[Shotimes] Stereo Questions

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:11:11 -0500

Yes, I would like to know who this mope is also, maybe we can have a chat.
:)

Ryan J Pasch
SHOCAGO - President
www.SHOCAGO.com
1994 Opal Frost MTX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Stout" <sho_man1@yahoo.com>
To: "Christina Casselton" <ChrisCass@pacbell.net>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Stereo Questions

> 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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