3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

Harrygoodwrench wrote:

Just a not so little side story. I was in my tractor Supply a few weeks back and they had a used Champion 46514 Watt gen sitting there with a $150 tag on it. I wandered away as I already had one for my camp and just a week earlier bought a Champion 5,000 watt for home back-up.
Well, I did my wandering and came back to the gen set sitting there. i looked it over and it was dusty but like new.
I asked how form that $150. price was and they got the manager. I asked why it was on sale. They said the customer said the RPM's kept going higher & higher and he shut it down then returned it.
The manager said make a offer. I thought for a moment and said I have $75. in my pocket and he said sold.
I brought it home with later intentions of checking it out and if it was defective I at least had a parts gen.
Well, we got a bad ice storm a few days later and lost power. I hadn't even took the 5,000 watt out of the box. I thought about the 3,500, and put some gas in it checked the oil. Started on first pull.
I ran that baby for three days to power the house sparingly.
I've come to the belief their was nothing wrong with that gen set at all and the original customer bought the gen during a power outage and then returned it after use saying it was defective.
Well, I'm a happy camper for that gamble. Great little gens these Champions.

Now, I bet I can tell you the rest of the story you probably don't know.

When the generator was returned as "defective" a claim was submitted to CPE under the product warranty by TSC.

CPE issued a credit to TSC and the store for the wholesale cost of the generator.

Rather than pay the freight to return the generator, CPE issued a "Field Destroy" order. This meant the TSC store was suppose to render the generator useless with a sledge hammer (or something like that) and then throw it into the trash.

But, the manager at your store did not field destroy the generator. He kept it and then put it out for resale (CPE does NOT sell used or returned generators in the USA). When you gave him the $75 it was all profit to him.

The dishonest buyer that used and returned the generator got away with his scam.

You got a good deal on the used generator.

The store or store manager picked up an extra $75.

CPE got the shaft. :S