Ron, sorry to hear about your bad experience with the Explorer sale. Had a similar one myself. Bought an Explorer and re-sold it a few days later (#3 because I came into another machine I wanted to devote time to). Guy gets the machine and says he thought I said it was new, because it had some dirt under the coil cover I hadn't bothered to clean. I said no, never said it was new in the ad. Said it have very little hours on it. Showed him the receipt to prove it was bought recently, and then he turns around and says the receipt was doctored! Realized then this guy was trying to scr*w me, as he had cancelled the check.
I said send it back and he refused, and started telling me he wanted me to knock off a chunk of money from the price. Told him no, I'm already taking a huge hit on a recently bought new machine, and that he should just send it back and we'd go our separate ways. He still refused, so I called his local sheriff department and explained he cancelled the check and yet refused to send it back. They told me they'd deliver him a notice that he's going to be charged with mail order check fraud. Once I emailed him that document on that that I filled out he suddenly decided he'd send it back to me. I said look, you can either spend the money to ship it back or I'll knock off $25 from the price just so we can be done with this, but I want a money order mailed to me. He agreed and the deal was done.
I'll never sell to anybody who doesn't have a proven track record I can look up in posts and such. Later when I researched him after the fact I found he was in the business (not in an established business but was buying/selling on the side) of buying machines and re-selling them, so obviously he was in it for every dime he could squeeze out of me to make a profit and not buying it to use. I wouldn't doubt he pulled the same stunt with other people and that's how he was making himself a hefty profit, by buying machines and then refusing to pay until they dropped the price after the deal was done. I had told him I wanted a money order and yet he sent me a check, so obviously he was up to something right there.
Don't anybody bother asking me his name, as it was long ago on another website and one of several guys I sold my Explorers to. In fact, two of my Explorers me and several guys kept buying and selling back to each other over time, so I've actually owned more then 3 over the years if you look at it that way.
So I'm not calling anybody out here or looking to smear somebody. Truth is I don't even remember his name now anyway. Tried hard to forget it.
