As I've said before, sorry but anybody buying one of his NOS Amigas has no right to complain. He said they had been sitting in a warehouse for 15 years, and that they were untested. If you wanted one to play with, you should have bought a used tested one for a fraction of the price from eBay.
Why is everyone so protective about Petro?
Sure. Good work at bringing us NOS Amigas and I think most of us who purchased one did read the disclaimer.
Here's the thing though.
He never mentioned that these supposedly NOS Amigas came with a whole bunch of retroactively fitted parts. I mean, just from looking at the manuals inside the Magic Pack software bundle you can tell those have been thrown in used (lots of stains on them). The Amigas have also been taken out of their package at least once before being shipped (the seal on the back has been broken and the case looks like it has been cleaned).
Lastly, what I (a former student of European economics) find rather disturbing is the fact that he (as a CEO of a company) doesn't really seem to know a lot about EU consumer laws.
If someone was willing to sue him, I'm sure this person would've a good chance to win the case.
The disclaimer that could be found on any of his invoices is very much at odds with EU directive 1999/44/EC, which outlines a seller's obligation to take returns on faulty items for 2 years (due to some technicalities, it actually comes down to only a six month period upon which the consumer may return faulty items at all times with no penalties applied. But that's a different story altoghether).
Worse still, some national laws (including the law of the country Petro has set up business in) grant consumers a 14 day right of withdrawal on any physical good bought online*.
What I basically want to say with all this is that while I'm certainly grateful he made this possible, he should try to learn a thing or two about today's business laws before getting his current company into legal troubles.
*What makes this the worse part (from a sellers point of view), is the fact that his inability to inform costumers of this right lead to an extension to 30 months (German law) or one year (if that EU directive is already in place. I'm admittedly a bit rusty myself).
