What's your position on a dick move?

UseitorLoseit

UseitorLoseit

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I'll post it here to get a feel for the forums opinion on the matter.
This is sequence of events:

Multiple knives are posted for sale in a single post and the pictures "will be posted soon" but descriptions are posted for each knife.

Guy 1 states that he "will take #1" of the posted knives.
I state that I "will take #3" of the posted knives.

I then PM for payment info.

Check back a few min later only to find that Guy 1 edited his post to state that he wants #3 after the pics have been posted.

OP decides to give Guy 1 his choice of #3 because he posted first.

So do I just post "I'll take #x" from now on and edit my post accordingly?
 
Ignore the person selling in the future because if they are willing to make arbitrary changes to deals, what other change are they willing to make at your expense?
 
The seller is a person of stature in this community. It seems to me that Guy 1 knew what he was doing. He has minimal feedback and I'm wondering if it's a new account for someone that has been previously banned.
 
Put both on ignore and move on. There are enough people with integrity to deal with that there's no reason to waste your time with somebody that you have any questions about at all.
 
It is up to a seller who to sell to. It says so right in the exchange rules. Simply stating you will take a knife doesn't mean that the seller is bound to sell the knife to you.

While it does sound like you got the crap end of the stick, by the rules, the seller was within his rights.

That being said, I would put them both on the ignore list and not have to deal with them again.
 
I'm not taking issue with the seller. I agree that it's the sellers right to do as they please. My issue is with Guy 1. Is this an action that should he brought to a mods attention?
 
I agree it's a dick move. I'd love to know who it was so as not to deal with them.

If I were you, what'd I'd do is if I was ever in a thread with them in in a similar situation (as unlikely as that is) would be to quote their post for posterity. The seller could then sort it out with the mods who can see edits.
 
Oh, I still see this as essentially the same thing unless the seller didn't know he claimed the original knife and is only going by time stamp of the post and stated that he would only do that and not waver from time stamps.

They are all human, and can change their minds freely. It is even possible that your posting about the knife put some pressure on him and made him "want the forbidden fruit" and caused him to change his mind.

I still think that I would remember the name and choose not to deal with them in the future.
The one bad thing about the new ignore system is that, if he was already ignored, you wouldn't have known that he posted, just that the knife sold to someone else with no warning nor explanation.

Eta: even if it was brought to the mods attention, what could they say? That he can't change his mind or edit his post? That he is now contractually obligated to purchase the originally stated knife?

Yes, it sucks, but I think that is where it lands.

Though I do have to say that a buyer that wants to try to push me into selling to him by using moderators, isn't a pleasant sales experience.
This doesn't make me want to deal with anyone involved (unfortunately).
 
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Did you pm the seller letting him know what happened? Because you didn't say anything in the thread.
Also it's possible the other poster was editing his post as you posted and never saw it before hand.
 
Yeah that sucks but when someone edits a post it adds the "Last Edited date/time" in the lower right hand corner. You can see an example of this in NJBillK's post above. I don't see that in Guy 1's "I'll take it" post. Is it possible you read it wrong to begin with?

ETA: Looks like something that happened in the flurry of the moment. Don't dwell on it, life's too short. Keep hunting man.

ETA2: I've edited this post twice now, 2x ETA and it didn't add what I described above so I don't know.
 
A-MAC said:
Yeah that sucks but when someone edits a post it adds the "Last Edited date/time" in the lower right hand corner. You can see an example of this in NJBillK's post above. I don't see that in Guy 1's "I'll take it" post. Is it possible you read it wrong to begin with?

ETA: Looks like something that happened in the flurry of the moment. Don't dwell on it, life's too short. Keep hunting man.

ETA2: I've edited this post twice now, 2x ETA and it didn't add what I described above so I don't know.
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There is a period of time shortly after your original post where an edit date and time stamp is not added if you go make changes.

Since that's the case here, absent any signs of malice, I'm inclined to believe that the seller didn't see the edit made and/or the first buyer did not see the second part before he made his edit.
 
I'm not upset about who got what in this case. My concern is that this might continue to happen in future sales posts. I wonder how long the gap for editing without an updated time stamp is?
 
UseitorLoseit said:
I'm not upset about who got what in this case. My concern is that this might continue to happen in future sales posts. I wonder how long the gap for editing without an updated time stamp is?
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I'm not sure what that is, that's a good question. I suspect the purpose of it is to allow people to make minor changes or fix things in a post that they see right when they post it, if that makes sense. I kind of like this feature because sometimes I see a dumb spelling error or a BBCode error that I want to fix.
 
Playing a bit of devils advocate, but I went and looked at that thread just now and it doesn't (for me) show that the first guy edited his post. On my end it looks like he came in 1 minute ahead of you and the post doesn't say edited.
Again, I am not sure if posts will say "edited" for all members or just the OP.
I am not casting any blame or judgements either way.

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