[Johnson] So sue me

Sherrill Watkins Sherrill.Watkins at dgs.virginia.gov
Thu Apr 21 16:29:25 EDT 2005


Jon: There is almost no way you can sell anything and not have legal
exposure. You can donate your Ranger to me and I will sign a hold harmless
clause and not charge you anything, for free! -73- Sherrill W. k4own. 

-----Original Message-----
From: K6JEK [mailto:k6jek at comcast.net] 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:20 PM
To: johnson at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Johnson] So sue me


Does anyone know how to sell a boat anchor and not get sued for it?  I 
was thinking of selling one my Rangers but wonder what kind of warning 
would suffice to cover me.   In this litigious society, people will sue 
you for not telling them that water is wet.  I can think of several 
dangerous things about a Ranger:

1) No interlock.  If you run it with the cover off, you're exposed to 
potentially fatal voltages.
2) Two wire plug.  If anything goes wrong and you don't have it 
otherwise grounded, the cabinet will get be hot;
3) If it has the PTT that Johnson suggests,, there's 200V on the mike 
cord;
4) The relay socket has a 50/50 chance of being hot all the time;
5) It things really go wrong, it'll set your house on fire;

Not to mention

6)  It's old.  It might stop working any second now
7) If you operate it without a license the FCC might get you.
8) the fabled good audio isn't as good as the audio of a Collins 20V2.

I've learned recently that "as is" doesn't mean much.  It seems to mean 
"as described" and that includes "as not described (omitted) " and even 
"you should have known even if you didn't"    Is there a better phrase? 
  How about a really CYA contract?

Thanks,

Jon



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