For the newbies to this thread, who don't want to take the 2 hours to read it completely, I thought I would outline a quick summary of what has happened in the last year:
July '07-Contacted by a kid in Knoxville that want's to buy my boat that was for sale on Craigslist. He drove to Nashville, we took the boat out for a 30 minute test ride with my family. My daughter even skied behind it. He liked it. He bought it. He signed a bill of sale that stated "this boat is sold as is, with no warranties". The next day, after about 4 hours on a lake in Knoxville the boat throws a rod, or something bad, it busted! Kid and Mom want to bring boat back and have me refund money. They are pretty obnoxious about it. After talking to my lawyer. I tell them no.
August '07-Get a warrant from Knoxville General Sessions Court. I'm being sued and have to travel about 400 miles round trip to appear. My lawer gets this case dismissed.
Sept '07-Get a warant from Davidson Co. General Sesions Court (Nasvhille). They have come to Nasvhille and are suing me here. They show up in court with a mechanic. My attorney gets the case postponed.
Oct '07-We go to court. They have a mechanic. I don't get a judge but some fill in attorney. SHE awards the plantiff one half the price of the boat. 2100. Her argument is that my Craigslist ad declared the engine to be in excellent condition, and that even though I had a signed bill of sale that said 'as is', I should share the cost. (I did say the engine was in excellent condition, but this was my opinion of it's condition based on how it ran for me the two years I owned it). We file an appeal.
Jan '08-Get a court date for appeal in June. Send buyer notice of appeal.
Jun '08-Send buyer evidence to be used at appeal 3-4 days prior. Go to the appeal, buyer is no show. I win.
Oct '08-Attorney calls me. Buyer claims we never notified them of the appeal. Claims house burned down and never got the mail. Re-Appeal: next Monday Oct 20th.
Oct 20th '08-I Won!
Dec '08-Sold an Iboat's Poster a car! This was funny. mtsuedi contacted me about a craigslist ad. After we talked and hung up, he called me right back and said:"did you happen to start an epic thread on Iboats called sold a boat and it busted!?" I replied:"Yes, I'm country_bumpkin!". LOL! an epic thread!, love it!
Did I leave anything out? Let me know and I'll edit the post. Thanks for all the suppport!
CB
