Quote Originally Posted by phatboislim
he did say..."FIRST PERSON WITH CASH GETS THE CAMCORDER"...so personally i REALLY dont see what the deal is. everyone knows of everyone's flaking ability, so with that said and with him saying first person w/ cash gets the camcorder...i dont see anything wrong with the situation, the other guy just didnt push as hard as someone else did to get it...
If he agreed to sell it to YOU and then turned around and sold it to someone else, there is a problem. Like I said, IA rules specifically forbid ebay style of selling. So while I understand that "money talks and BS walks", I also think that if you told someone that you would sell it to them FIRST and that person had not done anything wrong, i.e. flaked out on an initial meeting, asked for additional time, started wanting to change the deal midstream, then it's not fair to them to just back out of it.

Again, people are not putting themselves in the other person's shoes for a minute. Try it and see if you think it would be "cool" and "no big deal". You would probably be as bitter as this guy is.

How about this: You go to a car dealership to buy a car. You haggle and get the car you want for the price you wanted. You go to eat something while they "prep" the car for you to take home. When you come back, the salesman tells you that he sold it to someone else because they offered him more money than you did and there are no more cars left on the lot. Would you think that was fair to you? Would you think that was conducting business in a straight up manner? If not, why not since "money talks and BS walks", right?

To me, and I may be wrong since I'm outside looking in, that's exactly what it looks like happened here. Guy made an agreement to sell a camcorder to one person for X amount, and before they finalized the deal someone else came in and gave them X+ amount and he took it. Again, to me that's not fair IF they did in fact already have a tentative deal made with someone else.

What the seller should have probably done was to have given the original guy a choice. Either finalize the deal with me by XYZ date or I'll take this other offer I have on the table that's actually higher than yours. What's wrong with being straight up with people?