Armslist Alabama

[Teddy T]

I have been a long time subscriber to Armslist. Well my time with Armslist ended today. I have used a pre-paid credit card to pay my $6.99 a month dues, but now they will no longer except a pre-paid CC. My opinion of Armslist is that it is not a very secure sight. They want a debit or bank cc to continue my account. I guess I will start posting any guns I have for sale on our forum. Thank you for letting me vent!
Bud

 

[cutt]

I understand. I left them years ago.

 

[ALGunGuy]

⬆️ Same here. I gave up on Armslist many years ago. Too many weasels…

 

[Drcrimson]

Armslist is definitely not a great option.

There is some decent traffic here, but not huge volume.

After moving back to Alabama a few years ago I was frankly surprised at how few options there are available.

 

[Dfalt]

Not takiing a pre-paid card when they're functionally the same as any other card doesn't make any sense. Oh well, their loss I guess

 

[BigWaveDave]

I have been a long time subscriber to Armslist. Well my time with Armslist ended today. I have used a pre-paid credit card to pay my $6.99 a month dues, but now they will no longer except a pre-paid CC. My opinion of Armslist is that it is not a very secure sight. They want a debit or bank cc to continue my account. I guess I will start posting any guns I have for sale on our forum. Thank you for letting me vent!
Bud

Yep had to drop them when the search options went to crap and then a few months later they started charging.

 

[edtalabama]

I have been a long time subscriber to Armslist. Well my time with Armslist ended today. I have used a pre-paid credit card to pay my $6.99 a month dues, but now they will no longer except a pre-paid CC. My opinion of Armslist is that it is not a very secure sight. They want a debit or bank cc to continue my account. I guess I will start posting any guns I have for sale on our forum. Thank you for letting me vent!
Bud

I found way too many scammers on arms list and the administrators would do nothing about it because they were making money off the paid ads.

 

[Pioneers74]

Yeah Armslist has had problems for awhile.

 

[aftac19]

I never used Armslist that much but I did use gunbroker and a few other websites like vaguntrader.com back when I was stationed in NOVA. Good market there for guns. Here it’s weird because I am a black rifle shooter and around here it’s different I dont know. I also Carry a Glock or a HK P2000 so I am a little off on what I do.

 

[Bamarider]

I have been a long time subscriber to Armslist. Well my time with Armslist ended today. I have used a pre-paid credit card to pay my $6.99 a month dues, but now they will no longer except a pre-paid CC. My opinion of Armslist is that it is not a very secure sight. They want a debit or bank cc to continue my account. I guess I will start posting any guns I have for sale on our forum. Thank you for letting me vent!
Bud

You can also use Tacswap.

 

[Xero]

I have been a long time subscriber to Armslist. Well my time with Armslist ended today. I have used a pre-paid credit card to pay my $6.99 a month dues, but now they will no longer except a pre-paid CC. My opinion of Armslist is that it is not a very secure sight. They want a debit or bank cc to continue my account. I guess I will start posting any guns I have for sale on our forum. Thank you for letting me vent!
Bud

I laughed so hard. This is literally ripped from the pages of "How to Scam nerds 101". Next, they're gonna ask you to send them $100 so you can help a Nigerian prince move their millions to the US.

 

[Griz375]

I have been a long time subscriber to Armslist. Well my time with Armslist ended today. I have used a pre-paid credit card to pay my $6.99 a month dues, but now they will no longer except a pre-paid CC. My opinion of Armslist is that it is not a very secure sight. They want a debit or bank cc to continue my account. I guess I will start posting any guns I have for sale on our forum. Thank you for letting me vent!
Bud

Venting is a good thing.

Their site is (or was) rife w/ scammers.

I left because there was no trader rating and, as I wanted to deal within a certain distance, I found their search engine lacking. I remember looking for a specific rifle and within days got pinged several times with offers. Almost none were from "members".

That was about the time they started charging so I gave it a 60-day trial. There was no improvement so, I left. Doubt very much I'll be back.

BTW - getting good action here when you want to sell or buy is pretty much a certainty.

 

[dmo930]

I am here because I stopped using Armslist also

 

[Beastmaker]

I used Armslist once and had a good experience with it. Got a nice youth 20g 870. Would check back with them periodically. Then noticed they wouldn't put prices unless you have an account. I would pay for an account to post something but there gonna charge someone to buy it or even to see the price. That's pretty crappy to me.

 

[PDren000]

Late to the party, but same here. I stopped using it when they started charging. I still browse occasionally, since I had an account prior to the new subscription system, but I can't contact anyone unless they have their number in the listing. I've started looking on this forum and MeWe when I want to trade. This forum at least kicks off spammers pretty quick when they do show up.

 

[Bypass]

Used it once a long time ago. I had no idea they started charging for the "service".

 

[PDren000]

Used it once a long time ago. I had no idea they started charging for the "service".

They got sued a few times by gun control advocates and they said that's why they started charging. Probably a combination of lawsuits and wanting a little more dough out of the site, but I can understanding wanting more lawyer money given the wild stuff gun grabbers will sue over.

 

[thebabyderp]

I left when they started charging a fee just went downhill

 

[PDren000]

I left when they started charging a fee just went downhill

I still go on there sometimes to check the listings cause some folks will put their number up, but yeah. Overall site quality is down, very few listings compared to pre-charging days. Pretty sad, honestly. It used to be a good resource except for the occasional obviously stolen gun.

 

[Bamapilot010]

Like many things, armslist became a victim of its own success… I had great success with it, and bought/traded a few firearms with it. As it became more well know, it attracted the scammers. When they started charging a fee, I still used it for a bit; however I noticed it started to take the downhill trend as quality options became fewer and fewer. I’ll browse hoping to find quality finds, but not much luck.