KOTA KINABALU: The Consumer Claims Tribunal yesterday ordered an owner of an apartment unit here to refund RM4,350 rental deposit to a China national.
Tribunal president Datuk Dr Lawrence S.H. Thien made the order on Wong Tze Chin, who owns an apartment unit at 1Borneo here, after putting aside Wong’s counter claim over his damaged and missing goods in the apartment.
The president held that there was no evidence that his renter, Yu Lei, had damaged the house and Wong could not prove his counter claim.
According to Wong, he wanted to claim about RM18,000 for damage done on his wall, furniture, including sofa, air conditioner and lock sets, while other missing goods, included kitchen utensils and hangers.
He also said Yu Lei, who is a student, did not take care of the cleanliness of the house as the house was smelly and even had photos of the condition of the house before and after.
However, Yu Lei told the president that the damage was not done by him and the house condition was not as described by Wong when he left it.
“He made the complaint on the damage three weeks after I had left. Why did he not complain about it when I left on January 1?” he asked.
In another case, Dr Lawrence ordered a vehicle workshop to refund RM4,000 to a man who claimed that he had lost the use of a Proton Perdana car after the car was put in the workshop for two years to be repaired.
The car owner, Kamaruddin Md Ali, who was represented by a man, told the tribunal that initial quotation of the car repair was RM2,280 for timing belt repair.
However, the total cost for the repairs went up to RM8,510 with no quotations of other repaired parts and had paid for them.
He also said the car was still in the workshop since November 2014, which had been two years, and he had to pay for the car insurance and road tax for the two years.
The workshop owner on the other hand, replied that he had contacted on the repair matter through Whatsapp and got consent to repair it.
He also said he had informed that the car was repaired but no one had come to take it while labour cost of RM460 was yet to be paid.
The tribunal also ordered the workshop to make a refund to the car owner and to allow the car owner to take the car from the workshop within 14 days starting from yesterday.