Well, I'm going to have my first personal experience with Gunbroker.com. I bought a NIB Remington 700 LSS .257 Weatherby (the special run gun, not an LSS Mountain) from a dealer in New York. Having it shipped to a local FFL nearby. The rifle cost $759 (MSRP $972), shipping is $20 and my local dealer will charge me $30 for the transfer with no IA sales tax. I'm not sure why some of my local transfer dealers listed on gunbroker.com charge sales tax and others don't. Either they are fleecing their customers and pocketing the 5-6% (depending on county), or they don't know better. IA does not (yet) require people pay sales tax on items purchased out-of-state and shipped in, so since the deal is directly between the customer (me) and the out-of-state dealer, the receiving store is not obligated to charge sales tax. Anyway, the total cost will be $809. If the gun were bought locally it would have cost $850 plus 6% sales tax would be $901, so I actually will save $92 which makes it worth while. That's a set of dies, shellholder and a box of brass.

I'll update when the transaction is complete. I'm praying everything goes smoothly. I'm sending my payment (a USPS Money Order) via the USPS, so I'll have some protection there against fraud since if he did scam me he's on the hook for a Federal felony, but I doubt it'd come to that. The seller contacted me soon after the auction ended and I get the feeling he's on the up 'n' up.

Mike