Who can slighty best these WHOLESALE PRICES?? ALL CARDS SOLD!

[wilkiebaby11]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Let's play WHAT IF - What if the following morning Craig decides he doesn't want the card? What am I gonna do, force him to send me the money?? Say "You agreed to the deal - you have to pay!!!"....of course not....I wouldn't have a leg to stand on. All the naysayers really need to understand both sides of the fence here.

I feel that this is part of the risk of being the seller and it's definitely going to happen. However, you should not have agreed to the terms of the deal if you weren't going to follow them. That's the point I am trying to make. You agreed to terms, but without communicating, you had clauses in your agreement that were not explained.

It's like going to the car dealership and signing a paper to buy a car the next day. The dealership cannot sell the car to anyone else, but the buyer has the option to back out. It's an AGREEMENT made. It's all just part of the business.

Once more, you had THREE buyers; CParker, eBayer, and ASC (which is as good as money in hand). So to say that you were afraid of not getting your money seems a bit exaggerated.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by wilkiebaby11

It's like going to the car dealership and signing a paper to buy a car the next day. The dealership cannot sell the car to anyone else, but the buyer has the option to back out. It's an AGREEMENT made. It's all just part of the business.

That isn't correct. Until the deal is funded, every dealership I know (and I know many, I used to own a company called Dealer Advertising Solutions, LLC) will take the money from the first customer that comes up with it, agreement or not.

If you want to see this for yourself, walk into a dealerhsip, yank the salesman's chain for a while and then tell him you'll be back tomorrow to buy a certain car. When you get home, look on the dealership's website and see if that card is still listed or if they removed it in order to hold it for you. I guarantee that it will still be listed. Dealerships DO NOT remove their cars from website inventory until the deal is funded.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

Dealerships DO NOT remove their cars from website inventory until the deal is funded.

And to add to that, sometimes dealerships will leave cars on their inventory website even after the car is sold to generate more leads (especially if it's a hot car). Customer comes in looking for that car, car was sold three weeks ago and the salesman (well, any good salesman) flips them to something else.

[wilkiebaby11]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

That isn't correct. Until the deal is funded, every dealership I know (and I know many, I used to own a company called Dealer Advertising Solutions, LLC) will take the money from the first customer that comes up with it, agreement or not.

If you want to see this for yourself, walk into a dealerhsip, yank the salesman's chain for a while and then tell him you'll be back tomorrow to buy a certain car. When you get home, look on the dealership's website and see if that card is still listed or if they removed it in order to hold it for you. I guarantee that it will still be listed. Dealerships DO NOT remove their cars from website inventory until the deal is funded.

Maybe my analogy was bad. I'll accept that. I just always assumed that when I left my $500 check to 'hold' the car til the next morning, that that was an agreement that it wasn't going to be sold to anyone else until I came back on the agreed time. Maybe I shouldn't make uncommunicated inferences either...

I've said all I can say for this thread. In the end, I don't like the sales tactic that an agreement can be breached if money is not exchanged ASAP.

Buyer does have an opportunity to renege on his offer, and that would suck for the seller (what Bob was afraid of). But in the same case, the seller can renege the card and leave the buyer without a card (poor Craig). But as the seller, I feel as if they/we/it/whomever assumes those risks, not the buyer.