So I get my buddy a Corsair--a cheapie I know but he's a newbie and willing to keep me company at my accustomed riverside haunts. And we're fishing a small river furtively for a few hours with nothing but a few chunky dollies to put a wiggle in our lines. And then--SPLASH--and there's my buddy standing there with a limp line and his jaw in the sand. Something big hit him and ran, and he complained that it was impossible to grab his reel handle, because it spun too fast. This perplexed me, and we traded rigs for a while, and sure enough...after only four or five hours of use, the anti-reverse on that Corsair was out. I'd cast, and retrieve a little, and when I took my thumb off the spool it's let out line, with the handles spinning.
Well, I took the reel back to the shop I bought it from (can I mention their name on this board? It was Holiday Sports, on the 20 just off I-5) and the gentalman there informed me that as with all rod and reel purchases I must have received a half-sheet of paper dissolving them of any and all responsibility for malfunctioning products(I didn't)and that he couldn't help me...sheesh. So now I'm stuck with a nonfunctioning Shimano in the box...
I bought my buddy a new Ambassaduer, so I have no use for the Shimano. My questions to you run thus: do I (a) go whine and complain to the various employees of Holiday Sports, (b) try to exchange the reel at another location, or (c) contact Shimano in hopes of recompense? What's my best bet? I live on Orcas, so it's not like I can swing by the store any time I please (not that I would, ever again, after this fiasco...)
Thanks.

[This message has been edited by fishkisser99 (edited 12-12-1999).]