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Old 01-10-2019, 02:15 AM
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NEVER loan tools to a STRANGER even if only "down the road a piece!"

well, after a long debate I have to announce I got screwed by Europower!
Being a local I thought it not a problem to loan him my GP reamer.
Like doing a good deed for a mechanic in distress?????

We connected by PM and I sent it to him with a return address and a nice box for the trip home some 15 miles South of his San Francisco address where he asked e to send it.
This was before the Christmas Holiday and at the end of the year I sent him an email asking how it was going, was the job done?
He replied he thought I GAVE the reamer to him, not on a loan? (NO WHERE did I say it was a FREEBIE!) then he went on to say he was in PUERTO RICO but the car was actually located over a hundred miles from San Francisco. Confused? so am I!

So I asked him to replace it if he wasn't able to return it, and I even sent a link on PeachParts website that shows a new GP Reamer for the OM646 sells for what - $85?
I haven't heard from the last email I sent about 10 days ago so I guess I got screwed
The moral of this is NEVER let a tool out of your possession without a monetary deposit!
SHTF
DDH
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