You may be right BUT...
SNIP
After a week
went by
and I received an email that it did not work.
SNIP
I TOLD HIM
it was
fully working here and he either blew out the preamp by hooking up the cables
backwards (out and in mix up) or he had the same unit and swapped "my"
working guts
with his broken item and he now wanted to return it for a refund.. I never
heard
from him again. Seems like one scenario was correct!! So "as-is" belongs in
the
description.

Your situation is different from what we're discussing. What I have a problem
with, and I think a lot of people would agree, are people that post messages
here or sell things on Ebay saying "This is a great dualbander, but "as with
all electronics, it is sold as-is"". I've seen many descriptions like that.
Where "as with all electronics" being sold "as-is" came from, I'll never know.
Electronic items, just like any other item, should be sold "as-described", not
"as-is". Warentees aren't needed, just some assurance that the item is as
described with an accurate description of any and all known problems.

When you buy a 5 year old car from a private citizen do you get a warrantee??
just my .02 cents!

From a private citizen, no. From a dealership, maybe a 90 day warentee. Just
like on Ebay - if I sell you a radio, I'm not going to guarentee that it'll be
working 30 days from now, but if you buy it from a business, it'll probably be
warenteed for a period of time. It's all a crap shoot when you buy used, but
it's also why things cost less than new!
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