Be careful if you sell stuff 'online'

Started by MACMan, June 06, 2016, 10:33:26 AM

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MACMan

Scumbags are everywhere, both buyers and sellers.

QuoteINDIANAPOLIS --- Selling a used, black-and-white printer through Craigslist seemed simple and straightforward to Doug Costello.

It wasn't.

What the 66-year-old Massachusetts man didn't know then is that he would spend the next 6 ½ years embroiled in a complicated and confusing legal dispute in Indiana over that printer, which, according to its buyer, was broken.

He would find himself liable for about $30,000 in damages. He would pay a lawyer at least $12,000 in his battle to escape the legal mess.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/06/06/man-sued-30k-over-40-printer-he-sold-craigslist/85478168/

tac

They should ship that bastard back to the Ukraine.

I hate Craig's list and the scammers that lurk there.

MACMan

Quote from: tac on June 06, 2016, 10:39:18 AM
They should ship that bastard back to the Ukraine.

I hate Craig's list and the scammers that lurk there.

Why spare the expense?

Where I live, people have told me that there are a lot of abandoned mine shafts that have solved numerous 'problems' over the years.  :wink:

tac