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Re: Seller refused sale because I wanted to use a cashiers check
Good grief, I'm not even going to read the rest of these replies as some of them are jumping all over me for no reason. I never said he owed me anything. But it's just common courtesy to sell it to the first person who offers to buy it. I didn't even haggle with him, I was gonna pay his asking price! And it's common courtesy to respect the time and gas that I'd already invested. And common courtesy to honor a verbal agreement! What part don't you understand? He didn't have a higher offer, just someone else coming to look at it. According to him anyway; for all I knew he was trying to scare me into offering more. Whatever. I regret ever joining. I was reading the Class C FAQ and read the thread about cashier check scams and I innocently thought I was making the point that scammers have ruined it for honest people. But apparently I'm just a b*tch on my high horse so I'll just go away and leave you snotty people to yourselves.556Views0likes0CommentsRe: Seller refused sale because I wanted to use a cashiers check
avan wrote: Before getting on your high horse OP, you should know that a Cashiers Check is not money, is not cash. It is just an institutional promise to pay (ck) rather than a personal promise to pay (ck) and both can be phony as h... Cash is cash. Guessing seller advertised it for sale for "$xxxx.xx" and not for "a check of $xxxx.xx". Then it sounds like he reiterated his terms for cash during the phone call with you and you decided that rather than getting the cash from the CU and bringing it to the seller, you'd just join up here and rant. Sorry. Seller has the right to ask whatever terms he wants and you have the right to accept or not. As a seller, I would never do a private party sale to an individual or to a company, for paper promises. Cash only or a wire transfer to my bank with my bank confirming to me that it is deposited to my account. Buyer doesn't like those terms = take a hike. I'm not on a high horse. Guess you didn't read where I explained that my CU wouldn't give me cash; they would only do a cashier's check. And you really truly need to work on your reading comprehension because it wasnt a phone call. We met in person and he agreed to the CC. Then THE NEXT DAY he emailed that he wouldn't take it and before I could even reply to his email to try to work it out, he emailed again saying he was going to show it to someone else and sell it to them if they had cash DESPITE the verbal agreement we had and (half-assed) bill of sale he had made out to me. It was just a sh*tty way to treat me after I'd driven so far to look at it. You'd be pissed too.554Views0likes0CommentsRe: Seller refused sale because I wanted to use a cashiers check
GordonThree wrote: Welcome to the forums. Could be seller got a better price from his new buyer. Could be seller wanted cash so he didn't have to share with the government or an ex-wife. Might even be he was running the scam, maybe a problem with the title. Giving cash would be easy for him to disappear. I do sorta feel like I dodged a bullet. Everything happens for a reason, right?312Views0likes0CommentsRe: Seller refused sale because I wanted to use a cashiers check
ScottG wrote: I've heard that a cashier's check can be phonied up these days. I had a Toyota dealership basically tell me the same thing so they accompanied me to our bank. I probably would not accept one either at this point. I would have suggested we both go to your CU rather than being jerk. Exactly. I would have been happy for him to go with me to the CU. He took the post down a day or two later but then it popped up again about a week later. I hope he never sells it, lol.312Views0likes0CommentsSeller refused sale because I wanted to use a cashiers check
Ok, I guess I'm just wanting to rant for a minute here. Oh yeah, new member here, hello everybody! I'm in the process of looking to buy my first RV ever. I found one on Craigslist in a town about 90 minutes away. Seller insisted on meeting in the evening, after 5pm. I drove all the way down there, inspected it, liked what I saw, told him I wanted to buy it. Explained that I'd have to wait for the bank to open the next day - sorry, dude, I don't just walk around with $6k in my pocket, and you can't withdraw that much from an ATM in one day. I think $5k is the limit? But I digress. My bank (credit union, actually) had pre-approved me for a personal loan which was how I was planning to pay for it, but they didn't want to just disburse the funds to my account, they wanted to know what it was being spent on. They wanted an invoice or something to show where the money was going, and then they would make out a cashier's check directly to the seller. I don't know the reason for this policy but it is what it is. They made me do the same thing when I bought a storage building. It's a PITA but only for me, not the seller. Anyway, long story short, I asked the seller if he could make out a bill of sale - UNSIGNED, so he wasn't committing to anything - which he sorta did, he scratched out the year and model and sale price on a scrap of paper. Not exactly a bill of sale but whatever. Emailed him the next morning to let him know I was going to the credit union that morning to get the cashier's check, and he wrote back to say that he wouldn't accept a CC because it was a scam. Sigh. I wasn't wiring him anything. I wasn't using a "courier". I wasn't asking him to wire me anything back. I wasn't asking for his bank account info. I was using the local frikkin credit union. I literally would have taken the guy with me to the credit union to meet the loan officer but before I could suggest that, he writes to tell me that someone else is coming that day to look at it and if they had cash he was going to sell it to them. This, despite me driving NINETY minutes (one way!) to meet him the day before and telling him I wanted it. Grrr! I emailed back that he was a *bleep* for reneging on our verbal agreement and that I wouldn't buy from him at this point even if the other person didn't want it. Like I said, just venting here. These cashier check con artists have ruined it for everybody.8.1KViews0likes43Comments
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