On 3/12/12 I receive the following email from Raul,
From: rauliruegas@hotmail.com
To: griffithds@jaws.bz
Subject: RE: Cartridge return
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:34:16 +0000
I just comeback from a rtwo weeks work-trip. I seen the package and tonight I will check it and let you know about.
Regards,
R.
Let me know about? What does he mean by that? Doesn’t sound like refund coming to me!
Following email dated 3/19, sent to me from Raul,
These are my coments on the Empire cartridge subject:
I can't test it because my system is out of work but even this I noted how the ( cartridge container. ) spheric plastic buble is cracked. When I bought this cartridge I received it its original container/box with no problem during shipping. When I send to you the original box was surrounded for shipping bubbles and then in a second box, so for the plastic buble been cracked that item must received a very hard shock/hit during Fedex ship´ping. There is no other possibility. Unfortunately you ask for a very low declared value that preclude any claim about.
Other subject that worried me is that I send my cartridge and it had the label's model in the down plate of the cartridge and the sample I received has no label's model so it can be my cartridge or it can't be my cartridge. The label can't dissapear on easy way, I think only on purpose ( ???? ) or because never had it.
All these " things " brought me to decide to return the cartridge to you, I can't accept it . You will receive it soon.
1) Can’t test? Notices plastic buble is cracked? Is he giving me a history lesson? If he has been reading my emails, and I know he has, all this was relayed to his back in early Jan.
2) Him receiving the cartridge safely only means that the person who sent him the cartridge, packed it much better than Raul did when he sent it to me!
3)He then goes on to state he double boxed it? I have been after him to explain to me why he shipped the tape balls to me in an envelope since Jan 10th. Now, over 2 months later, he wants to say he double boxed it! Raul, you are also a lair!
Any one see where this might be going,
4) He says I asked for very low declared value that preclude any claim about. Up to now, have anyone read a email from me, telling Raul to place a very low declared value on this Empire 4000D3/Astatic MF100 cartridge shipment. The answer is no. Their isn’t one. Raul, once again, you are a Lair!
5) After I told him the cartridge does not work on Jan. 10th. He gets copied a email from Axel stating cartridge can not be repaired . See page 129 of this forum for my statement to Raul and also Rauls reply to me, it is on the same page. He contacts Axel to ask what is wrong with the cartridge. Has he ignored everything that has happened ! Can he not read. Does he not read my emails pertaining to the cartridges that he gladly excepted my money for!
6) I asked Axel which was the problem with the cartridge and you can read in the email that the problem was in a coil and IMHO a very hard shock/hit ( like the one the package received. ) can made it broken.
Yes Raul, we do agree. Perhaps the 2 cartridges bouncing around inside the dome for 1 week, damaged one of them. DUH!
7) His remaining comments are what really burns me. The label he refers to was placed inside of a plastic cartridge carton, and taped to the outside of the envelope. I can only assume it came off while Axel opened up the cartridge to check, Perhaps, it came off during shipping? I don’t know which. I do know that the decal/label was placed inside a plastic container and taped to the outside of the envelope. I saw it with my own eyes. It was there! All this was shipped to Raul.
He does acknowledge in a latter post that the container was there but he claims was empty? He then is accusing me of keeping the label! What an ass!
I wish I had taken a picture of it in the container, but that would only have proven that there was a label. I would not prove it was HIS label. Nor would it have proved I left the label in the container when I shipped it.
I guess, this is where faith and trust come in to this discussion. He has stated he will not be sending me a refund but will be returning the cartridge to me? Based on what? I still have one question that he still has not addressed.
THE TAPE BALLS!
Any one who knows the Empire 4000D, knows that all the bodies are the same. It is the stylus that is the prized jewel. The D3 stylus is the most expensive and the most sought after. It is also the hardest to find. If my intentions were to swap Rauls cartridge for my bad cartridge, ask yourself. Why.? Why the body? You can find them anywhere. It’s the stylus everyone wants. The $189 offer I made to Raul would have gotten me that hard to find stylus and saved me an additional $42 return shipping to Raul. I don’t need bodies. If I wanted to stiff Raul, it would have been for the stylus. I could have lied to him and told him that it was the stylus that got damaged. Think about it. Who’s scamming who here!
Raul, you have made it quite clear to me, that you can not be trusted. You lie, You twist the truth to suit yourself, You are unethical, and you are an ass.
I was right about you when you ignored the generous offer to settle this. You had planned all along to stiff me for the money. There is no other way to understand your actions. Your replies, or shall I say, lack of replies, your ideals of fairness and honesty are discussing.
Raul, I have another question for you. Did you verify that the back of the cartridge did or did not have the grounding strap? Remember early on in this discussion, I questioned Raul about the missing grounding strap! My cartridge has one. His did not. The only cartridge that I had without a ground strap was his. The cartridge that has been returned to him, packaged by Axel, does not have that strap! How do I know this. Because it is HIS cartridge.
8) His last statement is a real kicker!
“All these " things " brought me to decide to return the cartridge to you, I can't accept it . You will receive it soon. “
What “things”? The label he lost opening the container! Give me a break. This guy thinks we’re all fools.
From: rauliruegas@hotmail.com
To: griffithds@jaws.bz
Subject: RE: Cartridge return
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:34:16 +0000
I just comeback from a rtwo weeks work-trip. I seen the package and tonight I will check it and let you know about.
Regards,
R.
Let me know about? What does he mean by that? Doesn’t sound like refund coming to me!
Following email dated 3/19, sent to me from Raul,
These are my coments on the Empire cartridge subject:
I can't test it because my system is out of work but even this I noted how the ( cartridge container. ) spheric plastic buble is cracked. When I bought this cartridge I received it its original container/box with no problem during shipping. When I send to you the original box was surrounded for shipping bubbles and then in a second box, so for the plastic buble been cracked that item must received a very hard shock/hit during Fedex ship´ping. There is no other possibility. Unfortunately you ask for a very low declared value that preclude any claim about.
Other subject that worried me is that I send my cartridge and it had the label's model in the down plate of the cartridge and the sample I received has no label's model so it can be my cartridge or it can't be my cartridge. The label can't dissapear on easy way, I think only on purpose ( ???? ) or because never had it.
All these " things " brought me to decide to return the cartridge to you, I can't accept it . You will receive it soon.
1) Can’t test? Notices plastic buble is cracked? Is he giving me a history lesson? If he has been reading my emails, and I know he has, all this was relayed to his back in early Jan.
2) Him receiving the cartridge safely only means that the person who sent him the cartridge, packed it much better than Raul did when he sent it to me!
3)He then goes on to state he double boxed it? I have been after him to explain to me why he shipped the tape balls to me in an envelope since Jan 10th. Now, over 2 months later, he wants to say he double boxed it! Raul, you are also a lair!
Any one see where this might be going,
4) He says I asked for very low declared value that preclude any claim about. Up to now, have anyone read a email from me, telling Raul to place a very low declared value on this Empire 4000D3/Astatic MF100 cartridge shipment. The answer is no. Their isn’t one. Raul, once again, you are a Lair!
5) After I told him the cartridge does not work on Jan. 10th. He gets copied a email from Axel stating cartridge can not be repaired . See page 129 of this forum for my statement to Raul and also Rauls reply to me, it is on the same page. He contacts Axel to ask what is wrong with the cartridge. Has he ignored everything that has happened ! Can he not read. Does he not read my emails pertaining to the cartridges that he gladly excepted my money for!
6) I asked Axel which was the problem with the cartridge and you can read in the email that the problem was in a coil and IMHO a very hard shock/hit ( like the one the package received. ) can made it broken.
Yes Raul, we do agree. Perhaps the 2 cartridges bouncing around inside the dome for 1 week, damaged one of them. DUH!
7) His remaining comments are what really burns me. The label he refers to was placed inside of a plastic cartridge carton, and taped to the outside of the envelope. I can only assume it came off while Axel opened up the cartridge to check, Perhaps, it came off during shipping? I don’t know which. I do know that the decal/label was placed inside a plastic container and taped to the outside of the envelope. I saw it with my own eyes. It was there! All this was shipped to Raul.
He does acknowledge in a latter post that the container was there but he claims was empty? He then is accusing me of keeping the label! What an ass!
I wish I had taken a picture of it in the container, but that would only have proven that there was a label. I would not prove it was HIS label. Nor would it have proved I left the label in the container when I shipped it.
I guess, this is where faith and trust come in to this discussion. He has stated he will not be sending me a refund but will be returning the cartridge to me? Based on what? I still have one question that he still has not addressed.
THE TAPE BALLS!
Any one who knows the Empire 4000D, knows that all the bodies are the same. It is the stylus that is the prized jewel. The D3 stylus is the most expensive and the most sought after. It is also the hardest to find. If my intentions were to swap Rauls cartridge for my bad cartridge, ask yourself. Why.? Why the body? You can find them anywhere. It’s the stylus everyone wants. The $189 offer I made to Raul would have gotten me that hard to find stylus and saved me an additional $42 return shipping to Raul. I don’t need bodies. If I wanted to stiff Raul, it would have been for the stylus. I could have lied to him and told him that it was the stylus that got damaged. Think about it. Who’s scamming who here!
Raul, you have made it quite clear to me, that you can not be trusted. You lie, You twist the truth to suit yourself, You are unethical, and you are an ass.
I was right about you when you ignored the generous offer to settle this. You had planned all along to stiff me for the money. There is no other way to understand your actions. Your replies, or shall I say, lack of replies, your ideals of fairness and honesty are discussing.
Raul, I have another question for you. Did you verify that the back of the cartridge did or did not have the grounding strap? Remember early on in this discussion, I questioned Raul about the missing grounding strap! My cartridge has one. His did not. The only cartridge that I had without a ground strap was his. The cartridge that has been returned to him, packaged by Axel, does not have that strap! How do I know this. Because it is HIS cartridge.
8) His last statement is a real kicker!
“All these " things " brought me to decide to return the cartridge to you, I can't accept it . You will receive it soon. “
What “things”? The label he lost opening the container! Give me a break. This guy thinks we’re all fools.