hobbes wrote:
To the Group:

Please consider the following scenario. Back in October 2004 a person
places an ad in "rec.radio.swap" looking for a filter for his Ten Tec radio.
I have such a working filter that is surplus to my needs since I sold a Ten
Tec radio some two weeks earlier to an individual who did not want the
filter. I respond to the individual looking for the filter that I want $65
for the filter and shipping. He sends me a postal money order, I send him
filter, and I hear nothing.

Yesterday, February 25, 2005, some four months later, I receive an e-mail
from the individual who purchased the filter advising me that the filter is
dead. According to him, he never used the filter, but he had a freiend
install the filter in a radio and found it to be dead.

Question - The filter was working when I removed it from my radio and
subsequently sent it to him. Shouldn't he have advised me shortly after he
received the filter that it did not work? I have no way of telling whether
the filter was mishandled or installed improperly. If you were me would you
return the money he paid for his purchase some four months earlier.

NO!

Even if you had guaranteed it not DOA (a standard policy,) he would have
no knowledge of its "arrival" condition four months later. Maybe it got
zapped sitting on his desk or fried by the tech who installed it. Four
months is way too long from "arrival" for any "guarantee" to remain valid.

I think 30 days sounds about right. That means I had better check out
the amp I bought 3 weeks ago!

Tom