customer etiquite

[bloke]

For about the fourth or fifth time this year, someone danced me up to the money day, and then weaseled.

This time it was my (former?) best friend, who had agreed to purchase one of our rental properties. Closing was supposed to be today.

[MN_TimTuba]

For about the fourth or fifth time this year, someone danced me up to the money day, and then weaseled.

This time it was my (former?) best friend, who had agreed to purchase one of our rental properties. Closing was supposed to be today.

Ouch, that hurts.
Wonder what he'd have said if you'd sold it out from under him?
You make a good case for non-refundable earnest money!
Better luck on the next sale - and on the next best friend!
Tim

[bort2.0]

He ain't getting a Christmas card next year...

[bloke]

... It’s the same type of behavior that four or five people have exhibited - over the last year - with $XXXX instruments: they’ve tied up instruments that I have here for sale for a couple of months, and then backed out on the very last day…the day they were supposed to pay....(??)

funny: The same “friend” was griping to me - about a month ago - about a “friend“ of his backing out (yep: on the day that was supposed to be the money day) on a tractor sale from him.

[Doc]

It's one thing if unexpected life $#!+ happens that derails/delays someone's plans - folks understand that those kinds of events happen, and they can be reasonably discussed and often worked out. But when people simply S#!+ the bed for no apparent reason and with no indication, either they decide last minute that they simply don't want to buy it, or they never were serious buyers in the first place, that's a big problem. That's a PPC Operation - People of Pathetic Character.

[bloke]

They ended up buying it after all, and with no concessions.

...but is "brinkmanship" a technique that you use against your close friends...or (more appropriately) against your worst enemies...??

[tofu]

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[sdloveless]

People are nuts. Have a friend who has a large very nice single location pet store - no animal sales - but does run an adopt operation for rescue dogs & cats via the store and they make no money on that. Wealthy area - a woman calls up looking for a specific expensive large dog enclosure. They tell her yes they have one in the box. She rolls up in a big Mercedes and says she needs to see it assembled. Half hour later 2 employees have it all set up. She looks it over and then in front of the owner no less - pulls out her smart phone and orders it online. She didn't bat an eyelash - my pal with jaw dropped asks why - and she says it was $5 cheaper (on a $250 item) with free shipping. She told him she just wanted to see it before ordering. These people are clueless. But they will still show up and ask the guy to sponsor their kids soccer team. Good luck getting Chewy to do that.

I dealt with a similar situation once. A lady came in with a couple small children and asked for help picking out the correct size bicycles for them. I spent about 20 minutes with them, making saddle height adjustments, explaining bike fit for growing children, etc. After all that she said, very cheerily, "Thanks! Now I know what sizes to get at Wal-Mart!" We weren't strangers to being show-roomed by jerkbags, but I truly believe this particular woman really didn't understand what she was doing. Like we were a bicycle library or something.