[Shotimes] Stereo Questions

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You're screwed. PayPal won't help him but his credit card company will rip
you off and you have NO recourse other than employing a lawyer and get
screwed twice.


Al Fitz
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christina Casselton" <ChrisCass@pacbell.net>
To: "Baysho@Lists. Milleredp. Com" <baysho@lists.milleredp.com>;
<shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 5:23 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] Stereo Questions


> 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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