What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? IL
I posted a couch on Craigslist for sale. I marked it as leather and the couch is bonded leather. Someone a few blocks from me paid and came in person to pick the couch up. I told him when he was standing there that it was bonded leather. Apparently he didn't know what that was. He took it and seemed really happy with his purchase and then the following day he told me he wanted to return it. He didn't ask me in person anything further about the couch, he touched it and he said he liked it and took it. I told him that I wouldn't accept a return and now he is threatening to sue me for falsely advertising, even tho he knew the material it was made of beforehand. He is saying that bonded leather is vinyl and not leather at all... Which is untrue, bonded leather is made of strips and pieces of leather and vinyl is made of PVC. So, considering he came in person and was happy when he came to purchase it, I am treating it as buyer's remorse and he was also very rude to me so I am not willing to accept a return. He accused me of trying to scam him even though I told him the material before it even left the room that it sat in. I stated in my ad the condition of the product as well, I stated that it was scratched from my cat and I pointed out those scratches when he came to buy it along with telling him the material. In the CL ad I used photos from the website that I bought the couch on, I offered photos of the couch as it was to anyone who wanted, he did not request more photos.
Would he have any case against me at all considering that the item was picked up in person?
I posted a couch on Craigslist for sale. I marked it as leather and the couch is bonded leather. Someone a few blocks from me paid and came in person to pick the couch up. I told him when he was standing there that it was bonded leather. Apparently he didn't know what that was. He took it and seemed really happy with his purchase and then the following day he told me he wanted to return it. He didn't ask me in person anything further about the couch, he touched it and he said he liked it and took it. I told him that I wouldn't accept a return and now he is threatening to sue me for falsely advertising, even tho he knew the material it was made of beforehand. He is saying that bonded leather is vinyl and not leather at all... Which is untrue, bonded leather is made of strips and pieces of leather and vinyl is made of PVC. So, considering he came in person and was happy when he came to purchase it, I am treating it as buyer's remorse and he was also very rude to me so I am not willing to accept a return. He accused me of trying to scam him even though I told him the material before it even left the room that it sat in. I stated in my ad the condition of the product as well, I stated that it was scratched from my cat and I pointed out those scratches when he came to buy it along with telling him the material. In the CL ad I used photos from the website that I bought the couch on, I offered photos of the couch as it was to anyone who wanted, he did not request more photos.
Would he have any case against me at all considering that the item was picked up in person?
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