silverdragon997
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What is the name of your state? California
I sold my king size bed on craigslist to a woman last Tuesday. She came over after I got off of work to see the bed before deciding if she wanted to buy it. It was after dark and the bed was out on my back porch. She spent an hour looking at it and inspecting it, trying to decide whether or not she wanted it. She spent a particularly long time inspecting the sideboards and the way they attach to the headboard, because she said that they were just like the ones on her old bed that broke because her children kept jumping on the bed. After almost an hour, I asked her if she wanted to think about it or come back during daytime to get a better look at it. She said no, she would just take it because she needed a bed. She paid me $140 of the $150 that we agreed on because she only had 20 dollar bills and I didn't have any change, then began to put the pieces in her car.
Now, she drives a sedan of some sort. The back seats fold down and there is a cubby hole in which to pass things through. She managed to shove the footboard, sideboards and support pieces through this hole. I pointed out to her that she was putting scratches on the frame, to which she just said, "oh" and kept cramming. She wanted to tie the headboard to the top of her car, but I told her that was a bad idea, since the headboard is 6'9" long and heavy and would probably damage the top of her car, among other things. She decided to return for the headboard later. We even had a discussion about how she could just put the sideboards from my bed onto her old bed so that she could have a bed to sleep on again until she could come and get the headboard.
Well, Friday night she left me a message saying that she needed to talk to me about the bed. She called me again this morning (Saturday) and said that the bed was broken, that I had known it was broken when I sold it to her, and that in the state of CA I am required to divulge this information to her before I sold it. She is saying that the metal pieces that connect the sideboard to the headboard are broken, the same pieces she spent forever looking at before saying she would take the bed. She also kept saying that the bed was made out of cardboard, not wood, which she kept saying when she was looking at it. It's made out of MDF.
I told her that it was not broken when I sold it to her, and that she had looked at the pieces before buying it. I know it wasn't broken because I put the bed together in my living room and took pictures of it all together. I think either she broke it when she shoved it into her car, or she put the sideboards on her old bed and her kids jumped on it and broke it.
She is saying that she wants to return the bed and get her money back, that I knew it was broken, that she can prove it was broken before she got it, and that if I don't give her her money back she is going to sue me.
My question is, does she have a case against me, and do I have to accept my bed back, now apparently broken and definitely with scratches on it?
I sold my king size bed on craigslist to a woman last Tuesday. She came over after I got off of work to see the bed before deciding if she wanted to buy it. It was after dark and the bed was out on my back porch. She spent an hour looking at it and inspecting it, trying to decide whether or not she wanted it. She spent a particularly long time inspecting the sideboards and the way they attach to the headboard, because she said that they were just like the ones on her old bed that broke because her children kept jumping on the bed. After almost an hour, I asked her if she wanted to think about it or come back during daytime to get a better look at it. She said no, she would just take it because she needed a bed. She paid me $140 of the $150 that we agreed on because she only had 20 dollar bills and I didn't have any change, then began to put the pieces in her car.
Now, she drives a sedan of some sort. The back seats fold down and there is a cubby hole in which to pass things through. She managed to shove the footboard, sideboards and support pieces through this hole. I pointed out to her that she was putting scratches on the frame, to which she just said, "oh" and kept cramming. She wanted to tie the headboard to the top of her car, but I told her that was a bad idea, since the headboard is 6'9" long and heavy and would probably damage the top of her car, among other things. She decided to return for the headboard later. We even had a discussion about how she could just put the sideboards from my bed onto her old bed so that she could have a bed to sleep on again until she could come and get the headboard.
Well, Friday night she left me a message saying that she needed to talk to me about the bed. She called me again this morning (Saturday) and said that the bed was broken, that I had known it was broken when I sold it to her, and that in the state of CA I am required to divulge this information to her before I sold it. She is saying that the metal pieces that connect the sideboard to the headboard are broken, the same pieces she spent forever looking at before saying she would take the bed. She also kept saying that the bed was made out of cardboard, not wood, which she kept saying when she was looking at it. It's made out of MDF.
I told her that it was not broken when I sold it to her, and that she had looked at the pieces before buying it. I know it wasn't broken because I put the bed together in my living room and took pictures of it all together. I think either she broke it when she shoved it into her car, or she put the sideboards on her old bed and her kids jumped on it and broke it.
She is saying that she wants to return the bed and get her money back, that I knew it was broken, that she can prove it was broken before she got it, and that if I don't give her her money back she is going to sue me.
My question is, does she have a case against me, and do I have to accept my bed back, now apparently broken and definitely with scratches on it?
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