Friday, 19 June 2009

Caveat emptor


I,m not public school educated, i never took Latin classes or did any studies of dead languages, how ever even i know this one.
Caveat emptor, or "let the buyer beware".
I recently sold some old gaming items at a car boot in my local area, i wont say which one in case the man in question is reading.
I had an N64 with 12 games, a super gamboy adaptor and an old snes with 15 games including Mario cart and Mario world 2.
This man comes up to the stall and asks how much for the SNES, i say £5 for the great games and £3 for the others and £20 for the snes, 2x controllers and the gameboy thingy.
He then asked me if it worked and was it complete? Now i had no idea if it worked, it was in my spare room in a plastic box with the rest of my old stuff, i told him this and that i was selling it as seen, so he purchased the lot for £35 (the games alone were worth £50 if i sold em on eBay) he took the lot.
i sold the rest for a good price and started to pack up, that's when he cam back, the RF cable was not in the box and he wanted £10 back, well i told him to take a hike, i had told him it was all that was in the box and that if had not checked it was not my problem.
Now he stormed off using allot of blue language and hand signals, stick and stones, always check what your buying, I'm not a con man and had no idea the RF was not in there, u can by on on the next stall for £1, its the principle