Hi All,
Just wanted to share an experience with you all that happened 15 mins back with me...i had set up a 29 biocube which started to leak all of a sudden and so i had to look on MR if someone was selling any used tank....that's when i noticed a 38 gal IM Nuvo put up on sale for 120$...without wasting much time i called the fellow reefer and we cut the deal and i drove all the way from NJ today to pick up the tank as i had the urgency to transfer everything from the leaking 29 gal biocube to a new tank...
I picked up the tank and came home....since the compartments weren't cleaned, i decided to give the tank a vinegar bath....so i just removed the pump and started adding water in the compartments....the moment water got added till the mid level....the black partition between the tank and the compartments POPPED out from the sides.....i was surprised and i immediately texted the seller, if this was normal or was the partition broken already......the fellow reefer without being much concerned about the situation immediately started accusing me that " u must have broken the partition while cleaning, u must have pushed it hard with your hands and he cannot refund the money now and i should be MAN enough to accept my mistake and he doesn't have time for all this BS etc etc etc".....
I was speechless and i kept repeating to the reefer that i am honest and i did not even touch the tank to clean it, i only removed the pump to add water and the partition just popped out, but he kept on accusing me of something that i did not do.....
So i stopped texting back and just decided to write on MR about this experience and pour my heart out coz we all are here on MR for a reason - "REEFING" and that we are reefers, hobbyists, some are newbies (like me), some are senior members, some are veterans in this hobby with loads of experience and after such an experience, i feel that there is no humanity left and why am i in this hobby where i am forced to accept a mistake i didn't make!
Still i am 'MAN' enough to not disclose the name of the fellow reefer or give him a 'bad rating'.......in the end i am short of words and don't know what more to say as i feel duped, cheated and fooled......
I learned a lesson today that never to trust anyone.....
Just wanted to share an experience with you all that happened 15 mins back with me...i had set up a 29 biocube which started to leak all of a sudden and so i had to look on MR if someone was selling any used tank....that's when i noticed a 38 gal IM Nuvo put up on sale for 120$...without wasting much time i called the fellow reefer and we cut the deal and i drove all the way from NJ today to pick up the tank as i had the urgency to transfer everything from the leaking 29 gal biocube to a new tank...
I picked up the tank and came home....since the compartments weren't cleaned, i decided to give the tank a vinegar bath....so i just removed the pump and started adding water in the compartments....the moment water got added till the mid level....the black partition between the tank and the compartments POPPED out from the sides.....i was surprised and i immediately texted the seller, if this was normal or was the partition broken already......the fellow reefer without being much concerned about the situation immediately started accusing me that " u must have broken the partition while cleaning, u must have pushed it hard with your hands and he cannot refund the money now and i should be MAN enough to accept my mistake and he doesn't have time for all this BS etc etc etc".....
I was speechless and i kept repeating to the reefer that i am honest and i did not even touch the tank to clean it, i only removed the pump to add water and the partition just popped out, but he kept on accusing me of something that i did not do.....
So i stopped texting back and just decided to write on MR about this experience and pour my heart out coz we all are here on MR for a reason - "REEFING" and that we are reefers, hobbyists, some are newbies (like me), some are senior members, some are veterans in this hobby with loads of experience and after such an experience, i feel that there is no humanity left and why am i in this hobby where i am forced to accept a mistake i didn't make!
Still i am 'MAN' enough to not disclose the name of the fellow reefer or give him a 'bad rating'.......in the end i am short of words and don't know what more to say as i feel duped, cheated and fooled......
I learned a lesson today that never to trust anyone.....
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