Subject: Re: he killed her!!!
Author: Patrick Hayes
Date: Jul 24, 2005, 10:25 AM
Post ID: 1719199970
andy hill wrote:
| while i realize that i have no obligation to Alex, i still am |
Two answers. One is technical and the other ethical. You already stated
the first. Unless the buyer can identify that you lied about something
and committed fraud.
Now, as to the second, just how badly do you feel? And how do you
balance that against your own economic needs? You have to evaluate what
you told him he was buying. If you said it was old, ripe for
restoration, ignorant of any prior history, look at the photos, then
you're buyer was dumb to race it home instead of carting it home for
thorough examination. You should NOT feel bad. On the other hand, if
you led him to believe it was a competent runner, passed all of your
thorough advance checks, you just did a 300 mile tour, and you advised
him to leave the truck at home, then maybe you should feel bad and part
with some of your profit.
It really is going to depend on how you promoted the vehicle. When I
sell, I go to VERY great lengths to identify, in writing, every wart I
have ever known. Would I feel bad if this happened to me? You bet.
Would I part with some of the money? In my lucrative years maybe, in my
current retired status, no way.
Listen, I have had visitors arrive with badly running bikes on cross
country tours. I ask them if it has points or if the ignition has been
converted to electronic. "I don't know." You mean you just drove
across the nation on a twenty year old moto and you have no idea what
makes your sparks??? Ask me how much sympathy I have for trying to bail
them out with their broken moto. (real case) I'm a nice host, but I
don't suffer fools very well.
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA