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I can totally understand from a sellers point of view if they go for the first person that presents actual cash
I lost out on a house for the same reason
The number of times I’ve e-mailed pictures and answered potential buyers’ questions - only to have them go silent - has made me a tad cynical....
In the same way I won’t commit to buying something if I’m not ready to make immediate payment.
In many ways, so is time. However it is worth having an equal awareness that we all suffer from chronic GAS on here and therefore are likely to suffer varying degrees of buyer or seller remorse (I know I do).
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When I sold my R8 cheap a while back I had two buyers email me saying they'd have it, within five mins of listing.
One paid me within ten mins and one got a little disgruntled as he didn't get it...
Back in the day, the Classifieds was a useful add-on to the community that allowed people to buy/sell/trade as part of being in the community.
That's changed.
The seller in this instance isn't really a member of the community. He's a freeloader who happily uses the platform to sell stuff, but contributes nothing to any other aspect of the community, so - I would conclude - has little interest in the community or its (original) values.
In that world, cash is indeed king, and he satisfies his objectives in using the forum by selling stuff. A quick sale is (I'm assuming) what he wants.
So, he's not being underhand or unfair or any other negative - he's just using the forum in the way that he wants to and the rules allow him to, albeit in a way that's at odds with the expectations of some who've been here a while and are genuine members of the wider community. Different strokes for different folks.
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The above probably sounds more critical of him that he deserves - there's no rule here that says you *must* contribute to other sections and we freely allow people to freeload. It sounds more critical because my personal view (whether idealistic, naive or whatever) is that the community should be wider than the Classifieds alone, and because the freeloading approach doesn't sit comfortably with me.
As a buyer I always try to pay instantly or if I can’t then give a time frame to do so - eg I will pay tomorrow before 9am. I feel like if you’d done this you’d have grounds to complain if the seller had agreed to those terms but then sold it anyway.
Most people will honour their word but honestly until you’ve proved it to a person then they don’t have to believe you. If you sell enough gear someone will stand you up or pull out of a deal after you’ve waited... just because you know you’re not like that doesn’t mean the seller knows too