Jon Yaeger wrote:
in article , Trevor Wilson at
wrote on 12/21/05 4:00 PM:
"I left the valves in place and told the client that I had fixed his amp. If
was in any way unhappy with the result, I would refund his money, in full.
The
cost, of course, was significantly lower than replacing all the faulty
stuff. After he'd used it for a week, he reported that his amps had never
sounded so good . . . . "
"You call that 'fraud'?"
* * * *
You deliberately misled the client who was left with the impression that you
fixed his tube amp. That's deception. And I think it also meets the
definition of fraud.
Don't be to quick to congratulate yourself for making his amp sound better
than before. After all, it was totally broken before the mod.
Sheesh. You'd even make a "dishonest garage trader" blush . . . .
Jon
Yeah, after the kicking you took for merely being *shoddy* about the
provenance of an amplifier design and *careless* about who you
believed, and then being too stubborn to admit you were wrong, what
Wilson did must rate at least electrodes to the testicles.
"Fraud" doesn't even begin to describe what Trevor Wilson of Rage Audio
did to this poor unwitting customer.
In the championship dishonesty stakes, Jon, you're a piker... no,
that's the wrong word, a pike is a predator... you're a throw-back
fingerling trout, accident-prone rather than actively dishonest.
Andre Jute
It's the shock of being exposed to RAO that made me so nice