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Article #12410**** BAD Deal with bigelos@hobo.ece.orst.edu ****
From: Bruce Sarte
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 14:12
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 14:12
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On May 7, 1993 Steve Bigelow posted to the above Newsgroups (article #74882 in misc.forsale) for Glen Anderson that a Citizen Overture 110 Laser Printer was for sale. Said article specifically said that the printer was in "EXCELLENT" condition and had recently had the drum replaced. My son (19 years old and a sophomore in college) had been looking for a good laser printer. When I read the post for this printer, I made a copy of the post and gave it to my son. He called the number in the post and spoke to Glen Anderson. A deal was struck for $400 ($375 for the printer with $25 shipping costs). My son sent Glen a check in the mail and Glen shipped the printer to my son and it was received on about May 21. This is where the problems started, when Glen shipped the printer, he did NOT remove the roller and toner cartridge(s). The inside of the printer was entirely covered with toner and the printer would simply not work. My son contacted Glen about the situation the day after the printer was received. Glen insisted that my son try to put the problem off on Federal Express (trying to implicate that the printer had been damaged during shipment). Glen contacted Federal Express and Federal Express in turn contatced my son to get an estimate of what was wrong with the printer. My son did so (at an additional cost of $26.50) and the estimate was forwarded to Federal Express. This was on or about May 26. When we did NOT hear from Glen or Federal Express for about two weeks, a call was placed to Glen. Glen tried to get my son to wait until Federal Express settled the claim. I spoke to Glen and informed him that this was NOT acceptable since Federal Express would reimburse him and not my son, so therefore we would like to know what his plans were to get the printer fixed or refund my son's money since the printer was specifically sold as in "EXCELLENT" condition. Glen told me that it was a bad week since he was in the middle of final exams and that he would get back to us by the end of the week (this was on June 8, 1993), so we were expecting to hear from him by the weekend of June 12-13. To date we have NOT heard from him and when we call the number, there is simply no answer. He has probably left school for the summer. As a result, Glen Anderson has been paid $400 by my son for a printer that does NOT work and he may have a chance at getting another $375 from Federal Express. In my estimation, this is a total rip off by this guy. He straight out lied to me on the phone about what his intentions were. So, if anybody knows this Glen Anderson or deals with him or the guy who's account (Steve Bigelow) the original post was made from, stay away from both of them. If anyone does come into contact with them, I would appreciate any E-Mail on how I can get my hands on them. Bruce (bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1068cb,21f0ecd6337b3141,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1068cb,public X-Google-Thread: f8c6e,21f0ecd6337b3141,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c6e,public X-Google-Thread: 1147c7,21f0ecd6337b3141,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1147c7,public X-Google-Thread: f9f5e,21f0ecd6337b3141,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf9f5e,public X-Google-Thread: 115e0f,21f0ecd6337b3141,start X-Google-Attributes: gid115e0f,public X-Google-Thread: 109c0d,21f0ecd6337b3141,start X-Google-Attributes: gid109c0d,public X-Google-Thread: 101cce,21f0ecd6337b3141,start X-Google-Attributes: gid101cce,public X-Google-Thread: 111f31,21f0ecd6337b3141,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111f31,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-06-24 09:15:44 PST Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers,orst.forsale,misc.forsale,misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone,misc.forsale.computers.other,cor.forsale,or.forsale,pnw.forsale,pdx.forsale Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!bs24 From: bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte) Subject: **** BAD Deal with bigelos@hobo.ece.orst.edu **** Message-ID: <1993Jun24.141219.13780@news.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixf.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte) Organization: Columbia University Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 14:12:19 GMT Lines: 57