I was EXTREAMLY interested in this set of mint 10 spoke chrom directionals for my '97 Lincoln. So, this guy e-mails me, and tells me 600, and they are at my door. I get pumped and am waiting for everything to go right. I come home from a night out, and I look at my e-mail and he sold the wheels out from under me. Didn't tell me anyone else was interested so move quick with the transaction, but sold them right out from under me. I think its grimey and dirty, and if you wanted these wheels as bad as me you would be just as pissed. Am I wrong in this situation or is this other guy an idiot?

Well did you try to buy them on Ebay? Often times people selling on Ebay have something listed about how they reserve the right to end the auction early. If not, you may be out of luck. I hope you find the rims you are looking for though.

Pretty crummy thing to do, but hey, money talks.

From what you posted I read that you were interested, but were waiting for money to roll in. He gets a guy who is interested AND has the money to pay for it. Why should he wait to see if you are going to come up with the cash, or maybe make excuses for a few weeks, or maybe you find a different set and leave him twisting in the wind? He had a buyer and an 'interested guy'. Which would you choose? It sounds like you have never had someone come to look at something, express great interest and then blow you off (usually without any explanation at all).
He also let you know as soon as possible that they were actually sold instead of waiting for you to contact him. Sounds like a pretty stand up guy to me.

You are wrong in this case and even if he had told you there were other interested parties (if there even were at the time, perhaps he wrote to you and then 30 minutes later a guy called and said he was on the way with cash), it would have made no difference, you did not have the money at the time, or you would have bought them. Let's say he had 4 interested parties, he tells you that and you are going to assume he is blowing smoke so that you pay full asking price right away without dickering. It hurts to miss out on something you wanted, not saying it doesn't, but blaming the seller because your conditions at the time did not allow you to purchase them is silly. You will find another deal.

I had a similar thing happen with a car on eBay. I had a check coming, it was in the mail only a day or two away. Guy had too high a reserve on the car. I made him an offer. We e-mailed for 2 days and I made arrangements to pick the car up. Then he e-mails me the day the check came. I just sold the car. What can you do. The guy did call me he said he was worried that the check wouldn't get here.

Pissed me off, but everything worked out better in the end. Scott9050 got his car, and I got my 95.

Good luck getting a set of rims.

See though, it wasn't on ebay. It was just an e-mail he had sent me. I was waiting to figure out how he wanted to do the money issue, because I actually have the 600 at my disposal. He had dodged my e-mails for a couple of days, then finally telling me this.

you know I've had grown men ready to fight in my garage, arguing over who called first, who got there first, how much money they will pay, etc.. etc... and I have to step in and set it right, buying AND selling can be very stressful. If I were you I would move on and find some other wheels. there's a boatload of them around. good luck. :)

When it comes to sales, money first, because some people, unfortunately, are just big talkers.

This guy most likely sold them to one of his friend's or somebody that was closer to his area.

Keep looking for them... They are around...

Moving to anything goes......


This is'nt really VIII tech related.

so.

this being the first time i've been to this thread and not in reply to anyone's post: call the BBB. i do it all the time. and although unorthodox, i could run a businedd better than theese rednecks in SC.