Need a Nickles worth of advice
I bought a trolling motor on Ebay that mounts to my main motor. It's a Min Kota EM54. It was advertised as being a 12V trolling motor. There was no mention of damage or cut wires..etc..nor was either apparent in the pictures..
So...the big brown truck delivered it today. the driver asked me what it was because "it was bouncing around inside the box and made a hole in the side".
I opened the box:
1. Main wires from the main box to the motor had been cut (large gauge wire.probably larger than 10gauge).
2. The propeller has 2 "dings" in the trailing edge of the prop apparently due to being improperly packaged for shipping.
3. The unit is apparently 24V. I contacted Min Kota service who sent me a 2 page doc showing the parts list and installation notes. the EM54 is ONLY shown to run on 24V.
I sent an email to the selller detailing these three items..
I've already spent $165 for a trolling battery, battery box,...etc
My options seem to be:
1. come up with another $100++ for another matching battery/box, somehow fix the wires and ignore the dings in the prop.
2. work something out with the seller.. no clue what..
3. Return it/file claim with paypal/ebay.
looking for thoughts, opinions, comments..
I'm not real experienced at this so I was not prepared for all this.
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