A DEAL SURE AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE

1WildRT said

Mixed feelings on this subject... Back around 92-93 I shook on a deal as the seller... Gave the buyer "a few days" to get their financing sorted... Then had a person wanting to buy the car with cash in hand... Offered $250 more than the handshake deal.... But was wanting a deal today cause it was for the daughter who had to leave for college the next day.... I honored the handshake... And the "buyer" flaked...

From that day forward money in the hand is better than a handshake....

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A quick call to the buyer requesting a deposit is all it would have took to confirm if they were serious or not. If the buyer started flaking then....Bye-bye. JMHO

I can get a pretty good feel for a buyer. If the dude drives 5 hours, and I haven't mis-represented the article...chances are he's pretty serious. There were things the seller had to get in order before the transfer could take place...I assured him that finances were not an issue (I know, famous last words lol). Had he contacted me and advised of another offer, I would have sent him a small deposit verifying my commitment.....I would have expected him to honour our negotiated price.

BTW....I would suspect when the other dude offered him 2 grand more than our negotiated price...He would have returned my deposit forth with. LOL.