Hello people, so I sold a FULLY working PC to a guy a few days ago. He saw my AD on OLX and we meet up in person. I drove to his flat because he was a little far and didn’t own a car. Me and my partner went there and spent over two hours setting up the PC for him and testing the PC in every aspect, he wanted to see framerate in games so we launched 3 games and I ran two benchmarks on it (benchmark is a program that stress tests the PC to show any kind of problem when the PC is under load). He saw everything is fine and inspected everything physically and I gave him the receipt for most parts because generally the PC is relatively new and all parts are still on warranty.
One day after I sold him the PC he started contacting me and telling me that the PC keeps crashing in Fortnite and turning off randomly. I tried to help him since he told me he is coming from console and has little knowledge on PCs. I told him it could be settings or a problem with Fortnite but I don’t really know since I don’t play that game.

For the past days he’s been contacting me of problems and today he told me he wants to cancel the contract that my partner signed when we sold him the PC. (He wrote this contract by himself, which contains grammatical error pointed out by my partner)

And today he said that tomorrow he is going to Police to report us of selling him a broken PC.
At this point I’m not sure if this is a scam or he actually did break my PC and he wants to use us as a way back to get his money.
I’m not sure what legal ground he has, and our situation. Any advices or tips on how to handle that?

(I’ll post the contract but redact personal info)

by Cabinetsife

8 comments

  1. Police is not going to do anything anyway so you can just ignore it if you believe the PC was good when you sold it.

  2. As far as I know you can request refund on a bought item, if you are not happy with, as long as it works as during the moment you bought it. I think you even have around 30 days, yes this applies on used items.

  3. It’s a scam, I would just ignore it. It says (with a spelling error:P) that the seller guarantees that there are no hidden flaws in the merchandise.

  4. “bendzie” – clearly scam no official documents are comming with such a misspelled word.

  5. Either a scammer or an idiot. (No one guaranteed he can run Fortnite on it nor that it would work flawlessly)

    Police will see the contract and do nothing.

  6. Lol. Polish police will not do anything about it even if he was right xD but he is not

  7. from you description this guy looks like a noob or a just a weird person.

    legal ground is – its a private transaction. you sold to him as a private person – he had every opportunity to check it. Its working but he has issues in some specific cases. NOt your problem. You’re not a store. You’re not obliged by anythhnig. If he feels wronged he can go to court. If part is defected, he has guarantee and recepitpe,like you said

    i was reselling in my younger years, lots of apple stuff, ipod days. Every 20-30transaction, there was this person with this kind of attitude. He will check it in million ways, ask me to show him every test, photo, recepit. Next day – somethign is wrong, i want refund. Sry, you have no idea what he did with this equpiment. He could drop, spill water on it, kick accidently.

  8. If you are a private entity (not a company) you doesn’t have to do anything. Ignore the guy.

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