[Shotimes] Stereo Questions

[Christina Casselton]

Hi guys--and gals, of course.  I need some help and advice if you
wouldn't mind sharing some.  Most of you know I had to sell a lot of my
spare parts from my car to make it to the convention, and all went well
with one exception--I sold a spare head unit and my trunk mounted 10
disc CD changer to one young fellow in Illinois.  The head unit I sold
him had been in my car when I purchased it new--BUT--the CD player had
konked out on it, so the repair shop removed both the head unit AND the
CD unit for repairs--this was back in 1999.  It was going to take an
awfully long time for me to be without a radio--so I ended up finding a
new unit of old stock at a local Santa Rosa Ford dealership--for a
Thunderbird--so I bought it while my unit was out being repaired and had
it installed instead.

When the repaired units came back--complete with stickers on them from
the repair shop, I just hung on to them in case the same problem
happened to me again.  This is how I came to have the extra head
unit/radio/cassette and CD player in the first place.

When I sold this unit to the young lad I explained to him this whole
story and that I wouldn't hesitate to put it back into my car in a
heartbeat--the part numbers matched his, etc.  Anyway, I specifically
stated to him however, that since these were electronic parts and they
were being shipped and installed by "God knows who", so to speak, that
they were sold strictly "as is" and no warranty would be attached to
them.

Due to my father's illness it took me a while to get this shipped out to
him, but he did receive the units and all, but now he has filed a claim
against PayPal, stating that I sold him "bad goods" in "bad faith" and
has contacted his credit card company to refute payment so my PayPal
account has been seized and charged back the amount of the purchase.

This kid claims that the only thing wrong with his old head unit was
that the volume button didn't work--and he had to use the redundant
control to adjust the volume.  He said he plugged "my" unit in and it
promptly "blew out both his amps" and that now he has NOTHING--his old
head unit doesn't work either.  He said he was told by a stereo shop
there in Illinois that there was a "short" in the head unit that caused
his amps to blow.

Unfortunately I had some amps I could have sent him, but just recently
sold them too, or I would have helped the poor kid out, but now that he
is threatening me with the whole transaction through legal means, I'm
wondering if any of you stereo wizards know if this could possibly
happen?  He states all he did was unplug his head unit and plugged in
mine and wham--blew out his system.  I know things can be a coincidence,
but I am suspicious.  I don't know enough about stereo stuff to know if
he is telling the truth or not.  He is a young kid which is one reason I
told him NO WARRANTY--never knowing what he'd do to the thing--BUT--I
didn't lie to him when I told him the history of the item and that I
wouldn't hesitate to put it back into my car--and even explained why I
didn't put in a repaired unit in after having purchased a brand new unit
back in 1999--so can anyone help give me a defense to this or am I just
screwed due to "shelf life" of the head unit or anything else??

Thanks in advance for any and all advice or help.

Christina

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