It doesn't matter....The buyer knew what they received was not what they thought they were buying YET decided to modify the parts they received... That constitutes acceptance of the deal... At the time it was known of an indiscretion/ discrepancy, the buyer should have asked for a refund. If the refund was denied by the seller than the buyer has to file a claim... The ONLY way the buyer is not liable is if they can prove the item they received had a "time table" for its use and another could not be purchased in time for the scheduled event.... I don't condone that actions of the seller and I hope the seller makes good in some way.... Looks like the table will come out nice though....
The problem is, Wendy HAS contacted the seller, even asked for the right rails "GC3 rails, instead of GC2 rails" so they'd bolt up to the rail skirts correctly....her request was denied because "any table mechanic worth a damn" could "Improvise" the situation and make them work! Then, when she asked for the leg stretcher that was missing, after having to listen to the SELLER tell her all about how Brunswick GC's don't need them, they're just there for looks and all that BS....he finally gave in and sent a stretcher...the WRONG one! When Wendy called the seller on that screw up as well, the SELLER then once again, informed Wendy that "any table mechanic worth a damn" could improvise that as well....wrong answer!!!
Now, Wendy has a choice, she can go through all the BS of trying to get her money back by having the SELLER come and pick up this pile of parts and returning her money....but, we live in the real world and guys like this SELLER is NOT only going to refuse to refund her money and refuse to pick up this pile of parts, he's ALSO going to deny doing ANY wrong....so, where does that leave Wendy? All she wanted was a GC3...the one pictured on ebay for sale...the one she THOUGHT she was going to be recieving after she bought the ONLY one listed on EBAY by this seller. Yeah, she could draw this out with the seller over the next 2-3 years to try and get the seller to make things right....but everyday she'd have to look at this pile of shit sitting in the room where she had HOPED to be playing pool...at home. The SELLER knows exactly what he's doing, and KNOWS there's almost no chance of any of this BS coming back on him because it's just not WORTH the effort for about 99% of the people he'd screw over in a sale like this....so, he gets off scott free...with Wendy's money, and I'm quite sure sleeps very well at night....because he just don't care about other people, other than himself.
So, where does that leave Wendy? She already wanted to throw out this pile of shit, and call it a loss, because she was so mad a how the SELLER was treating her, but I talked Wendy into waiting on that idea, and to let me see what I could to to make things right with this pool table. So, rather than take the LONG road to getting a GC3 for Wendy, I decided to go ahead and stick around and turn this pile of parts into a real GC3 that Wendy would enjoy playing pool on for as long as she wanted to play. Wendy and I have been talking about my services when it comes to setting up her pool table, including modifying the rails, installing the Diamond leveling system, and steel plate joining the slates....since LAST year, long before I found out what kind of a mess this pile of parts was....once I actually got to Wendy's house...ready to get started working setting her GC3 up, but when I got here....SUPRISE....SUPRISE!!!!! So, as to not add insult to injury, I'm NOT charging Wendy for anything extra that I didn't already give her a quote on before I arrived....such as making a call to Donny to get a set of GC3 rails sent to Wendy to replace the GC2 rails that don't fit the skirts. I didn;t even charge Wendy to build the leg stretcher...all I want her to be is HAPPY that she bought a Brunswick GC3 that plays wonderfull, and that she enjoys playing pool the rest of her life.
The moral of the story here folks....is BUYER BEWARE, when it comes to buying used GC's off the market, as once you get it, you MAY not be as happy as you were BEFORE you recieved it. There's only a few of us table mechanic's in this country that can really make a GC play right, and even less that can do that on location.
I can say this for sure, I've seen way less problems from customers that have bought used Diamond's than I have who've bought used GC's. But, I'm not talking about ALL Diamond's, the older, and I mean OLDER Diamond Professionals had some serious problems with them as well, BUT...they won't have miss matched parts, that's for damn sure....but, I may still pass on working on some of them if the job comes up....:thumbup:
Glen
