Others My scope related rant for the day!

[bchannell]

I had an older Tasco TS target scope, 6-24X44. If you had one back in the day, they were made in Japan and were really great scopes, that didn't cost an arm and a leg. I probably had that scope for 20 years give or take.
Not using it I decided to sell it, and all went well.
UNTIL, the guy who purchased it sent me a pic of the AO lens comletely screwed off the scope!! Now on these scopes the objective is screwed on clockwise all the way from the factory. You turn it ccw to adjust parallax from something under the marked 25 yds to infinity. What I had no idea of nor would have ever tried, was that you could turn it SEVERAL turns past infinity and then it would come right off. Of course it was sealed with orings and everything was fine as long as you didn't go a ton of turns past infinity. I had, of course, never tried a move like that.
The guy complained the scope didn't have a "stop" for truning the objective out, which may be true, but why in the world would you test that theory and keep going, ... was there something to be gained in that exercise? I mean the scope would adjust to any distance easily withing the first full revolution of the AO bell.

Anyway, I didn't argue and refunded the money, but I'm curious as to what you all think of this little exercise in futiity.
I just think it was stupid to do such a thing and it's kind of sad in a silly sort of way, a good older scope is now destroyed. It tracked better than a lot of newer scopes, oh well.

 

[jps2486]

You sold it to him in working order and in good faith. He, obviously screwed it up. I wouldn't have returned his money.

 

[PapaT]

Apparently it cannot be rotated to infinity and beyond. Maybe he thought it was the Buzz Lightyear Edition?

In seriousness though, the amount of dumb that people manage in day to day continues to sadden and astound me. I agree that I would not have refunded user error, but good on you. Is he sending the "broken" scope back to you? You should be able to reassemble I would think.

 

[bchannell]

I was so disgusted, and didn't want to start a war over it, so I just told him to trash it. I guess it just makes me mad how dumb people can be and then try to blame it on someone else.
He sent me a message and said I should have told him of the "obvious flaw" before selling it. I knew it was way over his head to try to explain how dumb a move that was.
I was just astounded at it, so I refunded and moved on. No big deal.

 

[Florida_Man]

Wow. I have a number of scopes that have adjustment at the front. I can tell you 100% that I have no clue if they will do that. Mine live in the 10m to 35 yard zone and never leave it. The same type idiot will turn the windage and elevation turrets before mounting the scope and then say he can’t zero the scope with his $2.80 rings he bought used off amazon in fair condition.

 

[BeemanHW100]

Sorry this happened to you and that the scope was purchased by someone who didn’t have a clue as to what they had. Reminds me of that old adage: can’t fix stupid!

 

[Lowndes]

I had an older Tasco TS target scope, 6-24X44. If you had one back in the day, they were made in Japan and were really great scopes, that didn't cost an arm and a leg. I probably had that scope for 20 years give or take.
Not using it I decided to sell it, and all went well.
UNTIL, the guy who purchased it sent me a pic of the AO lens comletely screwed off the scope!! Now on these scopes the objective is screwed on clockwise all the way from the factory. You turn it ccw to adjust parallax from something under the marked 25 yds to infinity. What I had no idea of nor would have ever tried, was that you could turn it SEVERAL turns past infinity and then it would come right off. Of course it was sealed with orings and everything was fine as long as you didn't go a ton of turns past infinity. I had, of course, never tried a move like that.
The guy complained the scope didn't have a "stop" for truning the objective out, which may be true, but why in the world would you test that theory and keep going, ... was there something to be gained in that exercise? I mean the scope would adjust to any distance easily withing the first full revolution of the AO bell.

Anyway, I didn't argue and refunded the money, but I'm curious as to what you all think of this little exercise in futiity.
I just think it was stupid to do such a thing and it's kind of sad in a silly sort of way, a good older scope is now destroyed. It tracked better than a lot of newer scopes, oh well.

I was so disgusted, and didn't want to start a war over it, so I just told him to trash it. I guess it just makes me mad how dumb people can be and then try to blame it on someone else.
He sent me a message and said I should have told him of the "obvious flaw" before selling it. I knew it was way over his head to try to explain how dumb a move that was.
I was just astounded at it, so I refunded and moved on. No big deal.

Was the scope nitrogen filled?? If so, he did in fact "damage" it, at least degraded it. I'd have explained that to him and said it was sold with no warranty and it was HIS ERROR, not yours, anyway. Now he has the scope, your money, and feels empowered to do the same thing again to someone.

 

[Danman]

Is the buyer a 5 year old perhaps? Lol, I own 4 scopes and have never went past infinity with any of them, nor did i think to try it?....most of my airguns range max out well before that. This is on him 99.9%, I'd say.

 

[Roamin Greco 1]

I had an older Tasco TS target scope, 6-24X44. If you had one back in the day, they were made in Japan and were really great scopes, that didn't cost an arm and a leg. I probably had that scope for 20 years give or take.
Not using it I decided to sell it, and all went well.
UNTIL, the guy who purchased it sent me a pic of the AO lens comletely screwed off the scope!! Now on these scopes the objective is screwed on clockwise all the way from the factory. You turn it ccw to adjust parallax from something under the marked 25 yds to infinity. What I had no idea of nor would have ever tried, was that you could turn it SEVERAL turns past infinity and then it would come right off. Of course it was sealed with orings and everything was fine as long as you didn't go a ton of turns past infinity. I had, of course, never tried a move like that.
The guy complained the scope didn't have a "stop" for truning the objective out, which may be true, but why in the world would you test that theory and keep going, ... was there something to be gained in that exercise? I mean the scope would adjust to any distance easily withing the first full revolution of the AO bell.

Anyway, I didn't argue and refunded the money, but I'm curious as to what you all think of this little exercise in futiity.
I just think it was stupid to do such a thing and it's kind of sad in a silly sort of way, a good older scope is now destroyed. It tracked better than a lot of newer scopes, oh well.

Agree with all the comments here, but hopefully he gave you a good rating. If not, you can reply with a link to this thread.

 

[MountainSportAirguns]

I would have told him to go pound sand

 

[Linehauler73]

Should have told him about the defect ?? . You should have told him the only way I would have known about that “defect “ was if I was sta-sta-sta stupid enough to turn it that far and obviously never did.

 

[Florida_Man]

Common warranty description

This warranty does not cover damage that occurs in shipment or failures that result from accidents, misuse, abuse, unauthorized alterations, theft, modifications or acts of God.

 

[JimT66]

I had an older Tasco TS target scope, 6-24X44. If you had one back in the day, they were made in Japan and were really great scopes, that didn't cost an arm and a leg. I probably had that scope for 20 years give or take.
Not using it I decided to sell it, and all went well.
UNTIL, the guy who purchased it sent me a pic of the AO lens comletely screwed off the scope!! Now on these scopes the objective is screwed on clockwise all the way from the factory. You turn it ccw to adjust parallax from something under the marked 25 yds to infinity. What I had no idea of nor would have ever tried, was that you could turn it SEVERAL turns past infinity and then it would come right off. Of course it was sealed with orings and everything was fine as long as you didn't go a ton of turns past infinity. I had, of course, never tried a move like that.
The guy complained the scope didn't have a "stop" for truning the objective out, which may be true, but why in the world would you test that theory and keep going, ... was there something to be gained in that exercise? I mean the scope would adjust to any distance easily withing the first full revolution of the AO bell.

Anyway, I didn't argue and refunded the money, but I'm curious as to what you all think of this little exercise in futiity.
I just think it was stupid to do such a thing and it's kind of sad in a silly sort of way, a good older scope is now destroyed. It tracked better than a lot of newer scopes, oh well.

Last I checked, idiocy is NOT COVERED under warranty. Even the platinum extended don't cover it. Fool would and should of been out of his cash. Lesson learned the hard way so he wouldn't forget, or be that stupid again.

 

[Kragman1]

Bchanell: I'm really easy to get along with, but I would never have refunded him. And I'd be mad that he ruined a perfectly good scope, for the scopes sake.

That said, you were the better man in that situation. By a long mile.

 

[Ezana4CE]

I had an older Tasco TS target scope, 6-24X44. If you had one back in the day, they were made in Japan and were really great scopes, that didn't cost an arm and a leg. I probably had that scope for 20 years give or take.
Not using it I decided to sell it, and all went well.
UNTIL, the guy who purchased it sent me a pic of the AO lens comletely screwed off the scope!! Now on these scopes the objective is screwed on clockwise all the way from the factory. You turn it ccw to adjust parallax from something under the marked 25 yds to infinity. What I had no idea of nor would have ever tried, was that you could turn it SEVERAL turns past infinity and then it would come right off. Of course it was sealed with orings and everything was fine as long as you didn't go a ton of turns past infinity. I had, of course, never tried a move like that.
The guy complained the scope didn't have a "stop" for truning the objective out, which may be true, but why in the world would you test that theory and keep going, ... was there something to be gained in that exercise? I mean the scope would adjust to any distance easily withing the first full revolution of the AO bell.

Anyway, I didn't argue and refunded the money, but I'm curious as to what you all think of this little exercise in futiity.
I just think it was stupid to do such a thing and it's kind of sad in a silly sort of way, a good older scope is now destroyed. It tracked better than a lot of newer scopes, oh well.

This sounds like an exercise of dumb-assdedness at its finest. Yes, I typed “assdedness.” Read it aloud. That’s exactly what I meant.