Quoted from jalpert:In a cash transaction, the deal is done when money switches hands. In an ideal world you'd have a point, but I have a feeling you haven't been at this very long. If you had, your expectations would be a lot lower.
If you can't pick the game up right away, offer a PayPal deposit. I've been screwed out of games I've paid for in full before, but it takes a super special piece of crap to screw you once the game is technically yours.Also, keep in mind, for every buyer that has had a game sold out from under them, there is a seller that lost potential buyers as the guy who swore he'd show up to buy it is not picking up the phone all of a sudden.
Quoted from jhanley:No I havent been doing this for very long. All I can compare it to is just yesterday I sold my jetski to a guy for $900. Hes picking it up today but if someone offered me $1200 before he picked it up I would never sell it from under him because I am a man of my word.Something that is getting rarer these days.
Wanna know why this kind of thing is happening more often these days?
A bad economy, and people who WILL break their word for several hundred dollars
more in profit.
For some people their "word" doesn't put groceries on the dinner table,
but the extra dollars in profit will.
That's how they can easily rationalize their decision
to break a deal with one person and start another deal with someone that's willing to pay
them more for their pin.
I definitely don't approve of or endorse this kind of deal breaking, but I do understand
how people could choose to do it when money is involved.
