[Dion]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

That sounds like a commitment to buy, but not an actual purchase. Not only should you have gone over to give him the money, but also to look at the damn stuff too. How was this going to go down? Delivery company picks up stuff, delivers it to your house. Upon satisfactory inspection, you would EFT the money to him? At what point was this guy going to get his money or have the purchase completed?

Don't blame the guy one bit. When buying ANYTHING used and it's a good deal, you buy it immediately on the spot or risk someone else swooping in and taking it. Buying is not asking someone to put it on hold. Deposits don't do crap either. Until enough money has transferred hands to cover 100% of that purchase price, I'd be worried about losing either my partial payment and/or the item I want. Hell, I have even had people return the full purchase price that I gave in advance because I couldn't pick it up within 2 days, but someone else could. Have you not purchased anything used before? Always go by "First come first served, as-is where-is"

Binding contract? LOL, good luck suing the guy. You have ZERO damages, nothing out of pocket unless you paid a deposit for the delivery guys.

The seller was a jackass for what he did. There was a verbal agreement (not legaly binding) made on the sale and he should have honoured it.