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In Reply to: breaking a promise - losing confidence in a seller! posted by Don T on April 11, 2007 at 16:32:16:
I would be upset at anyone who committed to a purchase and then backed out at the last minute, but I would not resort to calling them names. You backed out of the deal at the last minute for no good reason. Giving bad directions and losing phone numbers has no correlation to competence at modding equipment. Haven't you ever lost a phone number?Why on earth did you agree to meet for lunch at a location neither of you was familiar with? If you had any doubts about the modifications to the equipment (understandable), why wouldn't you go to his place to audition it first? A local sale is a special opportunity for two parties with a strong common interest to meet and exchange ideas as well as money and equipment. If you didn't like what you heard at an audition, I would approve of your backing out, even if you had made a commitment to buy. If the guy told you to get lost or was intentionally rude, I could accept your backing out. Just for missing a rendezvous of questionable value, I can't understand your backing out, especially when the guy tried to get in touch and apologized. Your analogy to a job application is a poor one. More like: you gave him the job and then fired him before he showed up for his first day of work.
If you don't want people to call you at work, don't give them your work number. Did you see something at that local audio shop that influenced your decision? It seems strange that you would shop for an amp to match a preamp you hadn't bought yet.
I think you did chicken out, and this is just your excuse. You owe him an apology. Maybe you should call him when you're both more at ease. Things might still work out, unless you don't really want them to...
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He wasn't concerned enough to give me proper direction to where to meet him, he wasn't concerned enough not to lose my cell phone number twice and he wasn't concerned not to contact the front desk of my employer.Why in the heck should I continue to expect him to be concerned about the work he did on this gear or concerned enough to care whether or not I'm happy with the gear after I fork over my money? There's no reason for me to expect anything more than what he's already demonstrated and that's a complete lack of concern. Why should he give a care?
Give me rhythm or give me death!
I think maybe your boss wouldn't like knowing that you deal in personal matters on office time?
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one: the call automatically transfers to the operator who will/has to identify the company: "Good morning, Prudho Plumbing, how may I direct your call?"two: the call goes to the extension's voice mail with its message: "Prudho Plumbing, you have reached the desk of Adrian, Please leave....."
So, either way, the caller will find out the name of the OP's workplace and can then call the "front desk".
Dave
Later Gator,
Crank up your talking machine, grab a jar of your favorite "kick-back", sit down, relax, and let the good times roll.Eagles may soar, but weasels do not get sucked into jet engines.
"Giving bad directions and losing phone numbers has no correlation to competence at modding equipment."It has correlation to being an air head and as such, I wouldn't trust the dim whit with modding expensive audio gear!
I would back out of the deal too. If the guy doesn't have his act together for simple life matters, I would question his ability to tie his own shoes let alone modify electronic equipment.
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