So, I don't know if this is the right place for this but...it's bugging me and I wouldn't mind an/some outside opinion(s).
I have an item listed for sale. It isn't a knife, and it isn't listed here I promise I'm not trying to stir up any drama. It is too much hassle to ship so I'm trying to sell it locally. When I went to bed last night I had a buyer lined up, an agreed upon price and time for the exchange. As of this morning they have decided they no longer want to pay the agreed upon price, but they still want the item at a lower price. Here's the thing; if the lower price was what we had agreed upon before, I would have been perfectly happy with it. I understand haggling and trying to save money, I get that, but I dislike negotiating in bad faith.
Just briefly about the item before I get to my question. My fiancée...dislikes it and in all honestly I'm pretty ambivalent to it. In the moment it seemed like a good idea, but the novelty wore off in like a day. It's been stored away for months. I originally listed it for roughly 13 times more than I paid for it. The original agreed upon price was 10 times what I paid. What they are offering now is like 8.3 times.
So, my question is this: am I a moron for passing up the money to stand on principle, or should I take the cash and be happy I made a profit while quietly seething about how the transaction was handled? Normally I'd stand on principle...but my fiancée thinks I should take the money (mostly I think she wants it out of the house, because she normally backs my standing on principle plays.).