National Apple & Google remove "Bid & Buy" option from Gun Broker app.

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Mobile Apps - Discontinued

Effective July 1, 2021 Due to policy changes within their companies, Apple and Google have chosen to not support our apps any longer. This means we cannot provide needed updates, fixes or new acces...

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[Aero Denezol]

I didn't know the mobile app still existed. Apple removed it for a time after El Paso.

 

[darkminstrel]

Next step they'll take is forbidding you from using a google or apple product(hello iphones and android phones) from accessing sites like that. If they can do the one, they can do the other.

 

[Basedgreaser]

Next step they'll take is forbidding you from using a google or apple product(hello iphones and android phones) from accessing sites like that. If they can do the one, they can do the other.

Doubt it. Im sure google and apple love watching gun owners search history and purchases and conglomerating that data with our various social media ect. A gun registration probably already exists between them and us intelligence.
They got names locations gps data search history purchase history likes and dislikes on sm. A complete personal profile from the food people eat to their favorite comedians on youtube to their latest amazon purchase for an oil trap.

 

[cigars]

By now, is anybody really surprised? These are not impartial freedom of choice loving companies. They operate as a policy somewhere slightly right of Stalin and left of Hitler.

 

[awshoot]

Doubt it. Im sure google and apple love watching gun owners search history and purchases and conglomerating that data with our various social media ect. A gun registration probably already exists between them and us intelligence.
They got names locations gps data search history purchase history likes and dislikes on sm. A complete personal profile from the food people eat to their favorite comedians on youtube to their latest amazon purchase for an oil trap.

It won't protect you from the NSA, but there's no reason to use google for search when DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified. exists. They don't store personal info or track you. Doesn't hurt to do what you can to minimize your digital footprint.

 

[03A3Sporter]

I honestly do not know why or how Gunbroker still exists given the dishonest seller practices that they allow to exist. I have been using Gunbroker since there has been a Gunbroker and sadly its never been great. Shill bidders abound , as well as dishonest buyers. When I used to sell there I had buyers who would take the absolute maximum amount of time to pay for purchases , so much so that I quit selling on there . There is no reason to take 14 days to pay someone. My most recent experience was not a good one, there is seller on there currently who has somewhere around 40 auctions for once fired range brass starting at $40 with free shipping. Right now he has at least 10 of those auctions for 8x57 range brass, no bids whatsoever on any of them for weeks. Last week I bid on one of them with 18 hours left , within an hour of the auction I was bidding on ending , it received a bid out bidding me . All the other auctions still have no bids and all are ending at the exact same time.

I do not like their 15 minute rule or the fact that they allow shill accounts.

I wish ebay still allowed the sale of guns like they did back in the 90's

 

[41mag]

I don't use any of them.

 

[awshoot]

I honestly do not know why or how Gunbroker still exists given the dishonest seller practices that they allow to exist. I have been using Gunbroker since there has been a Gunbroker and sadly its never been great. Shill bidders abound , as well as dishonest buyers. When I used to sell there I had buyers who would take the absolute maximum amount of time to pay for purchases , so much so that I quit selling on there . There is no reason to take 14 days to pay someone. My most recent experience was not a good one, there is seller on there currently who has somewhere around 40 auctions for once fired range brass starting at $40 with free shipping. Right now he has at least 10 of those auctions for 8x57 range brass, no bids whatsoever on any of them for weeks. Last week I bid on one of them with 18 hours left , within an hour of the auction I was bidding on ending , it received a bid out bidding me . All the other auctions still have no bids and all are ending at the exact same time.

I do not like their 15 minute rule or the fact that they allow shill accounts.

I wish ebay still allowed the sale of guns like they did back in the 90's

To be fair regarding shill bidders and accounts, with easy access to VPN services and most people having more than one computer, it's basically impossible to eliminate. I don't know that I'd blame GB for that issue.

EDIT: well, I suppose GB could require every account to send in a picture ID, but that would kill the site as firearms buyers/sellers tend to be privacy minded, and the savvy shills will have access to other IDs of compatriots.

 

[03A3Sporter]

To be fair regarding shill bidders and accounts, with easy access to VPN services and most people having more than one computer, it's basically impossible to eliminate. I don't know that I'd blame GB for that issue.

EDIT: well, I suppose GB could require every account to send in a picture ID, but that would kill the site as firearms buyers/sellers tend to be privacy minded, and the savvy shills will have access to other IDs of compatriots.

It is relatively easy to ferret out shill bidding, data analytics can easily be used to see which sellers are pumping the bid by items that sell which are never paid for by the "bidder" which requires the seller be given a fee credit. Any seller who has too high a percentage of unpaid for items is most likely engaging in shill bidding. Don't get me wrong it happens I recently had a non paying bidder on ebay. In fact I have had 6 total in a 12 month period, but if it happens over and over that indicates something else is afoot.

 

[Goosebrown]

Don't use the app. Use the website.

 

[Mathias]

Doubt it. Im sure google and apple love watching gun owners search history and purchases and conglomerating that data with our various social media ect. A gun registration probably already exists between them and us intelligence.
They got names locations gps data search history purchase history likes and dislikes on sm. A complete personal profile from the food people eat to their favorite comedians on youtube to their latest amazon purchase for an oil trap.

Try DuckDuckgo.com. see if they can ascertain if you're online. Just purchased a firearm using that search.

 

[nammac]

I just open the website in Safari, not much of an app user...

 

[Hueco]

You mean the GB crowd isn't also the type to use a jailbroke Android device so as to use an app without going through the official store?

 

[jerseyrefugee]

I hate google... They are too damn nosey for my money... I avoid using it whenever I can.. Somebody above mentioned how much info they collect on us... Google can go screw themselves....

 

[Geardo]

A gun registration probably already exists between them and us intelligence.

100% correct. Maybe not serial #s buy they sure know what caliber guns you own.

 

[Joe Link]

Doubt it. Im sure google and apple love watching gun owners search history and purchases and conglomerating that data with our various social media ect. A gun registration probably already exists between them and us intelligence.
They got names locations gps data search history purchase history likes and dislikes on sm. A complete personal profile from the food people eat to their favorite comedians on youtube to their latest amazon purchase for an oil trap.

Sad but true. Between the tech companies and the government, people should not consider anything on the internet private. While there are a ton of thing you can do to increase privacy, relying on them to actually provide privacy is a huge mistake. The fact is we don't know what we don't know (as evidenced by Snowden). The technology is constantly improving, so even if you've adopted every privacy tool and policy ever made and never once slipped up (nearly impossible for a human), they still might be able to figure out who you are. If you want to keep something private you should keep that information and electronic devices separate.

Understand that I'm not saying it's a lost cause and that you shouldn't take steps to maintain your privacy, I'm saying actually relying on those steps and believing you're information is absolutely private is not wise.

I hate google... They are too damn nosey for my money... I avoid using it whenever I can.. Somebody above mentioned how much info they collect on us... Google can go screw themselves....

All the tech companies are terrible when it comes to privacy, but I think Google is the worst. I wouldn't use an Android phone if you paid me.

 

[CountryGent]

Agreed, Google is probably the worst. Ironic for a company that had the slogan "Don't be evil".