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Fudd, as Stan and others have stated, posting photos here is fast, easy, and free. The additional time required to upload a pic to a free photo hosting site, and then copy-and-paste it into a post or advertisement here is minimal. Stan says it takes less than 60 seconds, and he's absolutely right. If I already have the photo stored in my PC, it takes about 20 seconds or less. Posting photos directly from my Android phone might take a full minute. The tens of thousands of photos posted here over the years should be proof that it isn't at all difficult.

Most of the guns I've bought online were at least as described, and sometimes better. I pay attention to details and ask questions. If I don't get good answers, I don't buy or bid. One Lefever stock was broken during shipping, the fault of FedEX, and the seller gave me the option of returning it or giving me a partial refund. I kept it and took the refund, so never had to make a return. I considered returning another Lefever once because it was said to have fluid steel tubes, but they were Damascus. Robert Elliot advised me to keep it because almost all were fluid steel. He said it was a rare variation of an already scarce gun. Your biggest impediment in selling a gun here is being Canadian. Most buyers would incur a large fee and long wait to import it. Another impediment would come if you had guys like the Nutty Professor dislike you. Then they would Troll and intrude on every For Sale thread you posted here, and repeatedly do all they could to disrupt your sale. They also would claim to be civil members who never break the rules they complain about others breaking. This mentality is also why Dave would be nuts to have photo hosting here. If the system ever crashed or got hacked, the crybabies who lost images would blame him for all eternity.

I liked your list of various chokes. But you forgot one that is even tighter than Too Full, Reverse Venturi, or Buick. Gladys Kravitz choke is so tight, you couldn't get a greased sewing needle through it with ten times proof pressure.

I tried to register with jpgbox on my Iphone. Input all correct data. Got "Not a suitable file" twice. Tried again on my desktop. Got a reply "this page is not working." Appears to be a little more difficult than 60 seconds.
JR

Similar difficulty, Mister Roberts.

Might be a quirk of my attempting registering from an iPad.

Well aware of the impediments (the principal one being that we expect payment in maple syrup, which hasn't been pegged to the Swiss franc since 1920, making the currency exchange math excruciating), and I have no intention to. I was simply addressing and querying North American shotgun sales listing practices in general.

Glad you enjoyed my choke menu. Full Penguin, in a twelve, will drop an overflying common loon like a small cotton sack full of quarters. Cooking it, however, is another matter entirely. Fifty changes of brining-water will be in order before disposing of the carcass and eating the pot.

I used jpgbox for several years after the photo-bucket shakedown. Then they went belly up for 5 months so I had to recreate everything using Imgur.com. I like jpg box better and the errors you're getting are probably just indications the site is being updated. However, Imgur has been very reliable since then. Just have to learn to use it which is not hard either.

IMO, the important thing is to NOT use any of those hosting sites to STORE your images. From what I have gathered that's what so many were doing with photobucket, and they lost them. This infuriated some, but I never trusted them to store mine anyway, especially for free, so I lost nothing. Good riddance, to them (photobucket) I say. Store your images somewhere secure and just use jpgbox as a guest. I use our desktop Apple/Mac to store mine. I suppose they go to "the cloud", whatever that is. It's worked perfectly for me, for a great many years, so far.

But, maybe I've just been lucky.

I think this is so true. I use a portable hard drive that is almost permanently attached to my desk top IMac. Many of them are also on my Mac/iPhone/iPad and in the cloud as Stan suggests. But if it’s a photo I want to keep……it’s on the hard drive.

I had the same problems with them. Got rejected over and over. These guys walked me through IMGUR and it was simple. Try that one and let someone walk you through it. Write down the steps as someone gives them to you.

John- Go to the "Favorite Game/Gun Pictures 2023 Hunting Season" thread just below here. Go to page 7. Start reading at the bottom of the page- the instructions these guys gave me on how to post pictures. Good luck!!