[creator8]

I'm the seller who a couple of you will now choose to ignore. BOO HOO!

The way it went down is I obviously had a flood of PMs of "I'll buy", "I'll buy" at asking price due to my complete ignorance. One guy offered more--and to be clear it was nowhere close to the $950 mentioned.

I put him to the top of the list but he faltered on payment--wanted more pics including part number that I didn't have to hand. Not wanting to waste time, someone on the other site where I posted this had also matched that number and I countered with him to add something unique he was offering that I wanted. He agreed and payed in minutes.

Minutes after he payed I had an offer for local pickup for a couple of hundred bucks more than I'd already accepted. Had I been the no-morals-capitalist-pig I'm being made out to be I'm sure I could have come up with a story about wheels being stolen last night or something and refunded the actual buyer's Paypal, and taken the higher offer and not hassled w/ shipping--but I didn't.

I also had another posting with HREs for $500 at the same time. Those were obviously a good deal too as I had a bunch of interest. I sold them to the first PMer for asking price w/ a local pickup.

Perhaps I should have gone back to Kaefer as first PMer w/ a counter that I had $xxx on the table but I felt more obligated to the guy who had the eggs to step up on what was obviously going to be a good deal. I actually felt bad that I didn't sell to him in the end.

Given that the market price on a 15x8 Fuchs, I now have found out, is $450 per and without tires, let alone a whole set of wheels, I'd say I'm the guy out on this deal so I don't know what all the *****ing is about. To be clear I'm cool w/ the deal I got, but I'm little mystified by being made out to be the bad guy here. I also appreciate the posting by Noah.

Bottom line is this is a free market. Its up to the seller who's money he's going to take in the end. If all offers are equal I'll take the first guy in line provided he's a bona fide buyer. But if someone really wants something and is prepared to pay more and makes that offer, how's it fair to stop the seller from making the deal or put pressure on him not to. This ain't N. Korea!