Ethical choice
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Topic: Ethical choice
Posted By: Nagash1959
Subject: Ethical choice
Date Posted: 30 April 2009 at 1:03am
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Ok, here is the situation...about a year ago a co-worker gave me his gun to fix for him. He is basically the third owner of this gun and it was never cared for. the macro line was blown out, the bolts were rusted, so on and so forth...anyway I told him what I was gonna need just to try and fix it up (I wasn't gonna pay out of pocket for this). He kept dancing around it and then up and quit. Didn't even bother to say anything to me.
Now here I am, a year later with the still totally busted up gun. I totally stripped it, replaced the rusted bolts (that was only like 4 bucks at home depot) and cleaned/oiled it. But it is still missing parts and needs a new macro line and such. With absolutely no way to communicate with this guy, would I be a bad person for either selling the gun off on eBay, or declairing it mine and putting some work into it?
Thoughts? ------------- 98 Custom Cyclone Double E-Trigger Polished Internals Freak kit X-chamber CP Drop w/On/Off |
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 30 April 2009 at 2:01am
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Oooh, good question. If he hasn't contacted you about it, he may have very well forgot about it. But if he does remember it and wants it back, that would make for a very awkward moment. What gun, by the way? As a side note, I'm in the same boat. That's actually how I got my first gun back. Well, my first gun was actually an SL-68 II, but I never really used it. The first gun I actually played with was a Brass Eagle Stingray II Ice (the red one). I traded it to someone a little while later. Years later, I see it at this guy's garage sale, and they couldn't sell it. I asked for it back to fix it up, they said sure. It's been about a year now, and they haven't bugged me about it. I just declared it mine, as I'm sure they don't care about it. :) ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 30 April 2009 at 9:46am
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Try your best to contact him again and if you can't, I would say it's yours. Keep it, fix it, whatever. I think there is a statute of limitations on unclaimed property. After so much time it is considered abandoned. I'm guessing it isn't worth much if he hasn't come back for it. |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 30 April 2009 at 10:12am
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go to HR, they will have his contact info.
The ethical thing is to return the gun. period.
He may tell you to just keep it, but that is HIS choice since it is his gun. To do anything else would be unethical. ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 30 April 2009 at 4:09pm
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Pretty much what FE said. Wait, did I just say that? ------------- 
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Posted By: Nagash1959
Date Posted: 01 May 2009 at 12:06am
Nope. Tried. They won't give it out. He worked security and they won't give out his info to anyone without his permission.
As for what gun, only a Spider Fenix. Nothing to major. But the real issue to me was that it is technically someone elses property, not so much what that property is. ------------- 98 Custom Cyclone Double E-Trigger Polished Internals Freak kit X-chamber CP Drop w/On/Off |
FreeEnterprise wrote:Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 01 May 2009 at 7:11am
Then go to HR, tell them you have something of his, and ask THEM to contact him and have him contact you if he wants it back...
No matter how "cheap" it is, its still his. ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 01 May 2009 at 7:49am
| If you have made a solid effort to contact the guy and can't, I wouldn't worry about it. Again, if he wanted it, he would have made an attempt to get it back. If it makes you feel better, sell the marker and donate the proceeds to charity. |