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I PM'ed her about an item she was selling. Made an offer and said "if you will do such and such price I will take the item NO MATTER WHAT." Lisantica then sent me a message saying "I should not turn down an offer, I'll sell it for that price." I then went to practice and when I check in to my private messages on my smartphone when I had a break, she wrote me another message saying she sold it on another forum because I didnt reply quick enough. Maybe an hour and a half went by.

To me that is BS, I feel the deal was made and Lisantica broke it. When I expressed my feelings she wrote a message or 2 back then ignored me.
 
It certainly sounds like you never confirmed that you would take the item and as such there was no deal.
She was then entitled to sell it to another party.

No money was exchanged and no goods were sent.

There was no deal to go "good,bad or ugly" and as such you should not have opened this thread........move on........
 
I do not see how she did anything wrong unless there was 100% commitment by both parties and I do not see that from the description so far.

You also should have never brought the subject up in her for sale thread. If the decision was mine to make there I would have infracted you.

From what I see she got a firm commitment from someone before you made firm one. Leaving a seller hanging for more than a few minutes? They should have full right to pursue other deals.
 
If I told someone I'd sell them something for one price, then sell it to someone else that was waving cash in my face, I'd feel like a jerk. Maybe a little less of a jerk if the original purchaser was trying to low-ball me, but still a jerk.

I did that with a motorcycle when I was in the AF, one guy said he'd buy it, then a buddy of mine showed up waving hundred dollar bills and I still feel bad about it.

If I'm the seller and I don't hear from you in a couple of days, I figure you're either trying to figure out it you can get the item for cheaper or are no longer interested. A couple or three hours, maybe not so much.
 
Positive experiences aside, if you solicit offers to buy, get an offer to buy at a given price, and reply "I'll sell it for that price," you have accepted that offer to buy. There is a contract of sale. Period. This is not even close.
 
GBU has turned into a G-rated version of W&C over the last couple years, people complaining about deals that never happened, hurt feelings, and broken dreams.
 
It's easy really. If you say you will take it pay up. It is her knife she can sell it to whom ever she wants. I've been burned too many times to have much sympathy for the op.
 
Thomas it takes less than 5 minutes to lo onto PayPal and send money, I just did it a couple of hours ago. If he was running late to practice he could have sent her an email making arrangements to pay. You don't sell on the exchange so you don't know what it has been like lately.
 
grybsh7 said:
Thomas it takes less than 5 minutes to lo onto PayPal and send money, I just did it a couple of hours ago. If he was running late to practice he could have sent her an email making arrangements to pay. You don't sell on the exchange so you don't know what it has been like lately.
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No, I sure don't. And I typically pay in well-under ten minutes because I figure that's the right thing to do.

If one is worried about speed of payment, one specifies: "I accept your offer if payment is made in x minutes." That's legit. Those are not the facts according to anyone.

Absent specific terms, the law supplies a standard of reasonableness. If it's two businesses, "commercial reasonableness."

It seems important that people understand how the law looks at contracts - in all 50 states.

I personally don't find the law unreasonable here.

What if it was.

S: "Knife x for sale at $130.00."
B: "I offer $120.00 for the knife."
S: "I accept your offer of $120.00."
B: "Sorry, I just found it for $110.00."

There, the seller is being screwed, and I'll bet it happens, right? Stinks, yes? You likely take a deep breath, and march on. Probably the only practical solution. But it still stinks.

Sauce for the goose. A contract is a contract. Seller's remorse is not more legal -- or respectable -- than buyer's remorse.

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(Change the facts, you change the result.)
 
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