On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:36:33PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On June 11, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
> > The bad news is I found a System/36 model 5362 (complete) for $50 at a
> > thrift in Houston and I paid the folks for it and asked if I could pick
> > it up the next day as I would need a truck to carry it. They said ok
> > and when I came back to pick it up someone had trashed the machine by
> > taking out 5 cards and breaking them up on the floor next to the unit.
> > I asked the store manager to adjusted the price I had paid for it but
> > they said I had purchased it "AS IS" and said it was not trashed when I
> > purchased it the day before. They did agree to lower the price on a Mac
> > 145B powerbook that I found sitting on the shelf there as a way to
> > settle my problem. I have never had anything like this happen before.
>
> Wow, that *sucks*. Sounds like somebody needs some broken fingers.
> Sorry to hear that, man.
Indeed!
IANAL, but that strikes me as an extremely actionable offense: "I paid
for it." They accepted it, There are implied contracts here. If that
had happened to me, I would have left a smoking crater, figuratively
speaking, where that store used to be. Some things shouldn't be tolerated.
I'd consult a lawyer.
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Received on Sun Jun 11 2000 - 13:22:24 BST