HELP, I need your Opinoins please

[WarPiper]

can some one please tell me if $550 is alot of a A4000 with video toaster card 4000, cybervision 64 3d kickstart 3.1 OS 3.9 2Gb Hard drive and 48X cdrom drive and cyberstorm 060 with 96MB onboard (as is) and an extra 060 cpu, and to boot, I was including 2 monitors with that system 1960 and commodore 2002. he paid $550. for the auction and only an additional $70 for shipping due to my miscalculation, so I had to put out an additional $75 out of my pocket for shipping. the item was being shipped from Brooklyn, NY to Calgary Alberta Canada, the a4000 TOASTER SYSTEM GOT THERE FINE, but the monitors got there broken, and now he wants me to put in a claim with UPS.

UPS only settles claims with the shipper, I had brought the computer and the monitor to a professional packing company to be boxed and shipped, so they are the ones that have to put in the claim and after I had informed them they said will do so.

Contacting Ebay I asked them if the damaged monitors are my responsibility and they said no.

can you please tell me where I jipped this guy out of money, I mean the Auction was for Amiga 4000 Video Toaster System, I just happend to included the monitors.

the auction was won by BUY IT NOW for the price of $550. and I only charged him $70.00 for shipping instead of the actual price of $145 due to my mistake.

PLEASE JUST LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.

Please note that the monitors were working great the day they were packed

here goes a link to that auction, please let me know what you think.  Also he refuses to leave me positive feedback and for some reason when looking at the feedback I left him the aution number comes up as private, so here is the LINK:

Warpiper's A4000 auction

I THINK I HAVE BEEN FAIR WITH HIM AND HAVE DONE EVERYTHING I REASONABLY CAN DO.

[WarPiper]

ok thanks but the accellerator was not PPC just and 060 with an extra 060 on the side, just incase he had another accellerator that needed an 060.

[WarPiper]

I wish I would have known you wanted it, I am sure that you would have enjoyed it more, and be very pleased.

[WarPiper]

I also sent him two copies of the Toaster 4.1 install CD, in fact its the exact same one that he is also selling.  And the fact that his feedback is private kinda bothers me, as he has not left me any feedback yet and refused to leave good feedback unless I some how compensate him.

[WarPiper]

@ ambientdistortions

I try to take of my stuff the best I can, there was alot of love put into that machine over the past years, for me to know that he is peicing it out then reselling it, does not bother it, I mean after all, its his, but what bothers me is the fact the monitors were handled badly.

But what really topped that is the fact that he is holding positive feeback to me over my head for the insurance money, if any, that UPS may award in the claim that was put in.

here is an excerpt of some of the conversations we have had via Email:

hi  peter,
 
we have received the computer and the monitors. the computer arrived safely and in one piece. both monitors arrived smashed, none of them are working. there are major scratches and cracks throughout the monitors indicating that they were dropped? i have agreed in our phone call conversation to pay you extra $20 and asked repeatedly to insure that the monitors are packed safely, unfortuantely i will not be able to leave you positive feedback until you reimburs me for the damaged monitors. i hope we can resolve the matter fairly so both parties are satisfied, please let us know.
 
 
regards,
Dominik S



From: Peter
To: Dominik S
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: payment for the A4000


Dominik,
 
I have called UPS and they told me that the settle claims with the shipper, as I said I had sent it through a professional packing/shipping company that ships UPS, I have contacted them also and told them of the damaged monitors and they said that they will contact UPS and get a claim started, and will notify me when UPS contacts them.  Not knowing that the shipping was going to cost so much due to miscalculation, I paid out of my pocket a total of $75 additional, so please dont think that you are the only one who had lost money, also the title of the auction was " Amiga 4000 Video Toaster System " and I was including the monitors, so for 550.00 for the 4000/040 and video toaster 4000 card w/documentation and setup disks, the accellerator card with the 2 060's, cybervision 64/3d, 2 Gb hard drive and the cdrom drive, lightwave 5 with backup copy, and ONLY $70 for shipping, I can not see where I have done you wrong (even though the monitors did not make the trip, remember I did also lose money on the shipping, its not like I did not try, and I can not control how UPS takes care of packages.Thats about as much as I can do for you.  I also had contacted Ebay and they said that the claim is your responsibilty, and I am helping you with that too.
----- Original Message -----
hi,
 
we are not blaming you for the damages to the monitors but are seeking assistance to recover the insurance money to cover the monitors it is essential to operate amiga type monitors. the insurance funds will allow me to buy new ones on ebay. we appreciate your help on this matter and will leave positive feedback upon finalizing the insurance claim.
 
regards,
Dominik S

[color=CC0000]Just to let you guys know, I intend on recouping my loss in the shipping fee's befor I reimburse him for any loss's and if he cant deal with that too bad, cuase I dont care about his feed back right now[/color]

and if he leaves nagative feedback, I will respond by creating a web page and post every Email from and to him, leaving the link warning about him in my responce feedback, then I would make a complaint to ebay.

ebay has stated that the comment stated by him, about him not going to leave me positive feedback untill I reimburse him, can be viewd as a violation of Ebay's turms and conditions, and that I can report him, but me not being a real PRICK!! I will not do that, unless he really gets under my skin.