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OT - well sort of - warning I'm long-winded
myntik1:
I guess I didn't word my original rant clearly. The payment was in the process of clearing when PayPal put the master lock on their account. When I rec'd the item I sat on it for about a month. I couldn't send them a message through ebay and PayPal had frozen their account. After a month with no contact from the seller I sent it to Archos to have it fixed.
Last night I googled their screen name and found out that they paid 67 for the unit from the wholesaler 'as is'. I like the item, but not enough to give them the original price. The My Name is Earl voice in my head says meet them half way ($38.50). They bought a broken unit, toss them half of what they paid for it. No one is going to give them more than that for a broken unit. The other voice in my head says they tried to scam me and it backfired so I owe them nothing.
pmc:
Last time something like that happened to me, I negotiated a fair price with the seller. The item arrived in less than advertised mechanical condition and I asked to return it. The seller asked for a fair price instead. I made an offer and he refunded the difference in Paypal. I got a deal and he got rid of his broken item and avoided the hassle of a return and re-listing.
If it was me in your shoes, I would have returned it rather than fixing it. But you want to keep it, so at this point I'd negotiate a fair price with seller. The seller doesn't have the item or the money and from your story, they are probably simply out to cover their expenses from the upstream sour deal.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me really dislike using eBay. It adds alot of stress that, in the end, outweighs the benefit. I hope your expense is still a good deal in the end. Can you please post when this gets resolved? You got me real curious how the story will end.
-pmc
ChadTower:
The law in local transactions generally goes thusly:
1) Return the broken item and receive full refund.
or
2) Repair the item and subtract repair cost from the original purchase price.
pmc:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 07, 2006, 05:18:36 pm ---
The law in local transactions generally goes thusly:
1) Return the broken item and receive full refund.
or
2) Repair the item and subtract repair cost from the original purchase price.
--- End quote ---
That makes perfect sense. Do sellers generally follow that practice on eBay? I haven't gotten enough broken stuff to see those scenarios play out.
Hmmm... that means that myntik1 owes $5 versus the $105 the seller is likely to be demanding.
-pmc
ChadTower:
No, those sellers use ebay specifically to avoid accountability for the broken item.
What makes this situation so unusual is that he has the item but has not paid. Usually the person is just out their cash for a broken item.
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