I want to warn all of you about something that I just experienced first hand. Those of you who follow this and the other Quartebore forums regularly might have noticed that there was a contributor who wanted to purchase several of the M9 bayonets that were featured here. He was warned to stop posting and was eventually blocked from further posting. I was contacted by this individual by email shortly after that and offered a crazy sum of money for one of my featured bayonets. It was crazy enough that I'd be crazy not to accept the offer. I replied that I'd be willing to make the deal. The person wrote back telling me to send him the bayonet, IN CHINA, and he would send me the money. This presented a little problem; for those of you who don't know, it is illegal for you to send weapons to China from the US. It is also illegal for a Chinese resident to receive or own a bayonet.
I conferred with a friend who is Chinese. He told me that he knows of this individual and he has a reputation for ripping off foreigners. He tells them to send him the bayonet and he will send payment upon receipt. He claims that he never received the package and that it must have been confiscated or lost in the mail. He ends up with the bayonet and you end up holding you hand on your ass.
The offers he makes are really too good to pass up. But I just want to warn all of you, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
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Harley-Davidson FLTRI
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