| When a guitar tech won't return property...
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I sent an unfinished bass body to a shop for painting back in January. The shop and I agreed on $295 + 8 to 10 weeks for a turnaround time. I have not heard anything back from them in over four months, and calling or emailing is proving pointless. Last email I got said they had lost all of their order notes and asking what I sent them and what paint job I wanted, and this was after the 8 weeks was up.
The Better Business Bureau has gotten involved and been unable to contact this guy as well, but he recently did a job for someone I know on another forum so I know he didn't drop off the face of the earth.
I used PayPal back in December (outside the 45 day window to dispute the charges) to prepay for his services and as of right now he has my $295 for the paint job + my $205 Warmoth P body and apparently isn't planning on giving it back.
The problem I'm running in to is that this comes up to exactly $500, generally small claims court territory, but this involves two states. I am in Kansas and the shop is another state. I'm coming up empty handed looking for a way to press charges on this guy.
Has anyone been in a similar situation that could provide some feedback here? I'm leaving the shops' name out of it on purpose as at this point I am really just interested in getting my property back and don't want this turning into a mess about its reputation or whatever else.
Any and all help is appreciated. | 
