Allen Grantudo Sold me a defective umbrella. Phoenix Arizona

It was Sunday March 23 when I was walking through the streets of Phoenix Arizona, something I do often on Sunday mornings. Immediately after turning left onto 3rd Street, I was approached by an umbrella salesman.  He stopped me directly in my path of walking, and with at least a dozen umbrellas in hand, began to start telling me another rainstorm was heading out way and to expect heavy water dropping from above in less than 1 hour.  All i had to do was whip out my telephone and check, but i decided to believe this man. 

I purchased a $57 umbrella.  After walking for about half a mile i began to grow suspicious that maybe it wasn't going to rain and i was just swindled out of literally half the money in my checking account.   

I pulled out my telephone and sure enough,  80 and sunny all day.  This man completely lied to me, and sold me an umbrella under false pretenses, just to make a profit.  I was insanely upset.  I opened the umbrella up to see what brand it was and see if it was really worth $57.  I found the exact umbrella on ebay for $9. This man completely ripped me off and totally ruined my entire Sunday.  As i tried to close the umbrella back up i couldn't get it to go down, it was totally defective.  I turned around and had to walk half a mile back to where the salesman was with a broken umbrella.   It was embarrassing because several cars honked at me while driving by and one of the cars had teenage kids scream noises at me while driving by,  presuably because i had an umbrella and was clearly walking with total rage. They had thought i was some kind of joke.  

After finding the salesman, he refused to give me a refund starting that he has to put food on his table and he felt like i was harassing him.  I waited around the corner for 2 hours for him to leave and i followed him home.  Do not buy an umbrella from this low life scammer. It never rains in arizona, and this man simply played into my fears of getting wet on my walk. 

Now i am stuck with a useless broken umbrella. I will be reporting this man to the local citizens watch group in Facebook in hopes they take care of this problem.