I hate nickel and dimers.....
OK so about a month ago I sold my friend Greg's old LS1 block to a guy for $400.00, a pretty good deal if you ask me as the block was in ready to go condition, it barely looked broken in. He arranged shipping and the day after I had a bill of lading (the day I got it we had an ice storm) I have the block sent out at around 8-9 AM. Not too bad right? Well he gets it and immediately comes after me because it is missing the 10 small main bolts in the sides. At this point I am being a nice guy so i say we will work something out but I was out of town. I get back to find he is pissed off and wants to file a grievance. WTF right? Now I am a little torqued up. He got a block he would have had to pay $1300-$1700 for new and have it shipped and I didn't even charge him a crating fee. He did pay for the tie down straps and engine bag, which was nice. So anyway he shoots me a part # for the mains and adds some more parts that I know don't come on a new block because I took them off to put in mine and wants money for that, so I say no. I was willing to pay for just the main bolts so he sends me a bill for $33.85. I look up the part number on GMPD and the LIST is $2.57 for 5 bolts, or $1.53 online for 5.So really worst case he paid, or should have paid, about $5.00 for the bolts. So I told him as soon as I can I will paypal him $7.00, to cover tax etc, and them he can pay me $25.00 for crating the engine, 6 gallons of gas at $2.50 a gallon for gas to deliver the crate to the depot, $1.00 for toll bridge and $250.00 for the day off work I had to take to deliver the crate. Somehow I think I will be getting negative feedback on this one. My last E-mail is going to say "next time spend $1300.00 on the block, plus another $375.00 to ship it or be happy you got a good block for $400.00 and had to put $10.00 worth of parts in it". God I hate most people.
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-Nick
9/11/01- Never Forget
2002 Pontiac Trans-Am WS6 # 206
Chasing 10's
469RWH/437RWTQ
11.05 @ 123
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