Fuckin' Seattle!
Had arranged to buy a used car from someone in Seattle. Based solely on ad photos and a phone conversation. During the conversation, seller offered a $2000 discount off his asking price, and stated that he already had a scheduled maintenance appointment in Seattle to have a recall repair done. If i was willing to wait, he would get that taken care of. (scheduled for later this week.)
Bastard just sold it. "buyer is going to pay ($1000 more than our agreed, $1000 less than his original asking) to take it today without the recall work done.
"i had it listed for over a month with no bites, then you called last week, and this other buyer todayβ¦"
My final reply may have been overly snarky:
"Just to let you know, i was willing to pay your original asking price of $(1000 more than what he admitted he just sold it for) and deal with recall myself. And if you had contacted me a little earlier today, i could have made it up there today. But hey, "easy way out"β¦ good luck selling, because if it falls through, i'm no longer interested in dealing with you."
I hope it falls through and he has to accept even less than our agreement from the next buyer, you slimy Seattle bastard.
Annoyingly, in the week between us reaching the agreement to buy and today, the one local one that I was also interested in (more miles, more money) sold⦠:-(