Re: No Returns Policy?

On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:56:03 GMT, "Grymma" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I therefore asked:
"If the item were found to be faulty (I would hope not, of course)- do you
have a returns policy?"

- to be replied "No, sorry".

Now obviously I'm going to think twice about bidding on such an item, but I
wonder, can a person, who certainly /appears/ to be a trader, have no
returns policy?

They should accept a DSR return as they are trading. You would
probably find they wouldn't and your only recourse would have to be
through a small claim. Whether or not that would succeed isn't
absolutely certain as it would depend to some extent upon the
district judges knowledge of on-line trading and his (lack of)
sympathy for someone trying to return something sold as unserviceable
because it was unserviceable.

As far as the Sale of Goods Act is concerned you would have no
recourse if it turned out to be dead as it is very clearly being
advertised as possibly being faulty (which in eBay speak, for
processors usually means "You can absolutely guarantee this won't
work"). Faults which are pointed out before sale cannot be used as
reasons for rejection later.

You certainly can't fault the clarity of the sellers descriptions. It
seems to me they have thought up a perfectly honest cunning plan to
get people to willingly pay small amounts to take away junk they
would otherwise have to give someone money to skip! :-)

I'm a bit puzzled as to why anyone would buy faulty processors
though.


--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/
.

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