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Subject:Re: Fw: unethical sales
From:Aristotle Sagan
Date:Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:01:02 -0800

Sorry Marc,
If you are right here, CASH in hand with a grand, before anyone else says
I'll give you 1,750 bucks for it... then it should be yours.

But... even I, who has only sold a couple of cars using classifieds, have
been stood up by people "coming down with the money".

Nope, never again.

If the guy has an offer for 1750, first person to get him the CASH should
walk away with it. If you don't believe him, don't buy it.

I do agree he should have said "or best offer".

You expect too much to make him walk away from 750 bcks.

Wire him 2 grand and I'm sure it's yours.

tim in san jose

>From: Marc Perdue <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>
>Reply-To: Marc Perdue <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Fw: unethical sales
>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:09:12 -0500
>
>You're being called an "auctioneer" because you said the "asking price is
>$1000", you didn't say "or best offer".  Yet you're entertaining higher
>offers
>and having people "bid" the price up.  To maintain your ethical integrity,
>you
>should sell it to the first person that offered to pay you $1,000 or
>withdraw to
>offer the van for sale and re-list it as "$1,000 or best offer."
>
>Marc Perdue
>
>isdn128 wrote:
>
> > Are you calling me an ""auctioneer"" before or after you offered to
>match
> > any offer?   I keep my word, but yes it is true that many people have
> > offered more!
> >
> > Jim

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