Texas Gun Trader... Out of business?

[Texas1911]

I don't know how long it takes to update a site or change servers or whatever, but they have been off the air for two days now. I hope they get it fixed or give or sell it to someone who can....I enjoy the site for the most part.

Generally it takes about 72 hours for DNS to propagate to all the various nodes once you make the switch. It really depends on how fast your ISP and router / modem update it's tables. If you reset your router / modem it generally will pull the new website.

 

[texas1894]

So I've been noticing the Texas Gun Trader website has been having some issues sporadically over the past months. Now, the browser has not been able to find the server for the past couple of days.

Anybody in the know with them?

I have emailed a couple of times with no response. You may want to go look on this sight. ARMSLIST - Gun Classifieds It is a free to list sight, and has a pretty good engine for the three pictures you get. There is no charge to join, this could be a good site?
texas1894

 

[Flewda]

Hey all, I'm new here, and thought I would join in on this topic as I was going to start a new thread about it. I was definitely bummed to see it down. I knew they were migrating to a new server and that offline time could be expected. I do hope it'll be back up soon, though. I love browsing the pages and seeing what's available. It's nice to have a site like that to go to. Bought me a nice quad rail handguard on there not that long ago, and got several replies from my WTB post. Very nice resource indeed.

 

[Anger]

seems to be up and running (with search errors) this am. and it's down again lol. Posts were from April 3rd and the links did work. Debug in process it appears. Too bad he's got to do it with the live product vs creating a test product and testing that while leaving the old one up/running.

 

[tmd11111]

TGT is back online but the search feature is acting a little quirky.

 

[InfantryNCO]

Ha, now they're back offline.

 

[shooterfpga]

seems to be up and running (with search errors) this am. and it's down again lol. Posts were from April 3rd and the links did work. Debug in process it appears. Too bad he's got to do it with the live product vs creating a test product and testing that while leaving the old one up/running.

exactly. timestamp backup......

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[Flewda]

Yeah seems to be working, but I can't isolate by area (Austin) atm. Just refreshes the page.

 

[Rangel]

Not working for me


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[Saxet]

I have tried for eight weeks to get an admin to reset my password on that site. When they finally replied and gave me my new and Password it did not work on Firefox or IE, so I tried to log in on another PC...still no luck. Now wonder they are crapping out, they cannot even let customers log on.

 

[dondavis3]

It's working fine for me.

I just sent a question to one of the people selling a gun and he got my question

And I got his answer.

 

[GaryH]

It's working ok for me too. About time. I have money burning a hole in my pocket....LOL

 

[TexasBrandon]

lol they want you to use a bill of sale...

 

[Saxet]

It's working fine for me.

I just sent a question to one of the people selling a gun and he got my question

And I got his answer.

If I could log in I am sure I could get a reply also

 

[tmd11111]

Just logged in to TGT. Seems to be back to normal this morning.

 

[Anger]

Can we turn this thread into a "poke fun of overpriced guns/ammo" on TGTrader or would that piss the mods off? There's a used CETME for $750 which I found particularly laughable for one...

 

[matefrio]

Think of them as starting prices. Unless you're in the market and negotiating you don't know what price that rifle will go for.

Look at it on the flip side as well. If you were a seller of that gun wouldn't you like to make more off your sale?

Laugh at the seller all you want but if he gets that price he'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[shooterfpga]

Think of them as starting prices. Unless you're in the market and negotiating you don't know what price that rifle will go for.

Look at it on the flip side as well. If you were a seller of that gun wouldn't you like to make more off your sale?

Laugh at the seller all you want but if he gets that price he'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

+1, there was only one gun i sold that i actually got the price listed within a week. it was my lmt mws. i got close to what i paid for it. if i list my stuff somewhat high, its because i already know the cheapo lowballers are abound and wanna haggle $200+ off whatever is listed. everything i sell is best offer. example, i had something i was selling for $400, guy wanted to do $200 plus trade, i agreed and then he wanted to do $150 no trade. so if youre wondering why things are listed high, its because of that.

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[Anger]

Think of them as starting prices. Unless you're in the market and negotiating you don't know what price that rifle will go for.

Look at it on the flip side as well. If you were a seller of that gun wouldn't you like to make more off your sale?

Laugh at the seller all you want but if he gets that price he'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

I suppose they could be considered to be starting prices but, to me, those starting prices are a red flag. I'm a savvy consumer so I don't even give those a second look, however, they are annoying. Making more off a sale is one thing but within reason. But listing used guns for considerably more than new is a waste of everyone's time, especially on the internet. If the buyer is using the internet, you can assume the buyer has basic skills such as google "cetme" or similar and find links to low prices elsewhere.

 

[Anger]

+1, there was only one gun i sold that i actually got the price listed within a week. it was my lmt mws. i got close to what i paid for it. if i list my stuff somewhat high, its because i already know the cheapo lowballers are abound and wanna haggle $200+ off whatever is listed. everything i sell is best offer. example, i had something i was selling for $400, guy wanted to do $200 plus trade, i agreed and then he wanted to do $150 no trade. so if youre wondering why things are listed high, its because of that.

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close to what you paid for it is to be expected and normal. Sometime you might get lucky and make a couple unexpected bux or break even most times on used to used. BUT hagglers who offer unreasonable less via email sight unseen or less in person once a deal is struck are totally ignored in my book.