Not sure if this is the right place for this, but it is technical support of the legal type.....
I sold some guy a custom built computer. I signed a bill of sale for him, and he payed me cash for the computer, as it was a local pickup deal from craigslist.
He requested it be complete minus the hard drive, as he had one for it and he could talk me down more by removing the drive fom the deal.
He calls me the next day because the computer won't boot. I had left an Ubuntu Live CD in the CDROM that I used to make a final assurance that the computer functioned ok and didn't provide any errors while booting with no hard drive. It ran flawlessly on the Ubuntu Live CD.
He said that the computer booted fine to Ubuntu before he opened the case and installed the hard drive and did whatever else he did to it to make it not boot, post or anything.
He called me a bunch of times over it and said he wanted his money back cuz the computer is broke. I refused to take the computer back because the deal was done and he broke the computer. I offered to help him troubleshoot more, but he wanted his money back.
He said he was going to sue me for the $210 he paid for this computer.
He has now sent me some legal scare document suggesting that I give him his money back and some other legal mumbo jumbo.
Does he have a chance against me? He admitted the comp. worked before he opened it. He is not a certified computer repair person, therefore why should I be held liable for his neglegence? I plan on seeing this through to court just to see what happens, I'm not out much either way, but what do you guys think?
There was no as-is clause in the bill of sale.
Thanks.
I sold some guy a custom built computer. I signed a bill of sale for him, and he payed me cash for the computer, as it was a local pickup deal from craigslist.
He requested it be complete minus the hard drive, as he had one for it and he could talk me down more by removing the drive fom the deal.
He calls me the next day because the computer won't boot. I had left an Ubuntu Live CD in the CDROM that I used to make a final assurance that the computer functioned ok and didn't provide any errors while booting with no hard drive. It ran flawlessly on the Ubuntu Live CD.
He said that the computer booted fine to Ubuntu before he opened the case and installed the hard drive and did whatever else he did to it to make it not boot, post or anything.
He called me a bunch of times over it and said he wanted his money back cuz the computer is broke. I refused to take the computer back because the deal was done and he broke the computer. I offered to help him troubleshoot more, but he wanted his money back.
He said he was going to sue me for the $210 he paid for this computer.
He has now sent me some legal scare document suggesting that I give him his money back and some other legal mumbo jumbo.
Does he have a chance against me? He admitted the comp. worked before he opened it. He is not a certified computer repair person, therefore why should I be held liable for his neglegence? I plan on seeing this through to court just to see what happens, I'm not out much either way, but what do you guys think?
There was no as-is clause in the bill of sale.
Thanks.
