OT.What about unhappy ebay buyers?, Tell me if this is fair Options

[james2]

So, a friend of mine had a 56 chevy 2 door post he sold on Ebay. car was pretty solid, a little rust, no motor or tranny.

So the car sells for$3250.00, a little low if you check the price of the cars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

The buyer sends his friend to look at the car and pick it up. The guy crawls over and under the car inspecting it, pays and hauls it off.

Couple days later the high bidder calls and says he is not happy with the car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

My friend offers to repurchase the car, and is happy to do so because he had a local buyer offer more money anyway.

The High bidder doesn't want to return the car, but wants part of his money back. Or if he does return the car, he wants an additional $1000 for trailering it both ways.

My friend ask me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) and i said no way! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)

He is afraid of bad feedback. I told him to take the bad feedback and see if ebay will take it off or just live with it.

What would you do?

[bigkensteele]

Reminds me of an experience of my own. I met a local guy who seemed to be a 914 guru. I had two cars at the time and only wanted one, so I stripped everthing that I thought I might want or need off the 76, which was still a very solid tub (compared to what I have seen resurrected here). I GAVE it to the guy as a good faith gesture in hopes that I could learn from him and perhaps make some 914 connections in the area and have a part resource, since the guy has a huge garage full of parts.

A few months later, he found out that we were selling my wife's old Toyota. He thought that it would be a great car for his daughter and new husband to buy. I told him that I don't like to sell anything to people I know, but he insisted. I was not willing to drop the price to his satisfaction, but his daughter liked it for the money, so they bought it AFTER having it inspected by the local Midas shop.

About a month later, this guy (not his daughter) calls me and wants me to give him $600 because the alternator went out and the rear brakes needed to be replaced. I reminded him that it was a used car, which carries no warranty. I also reminded him that he had it inspected, and then I reminded him that I had given him a car with a clean title that he went on to rebuild. He hung up on me.

Not sure if he is on this board, but I know that a couple of his acquaintances are.

Long story short - be fair with people and expect the same, but don't let yourself by victimized by assholes with more nerves than class. If someone agrees to the terms of the sale of a used piece of merchandise - any used piece of merchandise, then they should know what they are getting into. If they can't reasonably determine what they are getting into, then they have no business bidding on it, and the market will dictate what it should go for.