• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

So I sold a used bike to a guy that ended up being a pos

firecrotch

firecrotch

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I didnt mean too. As a matter of fact I told him I didnt know whats wrong with it or had any clue to the maintenance of it as I was selling it for someone who had passed on. Its over a 15 yr old bike and he got it for cheap.

Now on his sig(not on this forum) he has it listed with his other bike and has it prefaced as "POS" I am sure he did that to kind of let me know in a passive agressive way as we cross each others posts all the time. I feel like cr@p and want to reach out to him about it but dont know if I should just let it lie?
 
if you told him about it up front , it is his problem that he is pissed . You cant please all the people all the time.
 
I agree. Telling him you don't know about the bike as it wasn't yours makes it his problem. If I picked up a 15 year old bike I would expect to get it cheap and expect to spend money fixing it. Calling it a POS on the net won't fix it.
 
If you can't find an error in your presentation of the bike--that is, a point at which you either lied about the condition or willfully withheld the truth--then what you are experiencing is false guilt. Moreover, his unwillingness to contact you about it before "forumizing" his disappointment is illustrative of his moral immaturity. His disappointment is on him...only he can do something about it.
 
AS IS is AS IS, anything can be a POC, whether it be new (aka KTM) OK just kidding! Lets start over! Anything whether it be new or used can be a POC. And for example, if you sell a used car and are asked while selling it , if there are any known problems, if you do not know of any, and sell it and the head gasket goes out 2 days later, yea you feel bummed, but so long as you did not know it is a buyer beware market and if and some people are so paranoid, that is why they buy something with a warrenty. Rest tonight and sleep good. We have all bought a POS before, it happpens, some people get more upset then others. Any time you buy something used it is a calculated gamble on your part and in this case, he looked at the item and bought it. Oh well, get some sleep!
 
Its happened 3x with me, 1st with KTM300EXC there were signs (not with my bike but with the buyer)**. The second time Husky TE450, the bike was just fine but within a month or so the engine grenaded on the buyer (I felt bad but I had no idea how he rode the thing or if it was just coincidence) there was nothing for me to do.
The 3rd was my last sale(the RM125) to a guy who has been a great customer and nice guy to my "sponsor" shop. 2nd time he rode the RM125 the PV came apart and took out the top end. The guy is a retired Soldier and man of respect and honesty, He paid for the parts I did the rebuild, the bike is back to 100% and ripping just fine now. And he now is buying my 99 TE610 so he will soon be member of the wacky family!!
I know how you feel, but its hard to call it's a piece of mechanical machinery, failures happen. Get some sleep there was no malice on your part.

**The kato was tuned lean for altitude and slower single track riding, the exhaust was dry at the nozzle when I rode it in my speed and venues. He immediatly took the thing to the sea level sand dunes and pinned it in the dunes (the correct way to ride there) and it lasted a day and seized. I told him if he was going to desert ride at WOT type stuff to rejet to a safe setting (I think I even told him what to put in it), he took no action and burned the thing up, called me and slagged me about the POS I sold him,,,,,,,In a nice way I told him to F-off, its 100% on him. Or if Fletch wrote this it was 50% owner and 50% or maybe more a Kato issue!!!(ha-ha)
 
Having been on both ends of these types of deals. I think there are alot of dishonest sellers and alot of uneducated buyers. Either way stuff happens and when your buying something used it is what it is. If the guy is decent I have shot cash back to help (Only after the buyer can show proof of damage and reciepts that he/she fixed it). Conversly if someone calls and curses at me over the phone, I will not do anything.
 
Yeah, I recently bought an old SUV from a fellow SDAR club member. The car was high mileage, but appeared to be in very good shape. I bought it for a low price, and drove it around for a month before it developed some odd clunking noises in the front end. So, it turned out that it needed ball joints, tie rods and control arm bushings. This was quite a chunk of change (almost a third of what I paid for the vehicle). But I knew the car was old and I don't think that the previous owner knew that there was a problem with the front end of the car. The car seems solid now (had the local dealership check it over too), and my friends say that it was still a good value even with the repairs.
 
I ended up pm ing him. He said it wasn't a reflection on me as he was rebuilding bike from ground up anyway.
 
robertaccio said:
**I told him if he was going to desert ride at WOT type stuff to rejet to a safe setting (I think I even told him what to put in it), he took no action and burned the thing up, called me and slagged me about the POS I sold him
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I'm so afraid of this happening that I just put sea level jets in them before I sell them. I know the buyer is going to do something stupid and somehow convince himself that it's my fault, so I'll gladly throw a couple bucks of brass into the bike before it's sold.
 
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