Pics that will make you cry (halfnote)

[smogthemog]

Good speech, I agree. That will certainly be the route I take in future.

I will also double box goods from now on as well and take very careful attention to internal packaging.

Simon and I traded because we both wanted what each other had and each others goods where just not selling for cash. I guess that's the Xmas effect

[ElektroFreak]

Do you guys also feel that this busines is a lot worse than others, when it comes to those kinds of problems ?

Regards, Simon

I share your feelings. If it isn't non-paying customers, shipping losses, or the just plain finicky nature of many lasers, then it's sellers taking advantage of people's lack of knowledge about lasers, charging obscene prices and not testing things before they ship. Even people with reputations for bad business stick around with no consequences because so many people just don't know better. Caveat emptor is the rule with lasers, far more so than most other forms of business.

[Lexat8]

Eveing all!
This is a fecking nightnare! Feel that i've got to post on Simon's behalf here.
Smog, sorry but you are wrong. You sold your half of the deal before Si received his half. It's that simple, you should have waited before you sold. As it seems, you did not do this, and therefore you are morally obliged to return the goods that he sent to you.

2 bob

Lex

[Psi]

What you need is a lawyer, obviously if you have any lawyer mates then that will be much cheaper or free.

Get the lawyer to make an official shipping insurance claim in legal wording and on his law firm's paper (you want the lawfirms logo . Get him to make lots of points about how the package must have been willfully damaged to sustain that sort of damage etc..quote other instances when this shipping company mishandled packages that sort of stuff. Get the lawyer to use his imagination to really prove in legal terms how much the shipping company are at fault.

There's a good chance the shipping company will take one look at it and decide it's worth paying $2000 insurance than paying their own lawfirm to respond and contest the damage.

Ie, nothing like lawyers to scare companies into doing the right thing.

[swisseuro]

What you need is a lawyer, obviously if you have any lawyer mates then that will be much cheaper or free.

Get the lawyer to make an official shipping insurance claim in legal wording and on his law firm's paper (you want the lawfirms logo . Get him to make lots of points about how the package must have been willfully damaged to sustain that sort of damage etc..quote other instances when this shipping company mishandled packages that sort of stuff. Get the lawyer to use his imagination to really prove in legal terms how much the shipping company are at fault.

There's a good chance the shipping company will take one look at it and decide it's worth paying $2000 insurance than paying their own lawfirm to respond and contest the damage.

Ie, nothing like lawyers to scare companies into doing the right thing.

complete agree, with companies like this get a lawyer involved, i am pretty sure you end up getting the money.

[Mr.Coffee]

complete agree, with companies like this get a lawyer involved, i am pretty sure you end up getting the money.

usually the lawyers get most of it.

[dar303]

That's why you need a domesticated lawyer of your own, a freind/slave-lawyer!

[marco]

Hello,

i would like to post some words about the damage of this laser...
some time ago i repaired the other halfnote Lasers from Simon
and he also gave me some spareparts for this job.

To break away the optics and the soldered KTP mount is anything
but easy, special the remove the optics that are fixed a good epoxy
glue. The laser must have seem a very massive impact to cause such a
lind of damage. It is had to imagine that a laserhead that is wrapped into bubble foil
and packed into a box will sind such much g-force that this small parts will break.
Normaly Lightwave performs G testings on thier lasers, a lot of them can handle
extrem g-forces without damage.

greetings,
marco

[-bart-]

Without accusing anyone particular, if you read through (and between) the lines of all the related halfnote threads, you'll find that the cavity may have been opened on more than one occasion by non-lightwave-certified engineers.
Also the frame that used to support this laser is not mounted on rubber shock absorbers because of it's extreme g-force immunity of its contents.

@ lasershow.dk you might want to contact junktronics, it's might be that the remains of this laser have some value to him.

[ElektroFreak]

Hello,

i would like to post some words about the damage of this laser...
some time ago i repaired the other halfnote Lasers from Simon
and he also gave me some spareparts for this job.

To break away the optics and the soldered KTP mount is anything
but easy, special the remove the optics that are fixed a good epoxy
glue. The laser must have seem a very massive impact to cause such a
lind of damage. It is had to imagine that a laserhead that is wrapped into bubble foil
and packed into a box will sind such much g-force that this small parts will break.
Normaly Lightwave performs G testings on thier lasers, a lot of them can handle
extrem g-forces without damage.

greetings,
marco

hmm.. the plot thickens. I think marco knows what he's talking about.. definitely got my eyebrow raised.