I posted this on another forum, and though I would post it here just as food for thought.. Because there are no local sellers of things like RWS airguns in my area, I am reduced to ordering them online from the many fine vendors out there in internet-land, but I always click that "submit your order" button with some trepidation, mainly for the reasons explained in my post below:

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I ordered a sheridan silver streak .20 cal about 1.5 months ago and have sent all four that were sent to me back as blemished to the online vendor I bought them from. The first gun I was sent had a glob of tar or something near the breech before it went into the chrome tank, and when I wiped the tar away, I had gleaming brass staring back at me. Also the stock was dinged in several places, similar to the ding it would get if you walked through a door and hit the stock on the doorjamb. Gun #2 also had a beat up stock and went straight back. Gun #3 had the lower tube that retains the pump arm machined crooked!! and the roll pin that holds the cap on the end of the lower tube was also shot through crooked, missing the hole on the left side of the gun and blowing out a figure 8 shaped hole. That gun went straight back too.. Gun #4 had some kind of crusty slag leftover from soldering the barrel to the lower tube, which got chromed, but when I wiped it. flaked off revealing shiny brass (again!!). That gun went straight back and I finally asked for a refund. So I switched to another well known internet vendor (which I will not name- they have sold me good guns before and my beef here is not with them.) I am on vendor #2 now and the first gun they send me is ok.. obviously from the quality of the fit and finish it is from a different production batch than the other company's stockpile of rifles.. the stock was the older, more square style and the quality of the wood was better too. I'm thinking, "ok I finally got a winner here", and I go to fire it and find the tip of the bolt is BENT! Anyone else had similar probs with benjamin/sheridan products? From my experience the quality of their products is going to sh*t.. They charge a decent price for their stuff, I mean I could buy a GAMO for what I pay for a silver streak. You would think they would have manufacturing quality control of such an old and venerable gun that they have been making since 1947 "down pat".
I am starting to suspect that the "made in the usa" stamped on these things should be read as a warning label. Anyone had similar experiences with benji/sheridan guns? Also this evening I bought a benji 392 .22 pump gun
that a local sporting goods chain was blowing out for 25 % off, and I made the clerk get me 4 boxes so I could open them all and pick the best one.. glad I did too,because they also seemed to be from different production batches whith wildly varying quality. I took home the one with the nice, light grain, light stain stock that had the white insert at the butt of the stock, and rejected the newer dark stained not walnut stocks that like the sheris I got in the mail *all had major stock dings!!* These are good guns, but I find it pathetic that benji/sheri want to charge you a full boat price for guns that have such shoddy quality/blemish control.

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both have been owned by crosman for 15(?) years.Many changes in triggers,valves,wood,metal finish-some for the better,most not.So,the cuurent guns are not being made by the same people or processes as the old ones.Stock dings are the fault of the retailer,not manufacturer,in my opinion.If you want a nice benji/'dan,look online or your local pawnshops/gunshops.I see old ones needing only wood refinish,maybe a valve job,for $75-$100 pretty often.