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The equipment he is talking about is itemised three minutes later (see the next-but-one quote) and includes tilt skillets. C096 (Frank Tufano v. Fernando Gil et al, filed 2025-03-04) pleads that a Garland tilt skillet, a Hobart band saw and a Hollymatic patty machine were sold to him represented as fully operational "but that none functioned once hooked up." Here, 484 days before that filing, the stated reason the equipment is not working for him is that it was never installed — the installation cost exceeds the purchase price — and he is contemplating reselling it. That is a different account of the same equipment's non-use from the one later pleaded, and any use of the pleaded "once hooked up" allegation should carry it. It does not disprove the pleading: equipment not installed in November 2023 could have been installed later. Recorded as a tension to check against the complaint, not as a contradiction. No seller, company, case or court is named. Possible case/dispute link: C096 — tentative, unconfirmed. The link rests on subject matter (used commercial kitchen equipment, tilt skillets) alone; neither Fernando Gil nor Nando Equipment Inc is named or alluded to anywhere in this video.
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although we don't have the equipment set up to to make it a little nicer which might not happen the I think the cost of installing that equipment is going to be more than I paid for it so I can't really afford to do it I might just have to resell everything
The equipment he is talking about is itemised three minutes later (see the next-but-one quote) and includes tilt skillets. C096 (Frank Tufano v. Fernando Gil et al, filed 2025-03-04) pleads that a Garland tilt skillet, a Hobart band saw and a Hollymatic patty machine were sold to him represented as fully operational "but that none functioned once hooked up." Here, 484 days before that filing, the stated reason the equipment is not working for him is that it was never installed — the installation cost exceeds the purchase price — and he is contemplating reselling it. That is a different account of the same equipment's non-use from the one later pleaded, and any use of the pleaded "once hooked up" allegation should carry it. It does not disprove the pleading: equipment not installed in November 2023 could have been installed later. Recorded as a tension to check against the complaint, not as a contradiction. No seller, company, case or court is named. Possible case/dispute link: C096 — tentative, unconfirmed. The link rests on subject matter (used commercial kitchen equipment, tilt skillets) alone; neither Fernando Gil nor Nando Equipment Inc is named or alluded to anywhere in this video.
hood guy that quoted me on installing the hood said total price 2500 which is kind of crazy crazy considering it's almost all labor and he said he needed a $1,500 deposit for the um like the the the vent I was like dude it's it's a it's a cylindrical piece of aluminum there's no way it costs him more than a few hundred bucks so I was like that's okay just tell me where to pick up the uh Hood vent order it for me and I'll pay for it haven't heard a [ __ ] word from the guy so some dishonest business going on as typical people I [ __ ] deal with but go figure
A complete, dated contractor grievance in the shape this dataset repeatedly sees one take before a filing: a quoted price, a disputed deposit, a counter-proposal, then silence, then a generalisation from the incident to a class ("typical people I [ __ ] deal with"). Nothing here announces, threatens or reports a filing, and no name, company, court or case is spoken — so the grievance is recorded and the party is deliberately left open. The trade is also distinct from every tracked contractor matter: C023's contractors are roofing/gutter/construction firms at two Scranton residential properties, and C002/C077's is a refrigeration contractor; a commercial-kitchen exhaust-hood installer matches neither. Recorded as an untraced pre-filing grievance, not as an adjacency. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. Searched aliases.csv, lawsuits.csv (case_title and defendants), research_notes.csv and litigation_timeline.csv for a hood, vent, exhaust or HVAC-installation counterparty; nothing matches. Not recorded as untracked — nobody is named, so there is nothing to look up.
you know I wouldn't have bought it we got that big Hood over there I think that was like $11,000 steam Kettle was very expensive exhaust fan was a few hundred and then we got the the Tilt skillets in there between the aisles so yeah all in is about $10,000 worth the stuff that I really shouldn't have bought uh and then I mean the prices were were too too good guys like all that stuff brand new is about $75,000
Places tilt skillets — the first item pleaded in C096's claims summary — in his warehouse, uninstalled, on 2023-11-06, and prices the whole used-equipment purchase. It is the earliest inventory statement about this equipment now in the archive; the previously published 506WeegDulE statement (VS903, 2023-11-27) is about the same supplier relationship still functioning three weeks later. ⚠ The two dollar figures in this one breath contradict each other: the hood alone is given as "$11,000" and the total as "about $10,000". They are recorded as spoken and not reconciled — a figure spoken on camera is the least reliable content this archive carries, and either number could be a caption defect. Neither may be used without a documentary check. Possible case/dispute link: C096 — tentative, unconfirmed, on subject matter only. No seller is named. Note the direction: he says the prices "were too too good", i.e. he is pleased with the bargain at this date, which is the opposite of the grievance later pleaded.
my accountant was auditing some charges and like my uh my website provider charged me like $6,000 worth of stuff over the past 3 years um that they shouldn't have so I'm trying to sort that out otherwise are going to have another headache but uh hey you know may maybe eventually I have to start biting back at these [ __ ] after they steal money from me but you know what am I going to steal money back like
A dated first-person allegation that the e-commerce platform his businesses run on billed him roughly $6,000 it should not have over three years, sourced to his own accountant's audit. It is recorded as a grievance and nothing more. ⚠ It must not be read as pre-filing material for the tracked Shopify litigation: C013/C054 (and the earlier C040 they repeat) are about customers, reviewers and chargebacks — VS356 records that "chargebacks are the factual core of the tracked Shopify dispute group" — whereas this is an overbilling allegation running the other way. That is the fourth direction trap, right party, wrong grievance, and no party is in fact named here at all. The closest thing in the video to a prospective-action statement is "maybe eventually I have to start biting back", which he immediately declines to specify and defers ("I'll complain about that when it comes to it"); it names no instrument, so it is not a threatened filing. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. Shopify is a tracked defendant (D0267 and related ids in aliases.csv; C013 filed 2025-06-06, removed as C054) and is his e-commerce provider, but he does not name it or any provider here, and the grievance does not match what DSP002 pleads. Deliberately left unlinked.
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805063/2025E — Frank Tufano v. Fernando Gil et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 17:24 researched as bearing on this case: [17:24]–[17:38] — The commercial kitchen equipment is bought but never installed, on cost grounds.