ByronC I can understand your anxiety with the purchase. I am the type of person who would give someone the money if they truly were in need, but....I can get real ****ie if someone steals it from me. I read through all of the replies, but...I didn't see what time frame you are writing about in this thread???? As for scammers they exist everywhere and one must be cautious as all hell when making an online purchase. I read some of the replies about checking on the person's address and personal information, for most times this will work, but again we are talking about thieves who are as high-tech or higher-tech than most of us are. As for a personal address, I posted about a scam on the forum about a company in Kansas (?) a few years back. This scammer actually stole a legitimate company's name, company address and actually posted a photo of the company's business on the webpage. For some reason I didn't feel right about making the purchase and "actually" called the local PD and asked about the place and its legitimacy. The local PD told me that the gun shop that I was looking to make the purchase from was a legitimate dealer, however the site that was online was a scammer. The officer stated that the gun shop and the PD knew of the scamming going on, they had tried everything they could to shut down the web site, but were unable to do it. Another such incident is the web site Powder Valley, where a scammer opened up a site one "POWDERS VALLEY", and POWDERS VALLEY's site mimicked POWER VALLEY's web page. From all of the replies that I have read here, it seems that there is a strong possibility that this person is a scammer in sheep's clothing??? If nothing else I want to thank you for making everyone on here aware of this potential scammer, and also hope that you did report this person to the administration on this thread.