn't. I had offered deer hunting on my land to him and his wife 20 something years before, and they had hunted with me every year since. Then, his wife was diagnosed with abdominal cancer. When she succumbed to it, and my wife and I went to her funeral, her husband asked me to eat breakfast with him at home. He walked into the room with the Manton and handed it to me and said that it had been his wife's dying wish that I have the gun. I tried to refuse it, but I could see that he, in his grief, was adamant that his dead wife's wish be honored. So, that's how it came to be in my safe. And, it HAS been fired now, in memory of Blanche.

Stan

she was at a table

- meaning she had paid for the table and was an exhibitor or seller? Did she have other guns for sale? Were any of them tagged with asking prices? In my opinion, in such a case, responding with "(something)teen" for a gun with no price tag is a lot worse than to respond "what would you offer?" or "what do you think it is worth?" The guy writing the check may have simply been graphically showing her the error of her ways.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast and after nearly 40 years of being an exhibitor at guns and antique shows I have learned to always be very clear about the price when asked about unmarked items.When asked about a Meek reel many years ago and I responded"Two and a half" the young man pulled out 3 one dollar bills. He was not aware of what it really was and I was not clear on the price. I have never made that mistake again.

The other thing I find hard to digest is that the buyer looked the gun over for almost an hour and in that whole time the 'misunderstanding' never came to light.

I'm tossing this case out of court due to general apathy.

Brian,

I could not understand your description of the event. Why don't you repost with the actual facts. You're asking us to comment on a purposely muddled and hypothetical event.

Phil