Bust-Up over Bogus Blender! | Part 2

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]You said you took the cups out, without even looking the base until after the-- I took the cups out to wash them.

[00:00:03]I'm like, what is this?

[00:00:04]And then that's when I contacted the defendant.

[00:00:06]Yeah, you can respond to what you wanted to respond to, and then I'll open it up. SCOTT BROWNFELD: OK.

[00:00:10]She was going to pay.

[00:00:12]I said, OK, what's good for you?

[00:00:13]And it's all in the text. She said, OK, Friday the 20th.

[00:00:15]I said, OK, what time?

[00:00:17]She said, after 5:00.

[00:00:18]I said, OK.

[00:00:19]So Thursday, the day before, I texted to confirm, hey, are we still on for tomorrow?

[00:00:25]I never heard back.

[00:00:26]So I texted her.

[00:00:28]I said, I'm assuming you don't plan on giving me my money back, and no response.

[00:00:31]That's when I proceeded to take out the small claims.

[00:00:34]And I just want to say the fact that she's possibly accusing me of changing the stuff in the box is just ridiculous.

[00:00:40]YODIT TEWOLDE: Yeah, I don't find you credible, ma'am.

[00:00:41]SCOTT BROWNFELD: It's ridiculous.

[00:00:43]YODIT TEWOLDE: To say you don't, but to claim that he swapped opt this out, that you looked at a NutriBullet, when you just testified that you didn't even know what a NutriBullet was, makes zero sense to me.

[00:00:54]What makes sense is that when you opened the box, you saw the contents.

[00:00:59]I'm not accusing you of replacing it, but you're the one who opened the box.

[00:01:03]SCOTT BROWNFELD: But where would I have gotten something to replace it with?

[00:01:06]RACHEL JUAREZ: But you're accusing-- but you're accusing him of that.

[00:01:08]HELEN CORBELLA: Well, once it left my house, I don't know what happened.

[00:01:11]YODIT TEWOLDE: At the end of the day, I found it very egregious that you were dismissing his complaints over $25.

[00:01:16]Hold on, I'm talking.

[00:01:17]That you were dismissing his complaints for $25.

[00:01:22]Whether he wanted cash or is not your problem.

[00:01:25]Give him the $25, Venmo.

[00:01:27]He wouldn't have to-- HELEN CORBELLA: I could have.

[00:01:28]Why didn't-- HELEN CORBELLA: He said no.

[00:01:29]YODIT TEWOLDE: Who cares? - On the phone.

[00:01:31]So how am I supposed to Venmo him if I don't have his Venmo?

[00:01:33]He wanted cash under my mat, right-- RACHEL JUAREZ: Don't they have Cash Apps or-- --right then and there. YODIT TEWOLDE: --or numbers.

[00:01:38]And I was working.

[00:01:39]Why don't you just tell-- you could have told him.

[00:01:41]Absolutely not true.

[00:01:42]I would have taken it in pennies.

[00:01:43]If she said, hey, come pick up 2,500 pennies, I said, OK, I'll be right over.

[00:01:47]YODIT TEWOLDE: You could have also-- I would have that money anyway.

[00:01:50]It's not true.

[00:01:51]HELEN CORBELLA: But he only gave me 48 hours.

[00:01:51]Like, he was like-- No, no, ma'am, he actually scheduled the meetup, when you were available, and you didn't follow through.

[00:01:57]HELEN CORBELLA: I got called into work because there was a crisis.

[00:01:59]Again-- again, but this is your mistake to correct.

[00:02:02]Do you not understand that? And then you want to-- It wasn't a mistake.

[00:02:04]YODIT TEWOLDE: --in here and sue him for $4,000.

[00:02:05]Are you crazy?

[00:02:07]HELEN CORBELLA: I've had to take off multiple days of work because of this. YODIT TEWOLDE: How?

[00:02:10]Because he's suing me for-- YODIT TEWOLDE: You never met him.

[00:02:12]--for $25.

[00:02:13]YODIT TEWOLDE: You never met up with him.

[00:02:14]How did you miss work?

[00:02:15]HELEN CORBELLA: Because I had to come to court, and because he was messaging me, harassing me while I was trying to work.

[00:02:19]YODIT TEWOLDE: You could've given him-- you could have given his $25 back, and you wouldn't be here.

[00:02:23]Yeah, I wanted to.

[00:02:24]RACHEL JUAREZ: You weren't trying to give him his $25 back.

[00:02:26]You weren't.

[00:02:28]All I know is he took it out of the box, looked at it, said, OK. - You don't know that.

[00:02:31]Your husband's not here.

[00:02:33]You didn't do the exchange.

[00:02:34]Stop saying that.

[00:02:35]HELEN CORBELLA: I don't think he'd lie to me.

[00:02:37]YODIT TEWOLDE: You should have returned the money.

[00:02:38]RACHEL JUAREZ: Are we done? - I tried.

[00:02:39]YODIT TEWOLDE: No, you didn't.

[00:02:40]And the last thing I want to address is you say that this is an as is sale.

[00:02:44]If I say I'm going to give you a cat, but it's in the box, and then I give it to you, and it's a dog, that's not an as is sale, right?

[00:02:50]An as is sale is, you know what, it turns out it was a bad motor.

[00:02:54]It was a lemon blender.

[00:02:55]As long as you didn't know, it's his problem, that it has a faulty motor.

[00:02:59]But when he buys a NutriBullet, and it ain't a NutriBullet, that's not an as is sale, right?

[00:03:04]We have what we need.

[00:03:06]The parties are excused while we deliberate in this matter.

[00:03:08]Thank you both. - This court is now in recess.

[00:03:10]You can step out.

[00:03:11][theme music] So this reminds me of the $5 latte case that we had.

[00:03:18]That we had someone sue over a $5 latte over principle, and I understood it.

[00:03:26]It was annoying, but I got what the plaintiff was saying, and it's similar to what the plaintiff is saying here.

[00:03:31]That this was something he bought.

[00:03:33]He trusted that he was buying an actual NutriBullet.

[00:03:37]The defendant made certain claims.

[00:03:39]And for her to not make this right, and I think it was her resistance, like, you're almost bothering me, when you're in the wrong.

[00:03:45]I think that's what the plaintiff was so emotional about.

[00:03:48]But the defendant, for her to assert that the plaintiff came all the way down here and had swapped these items out in order to bring her to court over $25 is insane. I think that's what she did.

[00:03:59]And that's why she sold it for cheap.

[00:04:01]DAN MENTZER: Yes, yes, yes. - Yeah.

[00:04:02]DAN MENTZER: And as you point out with as is sale, and typically, look, you bought this thing.

[00:04:07]It's on you, unless it was misrepresented.

[00:04:10]And we saw his picture of the listing, and it was misrepresented.

[00:04:14]And then add to it that it was not a NutriBullet.

[00:04:16]That's a whole other level of deception.

[00:04:18]- Yes. - Yeah.

[00:04:19]I'm thinking it was just the cups that were the problem.

[00:04:22]Now, it's the entire thing.

[00:04:23]I think she had to have known.

[00:04:25]And when he said, today, I would have taken 2,500 pennies, I think he would have.

[00:04:30]I think he would have gotten a truck, driven for his 2,500 pennies, and it would have been-- it would have been over.

[00:04:35]I want to give him more than $25.

[00:04:37]DAN MENTZER: Punitive?

[00:04:38]No.

[00:04:39]I just think what she did is so egregious, but that's probably-- that's me being as angry as the plaintiff is, and I think I need to resist that temptation.

[00:04:46]So $25 in favor of the plaintiff.

[00:04:48]And a nice little wrap on the-- See you later on the countersuit.

[00:04:52]All right, so we have a verdict.

[00:04:53]RACHEL JUAREZ: We have a verdict.