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Originally Posted by CountD
People do make mistakes, but if you put them out there and say that you have no idea what they are and here is the price, then I say you gotta sell them.
It takes next to nothing to research and if someone put them up here in Marketplace with a photo they would know in a day what they are worth and then could post accordingly. I guess it was lazy not to do this.
What are they worth? I have no idea. But it's smart to know what something is worth before you sell it and put a price on it. That was the sellers main problem here.
People make mistakes, and I've made mistakes, and I have posted stuff that was worth more, but I just sold it to get rid of it or to give it to someone who needed it. In this case unless it's hundred and hundreds of dollars I say sell.
We all gotta leave money on the table sometime.
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I think it depends on the scope of the mistake.
A $100 part that was sold for $50? Take your lumps.
If those valve covers are worth $1000 and you listed them for $50? Especially when acting as an agent for a friend? I don't think it is dishonest to pull them and relist for a more equitable price to both parties. Give first right of refusal to the initial buyer.
If you know you are effectively stealing a part from someone who doesn't know its true value, can you legitimately get your nose out of joint because the seller "reneged" on the "deal" once he realized his mistake after a flood of PMs?
Isn't that the same thing (on a smaller scale) as lowballing the old widow out of her dead husband's speedster in the barn?
This is supposed to be a community, and integrity should run both ways.
If the valve covers are worth a huge amount of money, the first buyer should have alerted the seller, and then offered a more reasonable price. He probably still could have gotten a "deal" versus the true market value -- and everyone would have been happy.