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I bought a black iPod for $100.00 from L*** my former homemaker (I wouldn't recommend her), of the (name of agency removed). The battery died a week later and L*** took the iPod back to have a friend who works at an Apple Store look at it, or so she told me. That was over a year ago. Last time I asked about it (4 months ago), she said it was somewhere in her house and she would have to locate it.

Last Monday, I left L*** a voicemail message (Thursday, I left a text message), stating that I get the iPod or the $100.00 back or I would have to involve (name of agency removed) in this matter. She came here over two years, so she knows where I live, but I have had no contact from her.

I trusted her and that is why I made the purchase.

What can I do to rectify this situation?

I am 49, disabled, living alone. L*** is a few years older, living with her husband and son.

Sue her in small claims court.

OP clearly should not have relied on the homemaker, and then shouldn't have waited a year to follow up on the issue.

I suspect that's what a small claims judge would say too.

Water under the bridge.

Go to your state small claims web page and see what the fee is to file. Print out the form if you have a printer. Tell her that you will be suing her. BUT it should just be a bluff, because you are wasting the fee. You would be awarded that fee if you win, but chances are you won't win. You don't have a receipt, and it was so long ago that for all anyone knows, the battery died a natural death months later.

If that bluff doesn't work, there is nothing you can do.

We all have financial losses of varying amounts, right? Shoes that wear out immediately, lousy meal in a restaurant, gave a clerk too much money, sent away for something that never arrived.

Someone, sometime, GAVE you something that more than made up for it, hopefully? A nice unexpected gift? Life is a whole series of such exchanges.

You should have only waited a few weeks, and started some action then. After a year, the agency may not even take it seriously.

Also, to be blunt, if 100 is all the cheated you out of, in some cases, they rob you blind.

But yes, either sue them in small claims court, or just let it drop.

Really you bought this from her, and this is not related to her job duties. So really not the agency issues

You should have only waited a few weeks, and started some action then. After a year, the agency may not even take it seriously.

Also, to be blunt, if 100 is all the cheated you out of, in some cases, they rob you blind.

But yes, either sue them in small claims court, or just let it drop.

Really you bought this from her, and this is not related to her job duties. So really not the agency issues