Hmm.. A good point.. Guilt is a marvelous tool as well...

we had the Phoenix gold mazda protoge demo car go thru a fence. The car was parked on a street(steep street) and the parkling brake was engaged and the car was in gear, non the less it went down the hill on its own(the driver of the car was in whistler at the time, the car was at metro town) the car rolled thru a fence, little damage to the car but the fence is now see thru. The manuf(dist) had to take full responsibility, even thought the car had insurrance and the driver was not responsible. maybe the mazda was at fault, maybe some one hit it and it forced a roll. either way the right thing was done and the house owner has a new fence.

I test alot of prototype gear for my company. Remote starters and alarms mostly, if our unit causes damage to a vechile, for example a starter motor, you can "prove" it was the starter we fix it. Prove, for example, a fused starter relay in the brain. It does happen, sometimes... :D

Well, it was a prototype, not a production line unit.
Was the show tour over? or was the product destined to be returned to the manufacturer before the incident? if so, why was it left in the car and not changed ?
If the product was supposed to stay in the car, I'd say both parties should pay, after all, it was installed with the knowledge that it is not a production line unit, but a prototype.
Just trying to be fair about this, should it ever get to court, it would be interesting to find out how the ruling went. After all consumers and shopkeepers alike have rights and obligations.

[ June 28, 2004, 02:41 AM: Message edited by: Eli47 ]