"John Smith" wrote in message
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This has come up on another forum. Let's say you specialise in repairing/servicing
vintage hi-fi. A customer brings a system to you to repair the record deck but you see
that the high voltage valve/capacitor components are in a dangerous state. The customer
says just service the deck.

Do you have any duty to decline the repair/service as you can't return the system in a
safe state? Or any liability if you do?

I appreciate this isn't the same as say a gas boiler.

You're clearly not dealing with a sensible person. As such he's
to be avoided as much as possible, and is certainly not someone
you really want to have any business dealings with.

Regardless of any legal liability, if anything goes does wrong who
do you think is the first person he's going to blame ? Himself
or you ?

What sort of profit do you hope to make if you do as he asked ?

Assuming you get enough business dealing with sensible people
as it is, is it really worth the extra grief ?

Of course this may leave the problem as to how to resolve the
situation. Maybe the sudden unavailability of an essential
component due to Covid, may fit the bill.



michael adams

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