A customer brings in a musical instrument for repair and after a long period of time the company receives no contact back from the customer. A certified letter has been sent and a documented paper trail is kept, but I can not find any Georgia state law that gives a direct time frame that the instrument must be stored before legally claiming.
2006-12-27 04:51:17 · 4 answers · asked by vixenfay 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
After a reasonable amount of time and proper effort on the part of the company I think they would have the right to sell an item left in their possession so they can get the money back that they put into repairing it.
2006-12-27 04:54:51 · answer #1 · answered by SKYDOGSLIM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An old addage suggests that posession is 9/10 of the law. If a certified notice is sent to the owner of the instrument and there is no reponse in 30 days, then any court of law would find it to be reasonable that the store owner can legally claim it as his own.
There was a situation on People's Court where this old man and his grandson brought this old horse saddle to an antique shop to so they would have a place to store it. In exchange for storing it there, they allowed the shop owner to hang it on the wall for decorative purposes. Essentially the agreement was that the old man could come get the saddle any time he wanted it and any time he needed the shop owner to store it again, he would hang it on the wall.
A few years went by and the ownership of the antique shop changed hands. The old man went to the shop to get his saddle and because the new owner knew nothing of this arrangement, he wouldn't allow the old man to have his saddle back. When the judge made his final ruling he said that he truely believed that the horse saddle belonged to the old man but he could not order it to be returned simply because it was in the shop for a number of years and there was no written proof that such an arrangement was made.
2006-12-27 13:06:34 · answer #2 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am the manager of a Sears parts and repair center in Manassas, VA. We send out certified letters to customers who have left their items here and we give them 30 days to pick up their stuff. If they do not contact us, their items go into the trash.
2006-12-27 12:57:07 · answer #3 · answered by csr1138 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The process the company has gone through IE: calling the person,sending mail, waiting for a period of time is what we call Due Diligence and would allow the company to use a means to recover losses incurred
2006-12-27 13:00:09 · answer #4 · answered by egotist61 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋