What is the name of your state? TN
I purchased a case of implantable medical devices online. They were sold by a liquidation company who consigns lost freight items for UPS. The items are 115 Alcon intraocular lenses. I am a nurse at an eye surgery center, and I knew what they were when I saw them, so was able to buy them very inexpensively. They are worth a lot of money. I know they are tracked by Alcon by serial number, and by law the registration card for each lens must be sent to Alcon when implanted. I contacted Alcon and supplied them with a list of every serial number I now owned, in order to prevent any confusion when the lenses were used. I was going to donate the lenses to a local eye docs for indigent cases. One of the docs said he would do my vision surgery in exchange for the donation and would use the lenses for their indigent foundation patients. Alcon is now threatening me, and saying the sale was illegal, and insist on picking the lenses up from me so they can destroy them. They call me and threaten me, but they do not have my address, just my phone number. I read the package, and it does say it's against federal law to sell or dispense the lenses without a license. I did not sell the lenses, and I'm not going to dispense them, either. The online company DID sell them to me, so I contacted the seller, and they want them back too. They say they sold them to me by mistake and they want them back to destroy them. The owner of the liquidation company said she was refunding my payment, and credited an extra $200 to my credit card "for inconvenience". I never asked her to do either one, but she did. She also issued a call tag for UPS to pick up the box. It was 12-23, and the UPS guy called & asked me if it could wait until after Christmas. I said sure, since I didn't authorize the pickup anyway. He never called back, so the box is still sitting here. I haven't heard anything more from the seller. I did get another call from Alcon yesterday, wanting to know the disposition of the lenses. I just told them there has been no disposition and hung up. Is it illegal for me to possess the lenses? One of the Alcon people told me it was the same as buying a case of morphine, but I know that's not true. An intraocular lens is not an illegal drug. I realize Alcon can prevent their use in the US due to the registration law, but can they force me to give them to Alcon? I'd like to be able to tell these nasty Alcon people where to go. What about the liquidation company? Since they took it on themselves to refund my payment, does that negate their sale to me? It seems to me that they are the only ones who have broken any laws, by selling the lenses to me without a license to do so. What are my rights?
I purchased a case of implantable medical devices online. They were sold by a liquidation company who consigns lost freight items for UPS. The items are 115 Alcon intraocular lenses. I am a nurse at an eye surgery center, and I knew what they were when I saw them, so was able to buy them very inexpensively. They are worth a lot of money. I know they are tracked by Alcon by serial number, and by law the registration card for each lens must be sent to Alcon when implanted. I contacted Alcon and supplied them with a list of every serial number I now owned, in order to prevent any confusion when the lenses were used. I was going to donate the lenses to a local eye docs for indigent cases. One of the docs said he would do my vision surgery in exchange for the donation and would use the lenses for their indigent foundation patients. Alcon is now threatening me, and saying the sale was illegal, and insist on picking the lenses up from me so they can destroy them. They call me and threaten me, but they do not have my address, just my phone number. I read the package, and it does say it's against federal law to sell or dispense the lenses without a license. I did not sell the lenses, and I'm not going to dispense them, either. The online company DID sell them to me, so I contacted the seller, and they want them back too. They say they sold them to me by mistake and they want them back to destroy them. The owner of the liquidation company said she was refunding my payment, and credited an extra $200 to my credit card "for inconvenience". I never asked her to do either one, but she did. She also issued a call tag for UPS to pick up the box. It was 12-23, and the UPS guy called & asked me if it could wait until after Christmas. I said sure, since I didn't authorize the pickup anyway. He never called back, so the box is still sitting here. I haven't heard anything more from the seller. I did get another call from Alcon yesterday, wanting to know the disposition of the lenses. I just told them there has been no disposition and hung up. Is it illegal for me to possess the lenses? One of the Alcon people told me it was the same as buying a case of morphine, but I know that's not true. An intraocular lens is not an illegal drug. I realize Alcon can prevent their use in the US due to the registration law, but can they force me to give them to Alcon? I'd like to be able to tell these nasty Alcon people where to go. What about the liquidation company? Since they took it on themselves to refund my payment, does that negate their sale to me? It seems to me that they are the only ones who have broken any laws, by selling the lenses to me without a license to do so. What are my rights?
But that's not really it, they just call and demand to know what I'm going to do with the lenses. They say they want to make arrangements to pick them up, as if there's no question but that I'm going to give them to them. The woman is just rude, the man who calls has this deep, ominous voice. The threats are veiled, stating that the lenses cannot be used, it's like buying narcotics online, they are talking to their legal dept, etc.