[Johnson] So sue me

[Sherrill Watkins]

If one sells a piece of old electronic equipment and describes it as a "boat
anchor" one is inviting a law suit because it is not a "boat anchor"!  -
k4own

-----Original Message-----
From: Fern Rivard [mailto:crc at cyberlink.bc.ca] 
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 9:55 AM
To: johnson at mailman.qth.net; K6JEK
Subject: Re: [Johnson] So sue me


The answer to that liability is to sell..............AS IS WHERE IS! 
Fern



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K6JEK" <k6jek at comcast.net>
To: <johnson at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:20 PM
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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