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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
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.
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.
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I think this is all on you, dude. If you wanted to secure the items, you should have showed up there with the cash and a truck. The guy was a bit remiss in not telling you the items are his to do with as he pleases until they belong to you, but as a buyer I assume that. When I want something off Kijiji I make sure to lock the guy down like that minute and I'll drop what I'm doing to meet him. First guy with the cash takes it. If you adopt my approach, you'll never ever ever ever have this problem again.