Moral Dilemma: How long should I wait?

[danheit]

For Your Reading Pleasure: I have deleted his last name and address and my reply is the one on top. You guys feel free to blast me if I was wrong.

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I have bent over backwards helping you with this thing, spending my time, my gas and my money to assist you in getting this truck shipped. First I am going to address a few of your statements.
#1: Cost you an extra $700 for it not running - that is between you and the shipper. Truck ran, however AS I REQUESTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER, YOU DID NOT COORDINATE WITH THE SHIPPER TO ENSURE I WAS HOME WHEN THE TRUCK WAS PICKED UP, in order to start the truck and drive it on the trailer. Also, I asked the driver about the winch specifically. He told me it was unsuable at that current point in time. I will happily refresh his memory of our conversation in the Wal Mart parking lot if he would like. Also, how is it that the $100 tow bill cost you an extra $700? Did it cost him extra while your truck sat stationary on the truck? Did he have to unload and load it 6 more times? Also, the truck ran fine as you saw when you bought it several months ago. I am sorry if the 67 year old pickup truck that you purchased and has been sitting for 3 months didn't start and drive like a new car. Shoulda picked it up sooner. The truck was parked on the curb every single time that the shipping company told me they were coming to pick it up. In fact, there were multiple times that I was out fiddling with the truck to drive it to the curb late at night with the intent to have the truck picked up the next morning. Then your shipper was a no show. Not my fault, but I certainly had to be the one dealing with being up all night with it before I had to be at work only a few hours later, not once, but multiple times. Unfortunately, I can't just leave it out there on the curb, as it would have easily been damaged as they are doing heavy construction in my neighborhood and the concrete trucks and delivery trucks can't make it through. It would have been my fault if your truck got demolished, as well as I LEGALLY have to leave a certain amount of right of way as these are county maintained roads. Can't stay parked out there for 6 weeks.

#2: The box. I don't have it. Don't know what to tell you. Why in the world would I take the time to tell you about the box, take you out there on multiple occasions, go out there myself over and over again, when I planned to keep it for myself the whole time? Get real. I will happily photograph my garage, where ALL my truck parts are, my driveway, etc. to show you there is no bed in there. I am using a late model stepside bed, which IS in my garage, which I already informed you about, and I EVEN OFFERED TO GIVE YOU THAT ONE AT ONE TIME!!, cause I felt bad that I couldn't get up with Sam.

#3: I would LOVE to know which lies you caught me in 3 times. I really would, as I have been honest with you from the start on this thing.

#4: Hood ornament is in a box with all the spare parts that I was going to be nice and just give you such as an HEI distributor and extra carbs, which if you would have had the truck picked up on one of the 17 days I am off every month, which never change, would have made it in the truck. However, you were unable to do that, and it got left behind.

#5: The cheap $10 air cleaner is sitting on the hood of my Jeep, as I had to take it off the carb the night before to pour gas in it to get the truck started, which it did, and ran. It sat for so long waiting for you to come pick it up that the bowl and lines dried out. Sorry it got left, but I was doing all this in the rain and in the dark since your shipper decided to call me and tell me he would be at my house at 11PM, and then never ended up showing up. Had I been there when he picked the truck up like I asked you over and over and over to ensure, it would have been on there no problem. BTW, the air cleaner in the seat is the one that came on that carb, which I believe to be original to that truck. So there is your original 1955 air cleaner. That's what was on there when I got it. Only reason it was on the seat is that it didn't fit in the parts box.

#6: I read back through my Craigslist ad (yeah, I have a copy too), and nowhere in there does it say a clear title IN MY NAME. It says a clear title, which I offered you. It was an open title, which the seller of the truck signed over on the back. You could have just as easily gone to the DMV and had it titled in your name, but no. You wanted me to waste my time doing it, which ended up costing $200 out of my pocket. $200 of which you stated to me on the phone at that time, that you weren't going to make me bear the full cost of. In fact, if I remember correctly, your exact words were, "well, I could be a jerk about it, but I'm not going to...." thanks a lot there bud. Your email proves that you evidently were going to.

All that said, if you want me to ship the parts to you, I will happily do so. I will also be sending you the cost to ship them, and will be awaiting payment. If you really want to be rude about things, the state of South Carolina allows $35 a day storage fees for vehicles abandoned.....x roughly 90 days, I am sure you can do the math. That plus the $200 for titling at YOUR request, need I keep going? Please feel free to make the check payable to me, or I can give you the address to my paypal account. By the way, had your email not come across so rudely (which I would have expected differently from a fellow law enforcement officer), this would have gone completely differently. How about a thanks Dan for all of your help. For storing my truck for me. For spending days of your precious time off which you could be spending with your family, at the DMV or trying to track down a truck bed for me. Thanks for staying up till 1am when you had to be up at 5am trying to get my truck ready for the shipper which never showed up...not once, but three times. You are welcome. Don't choke on any nails.
----- Original Message -----
From: peter
To: dan
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: Truck title


I have the truck finally . WOW !!!!! Feel like we've been physically and mentally accosted . Cost an extra $700. because it wouldn't run like it did when I bought it , and you didn't have it at the curb like you said , so it could have been winched onto the truck , and cost me an extra $100. for the tow truck to load it ; you not only didn't get the box for me ( which Sam said you did , and I believe you are keeping it for yourself ) which I paid for I might add , and I caught you in 3 lies in the process .; you kept the hood ornament which we agreed upon and I put it on the floor of the truck and we discussed ; even kept the chrome air cleaner off the carb that was there when I tried it out , and you left an incorrect air cleaner on the seat ,,,,, I am so pissed right now that I could bite the head off a nail . Anxiously awaiting your response and thought I could have full trust in a fellow law enforcement officer . I really believed you to be a great guy and on the same wavelength .( guess I should have know after learning you didn't have clear title in your name as the Craigs List ad said , of which I have a printout . Again I say WOW !!! Please ship the said goods and my $150. to Peter