I will say I think it's shitty. He was good in refunding for sure, but once you decide to make a deal, and back out, that's going back on your word so to speak. It is a binding contract by the way as well, but that for all intents and purposes here is trivial. It’s really an honor/reputation thing all in all. I think Mike, from what I’ve seen has favorable sales.

You should have your ducks in line before putting something up. If you make a deal, you should follow through, completely agree there. I did this once with a machine, deciding I didn't want to sell it to someone that was coming to get it, I made a haste decision. I went to them though and told them my dilemma, said I would honor the deal still, and if by chance they weren’t 100% on it, I would like to keep. I did not present it either in a way that guilted them into it, and said I would totally understand with no hard feelings whatsoever if you still wanted to go ahead.

Looks like I’m in the minority, but I think if you agree to something, barring it being legitimately lost or destroyed, you should honor. Of course it sounds more noble that a machine may be being saved as a result, but that doesn’t change the agreement aspect of the deal.

I think that is awesome of you Muscle_cars_only! I've fired off some free parts as well to people, and have received the same in return.

I get your good intention, but I think it is important to know the bad/semi bad/issues, as this may help others. Again, it appears the seller is for the most part good, but say on another note a really bad seller that does this all the time. If no one raises a stink, this continues to go on, and as a community, this is the type of thing where getting info out there can to good for us all. This was about as harmless of an issue that is seen, as in he got his money back right away, and was really just out "the deal", but still, I think your rep should be on the line for debate if things do go sideways, and we should hear, as the public, that again may get involved with that person in the future.

Maybe the initial response from the buyer was heated a little, whatever, it didn't get ugly, resulted in a good ending for him, and well, "information" about someone else if there were to be other problems, which doesn't look like it should be an issue.