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Public statement source · YT720
$10,000 LATER...Dehydrator is here
The baseline for a grievance that hardens into an announced lawsuit six weeks later. Every figure he would later cite is established here, itemised on camera: $5,000 machine, $2,500 freight, $650 forklift rental, $300 to the operator, $350 insurance, $2,000 to the electrician to wire it. In the vlog published 2021-09-21 — 42 days later (2021-08-10.. 2021-09-21, computed as a date difference) — he says "i'm suing this electrician … at least ten thousand dollars in damages on that dehydrator", i.e. he claims the whole installed cost from the contractor he paid $2,000 of it to. On this date there is no grievance at all; the machine has just arrived and the electrician is due back "tomorrow or wednesday" to finish and be paid. ⚠ These are spoken figures with no invoice behind them; §7's warning about numbers applies, and the $10,000 total is his own rounding of the itemised parts. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. The electrician, the machine and the importer are never named and grep to zero in aliases.csv, lawsuits.csv (case_title and defendants), disputes.csv, research_notes.csv and litigation_timeline.csv. Unresolved, not untracked.
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i think we're in over ten thousand dollars to get this god forsaken machine in here and the machine was around 5000 it cost 2500 to get here so that's 7 500 and then just to get it off the truck and into the warehouse it cost me i think over another thousand because it was 650 for the forklift rental i had to give the guy 300 to use the forklift which is the whole story i'll tell and then my insurance company charged me 350 to ensure the forklifts for that one day and then i had to pay an electrician two thousand dollars to wire this
The baseline for a grievance that hardens into an announced lawsuit six weeks later. Every figure he would later cite is established here, itemised on camera: $5,000 machine, $2,500 freight, $650 forklift rental, $300 to the operator, $350 insurance, $2,000 to the electrician to wire it. In the vlog published 2021-09-21 — 42 days later (2021-08-10.. 2021-09-21, computed as a date difference) — he says "i'm suing this electrician … at least ten thousand dollars in damages on that dehydrator", i.e. he claims the whole installed cost from the contractor he paid $2,000 of it to. On this date there is no grievance at all; the machine has just arrived and the electrician is due back "tomorrow or wednesday" to finish and be paid. ⚠ These are spoken figures with no invoice behind them; §7's warning about numbers applies, and the $10,000 total is his own rounding of the itemised parts. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. The electrician, the machine and the importer are never named and grep to zero in aliases.csv, lawsuits.csv (case_title and defendants), disputes.csv, research_notes.csv and litigation_timeline.csv. Unresolved, not untracked.