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Intimidation by buyer
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If its all above board and as you describe, then you will not have any problem refunding him will you?jon_burrage wrote: »i understand some of the comments made but I moved house, when the tv was in my previous house it worked fine but we knew we wouldnt be using at at the new place so we put it in a self store facility along with other belongings of mine. Since when has there been a plug for customers to use at a self store facility? I had the tv stored in a lock up unit....where do I power it up?
I didnt need to give the buyer my address because we met at the self store facility...saves him driving to my place and then on to there, I thought it was the sensible thing to do. Obviously he had my phone number because we needed to ensure we met each other!
It is the decent thing to do........not sit back and laugh and think "What a mug buying a TV when he doesnt even know if it works".
If you are a genuinely nice person you would refund the money.....if you dont, you migth find car tyres popped during the night or other such nasties. And I am sure that you would never be able to trace it back to this guy.
Do the right thing and dont be so mean!0 -
to be honest I'd have a problem with it as listed above.
If it didn't work and he wasn't happy and he'd contacted to ask if he could return it, then fine return and offer to collect or he can keep it.
He threatened the op.
That is unaceptable behaviour and should not be encouraged.
I'd tell him to open a paypal dispute and return it. Then I'd refund.
Might (almost definately) get a neg, but might encourage him to be a bit more civil next time.Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott
It's amazing how those with a can-do attitude and willingness to 'pitch in and work' get all the luck, isn't it?
Please consider buying some pet food and giving it to your local food bank collection or animal charity. Animals aren't to blame for the cost of living crisis.0 -
were you the one who said youd punch her lights out?
No, i qouted the person who said and said " they sound brutish" "and you get more flies with honey than vinger" i dont see why it was banned, i pointed out the obvious with the person who said theyd punch someones lights out over a tv-thats a bit far isnt it.
I cant believe my post was banned when all i put was the above, ive seen alot worse on this fourm along the lines of bullying and no one bans it...0 -
I'd tell him to open a paypal dispute and return it. Then I'd refund.
Paypal wasn't used and OP should not have sold the item in question unless it was tested, and should do the decent thing. Advising people to stall unhappy buyers until they open a dispute is foolish as disputes count against a seller and all you would get for that was a black mark against the seller's account.
By all means insist on a return, but personally when this happened to me as a seller, I didn't want the item back, I couldn't have sold it on again so I just told them to keep it, bin it, and sent them their money back with sincere apologies."Well, it's election year, Bill, we'd rather people didn't exercise common sense..." - Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, season 4
Am now Crowqueen, MRes (Law) - on to the PhD!0 -
No, i qouted the person who said and said " they sound brutish" "and you get more flies with honey than vinger" i dont see why it was banned, i pointed out the obvious with the person who said theyd punch someones lights out over a tv-thats a bit far isnt it.
I cant believe my post was banned when all i put was the above, ive seen alot worse on this fourm along the lines of bullying and no one bans it...
god knows lol.. i saw someone on this thread say something about punching someones lights out.:rotfl: maybe it was due to you qouting it????Sealed pot challenger # 10
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and OP should not have sold the item in question unless it was tested,
see this is my problem - why?
why should he have done.
it might have been better practice. it might have avoided problems, but he sold it as untested and the buyer bought it for cheaper than if it had been sold as working (presumably)Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott
It's amazing how those with a can-do attitude and willingness to 'pitch in and work' get all the luck, isn't it?
Please consider buying some pet food and giving it to your local food bank collection or animal charity. Animals aren't to blame for the cost of living crisis.0 -
see this is my problem - why?
why should he have done.
it might have been better practice. it might have avoided problems, but he sold it as untested and the buyer bought it for cheaper than if it had been sold as working (presumably)
Personally when i see 'untested' i automatically assume it means 'not working'.
Its always amusing when i see people selling 5 year old laptop batteries as 'untested' and 'sold as seen' when quite clearly they know its not working.0 -
I'd tell him to open a paypal dispute and return it. Then I'd refund.
Because then he wouldn't have had this problem. Yes you can sell faulty items but the OP did not list it as suchsee this is my problem - why?
why should he have done.Jon_Burrage wrote:I listed it as working 2 months ago (before a house move) but that it had been in storage for 2 months and as such had not been tested since the move, I said that it worked fine and we had never had a problem
So the OP implied it was working. Sold it from a place that was impossible for the buyer to test the TV. So as much as the buyer is being a !!!!!! by threatening silly things. The OP really made problems with the sale by listing it in such a way as to implied it was working.
If the OP had just listed it as Spares or Repairs fair enough but he didn'tjon_burrage wrote:I said that it worked fine and we had never had a problem
The OP should morally refund he's making himself look dishonest and a scammer by not doing such.0 -
I just don't see it. The op is a person, a member of the public who sold a spare item that they didn't want and that was talking up space.
They said it HAD been working and then was in storage and HADN'T been tested.
From what I gather the op got around to listing it after sorting out after the move and didn't really think it through and yes, if it were me I'd accept a refund and offer to collect/tell them to keep it.
but I wouldn't after being threatened.
It's up to the buyer to, as said above, accept that if it's a pig in a poke - beware.
If they acted reasonably in contacting the op, then the op should refund.
Threats are not and are never reasonable.Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott
It's amazing how those with a can-do attitude and willingness to 'pitch in and work' get all the luck, isn't it?
Please consider buying some pet food and giving it to your local food bank collection or animal charity. Animals aren't to blame for the cost of living crisis.0
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