Selling my pyro

Shaun Haynes

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So im slowly giving up airsoft  and i have quite a lot of pyro that  i dont need and or want where do i stand on selling it on?

 
Yeh, don't do sales in these sorts of threads please all you'll get a warning for off-topic posting. Perhaps send a PM in the future? :)

 
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It's also worth bearing in mind that shipping is probably a no-no, as most couriers won't allow explosives to be shipped.

Enola Gaye have a good page for this:

https://www.enolagaye.com/guidance-shipping-pyrotechnics-by-road-uk/


Ive has plenty of pyro sent to me from various couriers 

Yeh, don't do sales in these sorts of threads please all you'll get a warning for off-topic posting. Answer the OPs question/contribute to the subject of the thread or don't post. Perhaps send a PM in the future?


Provided you sell it to someone over 18 I can’t see any issues. 

 
Ive has plenty of pyro sent to me from various couriers 

Provided you sell it to someone over 18 I can’t see any issues. 
This isn't the section for selling, so it would be considered off-topic, but no one would see you sending a PM.

Same reason sales shouldn't happen in the appraisals.

 
This isn't the section for selling, so it would be considered off-topic, but no one would see you sending a PM.

Same reason sales shouldn't happen in the appraisals.


I answered the question as you requested. PM will be sent momentarily 

 
And this is why we have to just issue warnings instead of trying to ask nicely in threads I guess *shrugs*. Conduct your sales/purchasing via the classifieds or - failing that - just send a PM. Don't bump threads with off-topic content - simple.

 
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Retailers can post things that private sellers can't. 
The expectation being that a retailer will take precautions to properly package and label explosive material that a private seller won't. I know when I've ordered bulk pyro it only ever comes via TNT and with big warning labels all over it. Don't think Parcelforce will even touch retailer stuff, but I could be wrong (most retailers seem to opt for TNT (heh) or FedEx and it costs a pretty penny too). I think the surcharge I've typically paid is about a tenner ontop of whatever I've already paid for postage.

To OP: Might be best to deliver them in person or sell them at a site.

 
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Little aside, the VRCA made it an offence to sell, buy or attempt to buy "a cap-type primer designed for use in metallic ammunition for a firearm".  There is no exception or defence for airsoft use.

And yet .209 shotgun primers are freely traded without any concern.  I wonder if it's because sellers are confident that definition doesn't apply, or if it's just the case that they don't know, or don't give a stuff.

 
Little aside, the VRCA made it an offence to sell, buy or attempt to buy "a cap-type primer designed for use in metallic ammunition for a firearm".  There is no exception or defence for airsoft use.

And yet .209 shotgun primers are freely traded without any concern.  I wonder if it's because sellers are confident that definition doesn't apply, or if it's just the case that they don't know, or don't give a stuff.
That's actually pretty interesting. I believe in this case we're 100% talking about fireworks/pyrotechnics rather than blank firers, but it's somewhat amusing that blanks are fine but primers are not? I mean surely one could extract the primers from a blank if they were that bothered, or do blank firers use a different/less violent primer? I'd have thought not.

 
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