[ckelly78z]

Just on Wednesday, I finally sat down at my desk 5 minutes before leaving work, and was trolling through the Craigslist listings. I came across a 2014 Honda Civic with "rearend damage", 66,000 miles for $2500 about 5 miles away. I instantly texted the owner, and left work and went to look at it. The car is in very good shape with only the rear bumper cover damaged and a small lower corner of the driver's side rear fender bent in (tail lights/trunk all in good shape). The owner's wife was there, and showed me the car. I offered to put some earnest money down until I could get to the bank, and bring back cash the same day. She calls her husband, who is still at work, and he says that he pulled the add off craigslist after so much activity, and that is MIL has first dibs on the car.

WTF, why get everyone exited about a good deal, and then yank the add, and sell to family ?
The wife said it would be $6000 to fix the car, and these people were the type to not accept anything but perfect, so hopefully the MIL will say $2500 + $6000 is too much for the car, and I can still get this car for my 18 year old son going to college in a few months.....who quite honestly could fix it pretty well himself and have an almost new car, for cheap money.