Arrest Warrant for Chargeback

[Jomo1]

Court did not go too well for me. The DA insisted that what I did was criminal and agreed to drop the charges if I pay back the $750 which I did. I guess that Lancaster county doesn't understand the law. and just wanted to help out a local store owner. The DA said that what the merchant did was a civil matter, not crimal.
I filed a small claims action against the store owner.

 

[Zigner]

Court did not go too well for me. The DA insisted that what I did was criminal and agreed to drop the charges if I pay back the $750.
I filed a small claims action against the store owner.

I'd say court went very well for you under the circumstances.

 

[quincy]

Court did not go too well for me. The DA insisted that what I did was criminal and agreed to drop the charges if I pay back the $750 which I did. I guess that Lancaster county doesn't understand the law. and just wanted to help out a local store owner. The DA said that what the merchant did was a civil matter, not crimal.
I filed a small claims action against the store owner.

It sounds to me like a reasonable deal offered you by the prosecutor.

 

[adjusterjack]

Court did not go too well for me.

Sure it did. You avoided a potential criminal conviction and now you get to do it the way it's supposed to be done, in a civil suit.

 

[quincy]

Jomo1, if you have the time, I would be interested in hearing how the small claims suit goes. It is possible that, upon receipt of your summons and complaint, the store owner will simply end the dispute by agreeing to hand over the $300 you spent on repairs. I hope that is how it goes.

 

[Bali Hai Again]

Jomo1, if you have the time, I would be interested in hearing how the small claims suit goes. It is possible that, upon receipt of your summons and complaint, the store owner will simply end the dispute by agreeing to hand over the $300 you spent on repairs. I hope that is how it goes.

Overly optimistic. The horse’s a$$ store owner could have done that before instead of ghosting the OP and having him criminally charged.

 

[Ohiogal]

Overly optimistic. The horse’s a$$ store owner could have done that before instead of ghosting the OP and having him criminally charged.

Or OP could have not broken the law.

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

Or OP could have not broken the law.

THe OP was not convicted of a crime.

 

[quincy]

Overly optimistic. The horse’s a$$ store owner could have done that before instead of ghosting the OP and having him criminally charged.

Perhaps.

The store owner probably feels the payment of $750 ended the dispute, when it obviously hasn’t. The $750 payment only led to the prosecutor dismissing the criminal charge. Now the contract dispute is back where it has always belonged - in a small claims court.

To end the small claims action, the store owner might decide paying Jomo1 the $300 cost incurred by Jomo1 is the best option.

 

[Jomo1]

THe OP was not convicted of a crime.

In my opinion there was no crime committed by me. This should have been a civil matter from the start.

 

[Jomo1]

The reason that I feel that court did not go well for me is because I committed no crime and I should not have been forced to pay the store owner any money because the case should not have been dealt with by the DA.

 

[Zigner]

The reason that I feel that court did not go well for me is because I committed no crime and I should not have been forced to pay the store owner any money because the case should not have been dealt with by the DA.

At the least, you should have paid him $450, since it only cost you $300 to fix the problem.

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

This should have been a civil matter from the start.

You were the one that decided to not handle it as a civil matter.

 

[quincy]

The reason that I feel that court did not go well for me is because I committed no crime and I should not have been forced to pay the store owner any money because the case should not have been dealt with by the DA.

By reversing charges on your account, you did not handle the contract matter correctly. Now you have the opportunity to handle it correctly by going to court over the $300 owed you by the store owner. The criminal charge seems to have been an unnecessary detour, spurred possibly (probably) by the store owner’s lies.

 

[westside]

Or OP could have not broken the law.

I missed the part where he was convicted of a crime.