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Aren't verbal agreements only binding up to $400 dollars? I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere.
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Fate smiles on fools, little children, and P-heads named Leland.
Hope the fleabay deal works out well.
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Just checked this morning and its still at $18,850 with 8 hours to run. Bet it will go well over $19k...
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I only read the opening post (I'm busy), but I think you know the answer, Leland. The only real variable is whether there is confusion about your remarks to the local guy. If you feel you made a commitment to sell to him, I know you will sell to him. I have a strong impression that your integrity is worth a bit more than $500 to you.
Then again, if there is confusion....... Talk to the local guy. Get his impression of whether there is a commitment.
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You know, several threads here have this problem.
No one ACTUALLY READS THEM. Sup..... The local guy actually DID have a problem with committment. Just not what you thought.
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To the original quesiton:
You could have backed out of the deal if your word was worth less than $500 to you.
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Another thought on the original question...
The ebayer was offering $500 more, but how much are you going to lose in sellers fees to ebay?
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This whole thing has been more trouble than it was worth.
The winning bidder is not giving me a warm and fuzzy. They didn't ask for more info or pictures until after they placed their highest bid. That was kind of weird. I also didn't make the situation very clear in the intial post. The issue wasn't so much about the $500 as much as it was about my wife absolutely flipping her lid that I was going to hold to an agreement even though a higher offer had been made. Oddly enough the people at work also felt the same. In the end it didn't seem to matter at all, but I appreciate the insight and comments.  I lucked out in a way, but I am still out about $900.  Oh well... the moral of this story???? Do NOT buy a boat in Montana.
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. Your words above remind me of a time when I was ranting and ragging on the phone to my buddy who buys/sells foreclosures in Sacramento. My beef was about paying $210 to a guy for painting (using a special, thick industrial paint) a borderline antique, somewhat valuable, piece of machinery that I was fond of. The agreement was that he'd also use a particular special primer - I later noticed that he used no primer at all.  . So there I was, going on/on about this for quite a while, intermixing Q's about what my buddy thought he would do about this and about the shyster painter guy. Buddy listened quietly. I finally stopped...dead silence. Then he said... "Don, two days ago I threw $5,000 at a problem to make it go away...because it was just slowing me down." Is this primer deal a real biggie for you?" . Point being...you hopefully have the boat out of your life. . Best, . ps I was born/raised in that country. Good air, good people, good hunting/fishing.
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Bottom line for me is if I'm getting offers outside of an ebay auction I say, "if the price is right the first person to pay in full gets the item".
Eveybody is gung ho until it comes time to commit.
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Great story, Don. |
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