Given his comments - "he personally inspected that head and saw nothing wrong with it and that it was one of the best looking heads he had ever shipped out." - then he shouldn't have any problem selling it to someone else, right.

Get you money back and try door number two.

I paid $200 for an entire head assembly, cam and all.   It was a local salvage yard, so I got to inspect it when I went there.  

I don't know about over in the States, but in the UK we have what's called a 'small claims' legal system, where you spend about $50 to fill in the papers in your local county court then just sit back and await judgement - the guy you sue has the option of defending (which costs him time and money) or paying up.  It works a treat for items like this.

The next stage should be a letter stating intent to sue unless he refunds in full, including return shipping costs.

*applauds*

Nice alliteration!

KwakNut wrote on 04/06/08 at 12:37:25:



We have the same system here because England established America.  The problem is in the collection of your claim.  You can win, but if the loser doesn't pay you, you have to go back to court to ask the court to collect from the loser.  The loser can drag this out by not appearing or cooperating.  You then have to attach his assets, if you can identify them.  More court time, more paperwork and research.  Then you have to get the court to do a sale of his assets.  Just try doing all this correctly without an attorney! The attorney will cost more than the $300.00 you recover, IF you recover it.  I never buy anything used unless I see and inspect it first.

Well finally heard back from the salvage yard on the head i returned . He said he didnt know how he missed seeing the damage and that the head cover was as I stated unusable .

But get this he offered to mill the head to cover mating surface, put another head cover on it and send it back I told him no way you cant do that cuz the cover and head are a mated pair and milling would affect the cam tolerances (to clean up as much damage as the head had it probably wouldnt have any cam clearance left at all if the cam would even fit) he told me they had a method that worked. I told him NO!!! that I wanted a refund cuz I could get a new head for a couple hundred more. He tried so hard to get my sale that he said he wanted to get the price on a new head and after a few minutes told me a new head was $650, I told him I could get a new head for $500 and he asked if I was getting a discount and I told him no and he offered to try to match that price. But after everything else I said that I just wanted a refund and I would take my Business elsewhere. Finally he agreed he would refund my money and the shipping to and fro.

Hopefully I will Be ordering a new head tomorrow and have my bike back together soon.

If you paid on a charge card can you file a dispute with the credit car company?