[Shotimes] Stereo Questions

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:15:57 -0700 (PDT)

Chris, what part of Illinois, does the "little feller" live??  You want maybe i should go have a talk with him ? Kinda like they would have done in Chicago in da 30's 

Mike <srfdude@cox.net> wrote:Christina, I've been on the wrong end of a couple PayPal transactions, and
have come to the conclusion they don't do much to resolve disputes. Their
biggest concern is whether the item was actually sent; they seem to pay less
attention to quality disputes. Make sure you reply to all their inquiries,
hopefully you have the emails you sent where you told him the unit was "as
is", or some such backup for your position. You should come out ok. On
installation it only takes one ham-handed second to short something, and
cause the sort of problems you describe. In fact I have let the smoke out
of a couple items over the years, although I never attempted to screw the
seller. Most importantly, IMHO, is to stay your course and tell them you
sold the item as-is in good faith, with an appropriate price to match.
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christina Casselton" 
To: "Baysho@Lists. Milleredp. Com" ;

Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:23 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
>
> > l>
>
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