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Matt, I will apologize first to you and Fred for any perceived personal offense, that is not what I want to do.
But let's be clear and factual here about assumptions and morality.
The only way we know about Helios is the seller is a fellow pelican poster here and exposed him. Up until the time he was exposed by Rbarton, he was a honest man as shown by numerous dealings around here. If Rbarton, the seller, was not a poster here Helios would still be that cool guy selling some good wheels he got a deal on.
Fred's seller is not a poster here, we only know what Fred told us."If Fred showed up, told some suck up story about how he had this exact car 40 years ago and had always regretted selling it and is so excited to find another to tinker on and drive in his retirement, etc etc" This whole thing you typed is an assumption. I also assume that Fred is a good guy but I am not going to assume that 356 seller was a bad guy, I do not assume to know what happened. Reneging on a deal is a bad low life thing to do, but I really do not know or anyone else here but Fred the circumstances about that deal.
I do not want to hammer Fred, that is not my intent, but to question how quickly many here pass judgment of moral standing on flipping, etc. when they do not know the facts.
I have no problem with a honest flip and flipper, I have been on both sides of a flip.
Helios was exposed as a dishonest flipper.
We can only assume the seller in Fred's case was dishonest. We know Fred was flipping this 356, We also know he got a below market price by all the site unseen offers here. We do not know what Fred said to the seller to arrive at this below market price.
Just the facts.
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