Okay,
I guess I have to reply to this thread at this point, since the Johnny is posting his carefully crafted side of the story and some appear to be buying it.
This guy bought an ARC from me on Ebay back in March. Before he bought it he contacted me several time asking about the power source, since mine is built for the U.S. and he is in the U.K. I finally offered to send him a brand new, in the package power adapter if he bought it, which he did.
I sent him the ARC, which he received. He let me had gotten it and it had a couple of cosmetic issues but nothing he couldn't correct himself. Shortly afterward, he sent me a message saying that he had used the power adapter without reading the instructions set it to 220 and blew the light, asking if I could send a new light. I told him I didn't think he would be able to put a new light since it's built in to the unit. He tried to take the light out and broke the cage doing so. This is when I offered up the battery powered unit and he agreed. It took me longer than I expected to get it ready, but it was developed.
In the meantime, he asked about a display plaque for another item he had bought from me. I never offered a plaque for the item and I honestly don't remember saying I would be providing him with one, but I said that was fine I would make it up and send it with the ARC. He again contacted me and said he had two other items from me with different size plaques could I remake all plaques to the same size? Again, no big deal, he bought an expensive item and plaques are easy to make. I was happy to do it!
At this point it's June and the plaque material is on it's way. I was going to have everything he requested (most of it freebies) and I tell him so in the message he has on Ebay. At this point, he send me email (not using the Ebay message system) going ballistic, accusing me of being a thief, liar, crook, etc. Going to notify the IRS, FBI, you name it. Verbal abuse, the works. I don't know why at this point he decided to go postal on me but he did. At that point I end the relationship.
I have 3 plaques, a battery ARC cage and a shipping label I paid $30 for sitting here, but when he started the threats I bulldog and will not send them.
Just to clarify,
1. I sent a free power adapter with his ARC because I was trying to be nice.
2. He burned out the ARC lights through his own stupidity and broke the cage through his own impatience.
3. There was cosmetic Damage initially, but nothing serious.
4. The Case was never mentioned as being damaged until he started posting his auctions.
5. He began asking for free things (small in nature) which I would have been happy to provide.
6. He went postal and threatened me.
7. He has the luxury of cherry picking messages to make me look bad.
8. He is careful to send threatening messages only through emails and not the Ebay message system.
Can I be slow? Yes, I admit it and try to fess up when I am
Do I attack and threaten people? Never!
But I guess he wins, since this thread is exactly what he wanted to achieve with his auction.
As a side note (which is actually quite ironic), about three weeks ago Marvel politely asked me to stop selling ARC reactor publicly.:thumbsup
