Posted on 06/06/2016 10:29:09 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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.
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Simple. Find him and burn his house down.
Lather. rinse. repeat.
Zavodnik should be stripped of his US citizenship and sent back to Ukraine. The man is cleary abusing our system for personal gain.
Damages should be limited to replacement cost.
“The man is cleary abusing our system for personal gain.”
It’s the system that stinks——getting rid of him would accomplish nothing.
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WITH HIM IN IT.
A perfect example of why we need “loser pays.”
When my printer runs out of ink I take it to recycling at the city dump
YES, YES, YES!
Damages should be limited to replacement cost.....I doubt he had ANY damages. Got it for $40, sold it for $45 and sued.
That’s what happens when you have too many idle lawyers looking for work.
With all the different nightmare stories that have appeared over the years, I don’t how Craigslist is still around or why people use it. Personally I would’ve thrown away the obsolete printer or donated it to the local thrift store and took a tax deduction.
He should have filed a motion to dismiss and a counter-suit demanding damages and recovery of legal expenses for frivolous litigation.
LOL. HP and Gillete have the same marketing philosophy: sell the razors (printers) at cost or less, then make a pot of money selling the blades (ink). Just try to buy a fairly small replacement part for a HP printer; you’ll find it costs almost as much as the whole printer did.
Back in the day when I ran a small computer store I would sell these cheap dot-matrix printers that used the old fashioned ink spools for typewriters.
I would show the buyer how to re-ink the spools using a bottle of ink.
It was a cheap way to go...those old printers lasted a LONG time.
You see this crap and it just strikes fear in you because it is over nothing and it could happen to anyone. It is random and unjustified. It makes me hate other people and woant not a thing to do with them.
I’ve sold stuff on Craigslist. Usually furniture. A couple of cars. Never had a problem. Small stuff I load up and take to Goodwill.
I would show the buyer how to re-ink the spools using a bottle of ink.
Actually WD-40 worked really great. Just pop open the cartridge and lightly spray the top edge of the ribbon with it, and let it set for a day or so.
The WD-40 would disperse the unused ink along the edges of the ribbon evenly throughout the surface. You let it set for a day or so to let the WD-40 evaporate. You could reuse the ribbon until you started to wear holes in it.
And remember the little re-inking machines you could buy to re-ink cartridges or spools.
When the courts fail you, you have to think outside the box. I have heard accounts from others over the decades how they dealt with issues. Sending a couple of goons to do a beatdown. Or stripping a home of contents. Or other unconventional methods. Each one worked.
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