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Originally Posted by Canehdianman
Its Kijiji man, until you've paid it isn't yours.
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This is incorrect. I made an offer - 300 delivered. He made a counter offer - 250, with me arranging for the items to be picked up. I accepted. That's a legally binding contract. He breached it by selling them to someone else.
Now, it's not worth doing anything about that, because my damages are minimal. However, I could technically sue him. People are really casual with contracting on Kijiji; I was very close to sending a statement of claim to the movers I booked who didn't show up just to make the point that you can't conduct yourself like that without consequences.
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Originally Posted by btimbit
Never really understood this mindset. Not an excuse for manners to go out the window, once you reach a deal that person usually makes arrangements to have it done, like 19Yzerman19's example of booking a truck to pick it up.
I've had stuff sold out from under me before, anywhere from car dealerships to morons on kijiji. It's always a dick move. What if he had to pay penalties now for cancelling the delivery service?
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Exactly. In this case it wasn't that bad, I just called the moving guys and told them I had to cancel. But what if I'd rented a u-haul or something? I'd be out the cost of the rental. I'd moved a bunch of stuff in preparation for having those things into my living room, and I just had knee surgery a couple of weeks ago so moving things around is not easy. So it was directly inconvenient.
More than that, though, it's just an ####### thing to do. A deal is a deal. If you don't want to commit to a deal, say so - i.e., "first person to put cash in my hand gets it". I've done that before, if you're up front about your terms it's fine. Just don't go back on your word.