Date:         Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:48:14 -0800
Reply-To:     radish150 <radish150@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         radish150 <radish150@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      1500$ 800$ vanagon.
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>  I found out that I could get it towed for
> $300 so I called him back to see if he would go $700 so I would have $1000
> total invested.  He said he would think about it and to call him in the
> morning.  I called him the next day and he agreed to the $700, and I
> immediately sent him the money via priority mail envelope.  However
> yesterday, after he got the money for the van, he emails me and tells me that
> he has gotten a few other offers and that I either need to double the amount
> of money I had already sent him, or he would sell the van to someone else.  I
> told him that this is not the way I do business.  We made a deal which I
> upheld my end on and now he has decided to back out for no other reason
> except selfish greed.  When you do a dirty trick to someone like this, I
> think it is only fair to warn other people against this person (who knows
> what else they are being dishonest about as far as the condition of the
> vehicle, etc).  I am not saying that the van is not worth more, or that
> someone else wouldn't pay more for it, etc, but HE was the one that set the
> price of $800 initially and then agreed to the $700 (I didn't low ball him,
> he low balled himself).



Ken, I know how you feel. Once on the 928 Porsche list a non running early euro came up on the mailing list for 3000$, I wanted it. A fellow list member volunteered to act as a liaison for
shipping in exchange for a set of polished alloys (pretty generous on my part actually). Well I shipped him the money via Western union, which he promptly shipped back to me. Seems he'd seen the
car and decided to buy it himself. It still makes my blood boil. When it comes down to the wire, many people just have no class at all, sorry you found one of them.

mark...