This post either belongs in here or Tradin' Post. Not sure which.
I trade, fix, and repair small power equipment from time to time. I recently traded a landscaper a Stihl 025 in very good condition for an MS461 one of his employees likely cooked. He called me later and complained that the 025 didn't work and bogged down under load--I told him that the carb probably just needed adjustment (for context the guy doesn't speak great english and IMO doesn't have nearly enough understanding of how power equipment works for a professional landscaper). We made a test cut with it on a small piece of lumber when he took it, so he saw that it ran and cut. As far as I'm concerned, he either needed to pay me to tune up his saw or sharpen the chain and that wasn't included in the trade value of the saws.
Is that bad form? For all those who also trade/sell saws, if you're advertising them as working is it commonly understood that the saw'll idle but the buyer needs to adjust things from there?
I trade, fix, and repair small power equipment from time to time. I recently traded a landscaper a Stihl 025 in very good condition for an MS461 one of his employees likely cooked. He called me later and complained that the 025 didn't work and bogged down under load--I told him that the carb probably just needed adjustment (for context the guy doesn't speak great english and IMO doesn't have nearly enough understanding of how power equipment works for a professional landscaper). We made a test cut with it on a small piece of lumber when he took it, so he saw that it ran and cut. As far as I'm concerned, he either needed to pay me to tune up his saw or sharpen the chain and that wasn't included in the trade value of the saws.
Is that bad form? For all those who also trade/sell saws, if you're advertising them as working is it commonly understood that the saw'll idle but the buyer needs to adjust things from there?
