What happened is laid out in post 1 of this thread. There is no "rosier picture".
I listed an item at $200 and apparently it is fairly rare to see them for sale. In fact, I could not find a sold one on Ebay. Apparently it is worth as much as $400. Yes, I did change to best offer and also raise the price.
I put this thread up because if it was so apparent about what I should have done it should be a rule.
The sale thread was closed because there were angry unreasonable people making unreasonble statements. As you can probabaly tell they are posting here now.
I will maintain my opinion that a seller has the right to accept and refuse any offer for any reason including price, shipping terms or because you think someone is a douche.
I am in total agreement with someone who said I would burn it before selling to some people in there.
As soon as two guys started saying I was first to say "I will take it" meant there was an agreement before I even read their PM I said in the back of my mind, oh this is how it works here. Neither of those guys were going to get that item period.
From there on I felt like I was standing up amongst a bunch of zombies holding up fresh meat.
I really think there is no need to dictate morality and ethics in the forum rules. You either possess those or you don't.
You put up a case for $200 that was worth maybe $250 - $300 in its condition. It was not like you unwittingly listed a Gus cue for $800.
When you had two people telling you "I'll Take It", like for instance me, then you had an ethical duty to work it out with them. Your op, prior to you editing it after the fact, said nothing about shipping so you added that you needed to collect shipping. I then, and once again pm'd you saying "I'll Take It" and this time provided you with my zip code for you to calculate shipping.
Btw, and worth mentioning, you are in southern Maine, I'm not far, in CT. After another az member saw the games you were playing on that thread, he contacted me and sold me his case for the $200 you were supposed to and the *cross country* shipping from San Diego is $28 via fedex.
Bottom line, you didn't do your due diligence in first establishing what your item was worth prior to listing it, though you weren't off by much, then you acted dishonorably for what, another $50?
And on top of it all, when many azers started calling BS on you, you started arguing with them pointing out how you work with lawyers and contract law this and that. It's an internet forum, bud, we don't need contract law lessons. Just conduct yourself with a little class, that's all.
Then, when you really had no good defense left you spun the outrageous story of how it actually wasn't your case after all, but rather it was a friends who was in financial trouble and that he needed heating oil for his house so you had a duty to get as much as you could. Good grief, man, do you take azers for a bunch of hayseeds?
What happened on the for sale forum was that you sold your reputation for about $50.
You can start as many new threads about it as you want but it won't change that fact.
Rules are simply guidelines; how we conduct ourselves is mostly to do with a moral compass that is inside us.
I know this was very petty in the scheme of things but I'm not a big fan of revisionist history.
best,
brian kc
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