I had something very similar happen on an M1A I tried to buy. I sent all the funds and then the seller says "he's been told by his lawyer that he shouldn't ship to my FFL because his shipping address is different than his physical address." What I think happened was he realized he could be selling his rifle for more. This was a year or so ago when they were hard to come by. One thing that was interesting was that this all took place on M14 firing line. He had the money and when I started getting jerked around I posted on his original for sale add the details. I think he actually closed his account there due to people flogging him so hard.WildBill wrote:Sometimes a dishonest person will make a deal and then another buyer comes along and offers more money so they will make up some excuse not to sell it to the original buyer.
It was a giant pain in the butt however he did send the USPS money orders back and reimbursed my fees. I flat out told him he was to overnight them and if I didn't have them the next day I was contacting the postal inspector. Funny how his lawyer was all of a sudden mute on that point. Upon leaving the M14 Firing line he declared that people there were not worthy of his membership so he would not be selling the rifle on there and instead posted it over on Gun Broker.