Don't have a fake account. I'm Seth Allen, I'm well known on these forums and you know right where I am.

Forgot about roof skin, that was solid.

Used rear calipers were seized, which sucked considering the reason I bought local was to avoid the rock auto wait. They were sold as functional. Ended up being sent in as cores. Axle threads were trashed on one of them and I ended up having to re-thread it to save it and allow it to thread on the axle nut. With both items I ended up having to sink more of my time into them to make it work.

And yes I've been blocked from your facebook classified group for calling a square a square and hurting someones feelings. Don't care.

Skeese

Aka Seth Allen

 

Seth, If I sold anything to you you seen them before buying. You knew the history of them. You said you were going to rebuild them anyways lmao....

Now you say this? Its funny!!

Carry on sir...

 

Spin it however you want Wayne, no way to tell a caliper was seized in a burger king parking lot off the side of the freeway in the dark, said I was going to rebuild the ones I was replacing and then resell. And axles I did call out but I got the ooooohh noooo they're fine response from you and didn't have an axle nut on hand sooooo again I went with your word and lost, which to yor credit was my mistake. Which is why I didn't bring it up, you had already proven to be a waste of time.

Its like the Nader thing where continuing to deal with the person just causes more delays and bullshit than just moving on and doing it yourself.

Skeese

 

I cant keep up with your fake profiles so I dont even know if seth is the real one or not.

If you had an issue with so called messed up parts you would have let me know. Now that I blocked you, you have a problem. Funny isnt it? Lol...

 

As someone who doesn't work on their own car, I can understand how much of a pain in the *** this can be. I don't know what the buyers situation is but if it were me, this would be a huge inconvenience. The seller is certainly doing the right thing but I think it's unfortunate that he's not willing to give back some of the money to make things right (for the bulbs, the mileage, the trouble and especially if the oil gauge was the issue). If I were in this situation, I'd have to pay for RnR on a cluster (I can change clusters now but there was a time where I couldn't). I do think it really sucks that some bulbs were out. As for the oil pressure gauge, it's reasonable to try to fix that on the buyers side for sure since it is a known point of failure but even that would have cost labor and parts to do and it would suck if the sender was ok and it was the cluster after all.

Maybe the extra 4k miles can cause issues with car insurances that have yearly limits? God forbid you get into an accident with the cluster change and your cluster reads 4k over. You're going to have to have a long conversation with your insurance company and hope that they're understanding. I doubt that is the case here but there are scenarios where this can be important. As far as doing the math with a new cluster, if you're mileage is really off, it can hurt resale value.

This is certainly reasonable if someone does all their own work. I know it's a pain in the *** to test things and I know people just say perfect working order for the sake of brevity but things would be easier to swallow if it was stated up front that the cluster in question was sitting on a shelf for years. If I heard that the part was sitting on a shelf, I would have asked that the cluster be tested, maybe with video proof and this whole situation wouldn't have happened.


I do think the buyer is due at least some money back. The buyer obviously should not have sold his cluster before he himself was able to test the new one but I can at least understand why he sold it. He was expecting a 100% working cluster. As for the seller, I think he should try to bend a little more. Why not throw back a $50 refund or anything. Throw the guy a bone. After all, the buyer might be right about the oil gauge being bad right and the damage might have happened during storage or shipping.

 

Its always been "buyer beware" on this forum as long as ive been here, over 15 years. If you want to trust the guy that's selling you something, thats your call. If you dont work on your own car, and you dont want to have to deal with a situation like the one at hand, buy a brand new cluster. Simple.

 

What would you do if you bought a part from a store and it didn’t work? Ask the store to fix it or just return it and get another one elsewhere?

 

Funny, not many seem to disagree with me other than you and the facebook kiddies like Chris Chance and the Rotarymaster. Would you care to begin comparing feedback going back close to 20 years, or do you just want to drop the **** and talk that trash to someone else?




This ain't walmart, your satisfaction is not guaranteed, this ain't burger king, you don't get it your way right away. If you buy an item from lowe's and you get home and find out it doesnt work to your liking etc., does lowes come get it at your house and refund you? Do they refund you for the gas you spent to drive there and buy it to begin with? Do they give you a partial refund and let you keep the item? No, you march your happy *** back in the store and give them their part back and get your original purchase price back, less original and return transportation costs. Why is this different?

These are used 25 year old electronic car parts that are known to be problematic. Anyone who expects perfection from a used electronic part that hasn't been repaired or calibrated recently is deluding themselves. I've sent out plenty of FD clusters for repair and it's nothing unusual for them to need attention in one way or another. These issues are well documented on this very forum.

 

Again, I sold OP a 100% working cluster. Missing bulb would be the check engine light as it's common on PFC cars, etc

Oil pressure was most certainly 100% working no problem what so ever before it left my hands.

Miles were my fault as I stated 52k but I'm not crediting him $150 for a low mile cluster. I'd gladly refund his $500 plus $56 shipping/fee.

He wont send it back bc the cheapest cluster for sale with that type of miles is $850.

Has nothing to do with he sold his cluster, there is a jdm cluster local to him for $150 for his jdm car.

His video showed the gauge working so not like he couldn't read oil pressure. Exact same issue on 4 out of 5 FDs I've owned and it was a sending unit problem.

AGAIN...

I'll gladly refund you in full after all your BS, After PayPal Closed YOUR claim and this post.

Please send it back, I'll credit for return shipping

 

This doesnt seem to be the first type OP tried to pull this type of stuff on someone either.

He says PayPal always took his side and gave him his money and he kept the part.. lmao. What a tool!!!

 

First off dont call me a tool because if you were honest none of this would of happen. Ive already let the situation go, maybe you should too.

 

Agreed on buyer beware but as members of a community, I think it's fair to assume that we aren't out to scam each other. I'm not saying that this was the case in this situation here but if someone is selling something as 100% working, there is NO wiggle room here. Now what happened in the context of this thread? I'm not sure. I don't suspect that there is really any foul play here but I do think that this situation could be resolved to the satisfaction of both parties with a little more effort. I also agree that with used parts, a thorough inspection is in order. I've had the cluster replaced on both of my fds and they were definitely at least somewhat tested before buttoning up the car. As far as working on your own car or not...that really has nothing to do with anything IMO.

 

Wait, what?

 

Customer satisfaction is not all that complicated.
"All my parts may be returned if not satisfied".......I have shipped several thousand parts and 4 have been returned.

 

My statements about me not doing the work myself have to do with people being dismissive about complaints the OP was having. I don't think it's right to call them trivial because in my situation, I could see how they could be a significant set back in time and money.

As far as my statement about not doing your own work being irrelevant, it was in regard to your statement about having to need to buy everything in new condition. If I see a used greddy elbow advertised as 100% working condition, I see it as a good alternative to buying new whether I do my own work or not.

I've explained my position in my previous post so I won't reiterate it. I'll only say that in my 11 years on this forum (maybe not 15 like yours), I've had tons of transactions and sometimes, some of them didn't go right. Hell, sometimes, it looked quite apparent that I've been swindled but you give someone the benefit of the doubt and it's been my experience that they're usually more willing to make things right whether it be in this transaction or the next. Both parties may not be able to leave totally happy with the transaction but they can at least leave not upset.

 

Good policy. Which is what the seller seems to be abiding by - but the buyer ant to make his own rules.

Messy situation for sure.