Re: Moral question

Hank wrote:
Suppose you had been negotiating a price for a vehicle
you were selling with a stranger via email. The potential
buyer lives over a thousand miles away and says he's
ready to fly here and pick it up if we agree on a price.
Then suppose eventually you send an email to this person
stating that you'd sell him the vehicle for $18,500. Now
suppose later that day, someone calls you one the phone, is
very interested in your vehicle, offers you $19,500, and
wants to drive up to take a look. Do you wait to see if the first buyer is for real and follows
through, or do you offer to sell the vehicle to the second
buyer?


Phone/e-mail Mr.$18.5k and let him know someone else is coming down to look at it so he'd better get his ass on the plane NOW as you will be selling to the first person who comes up with the cash.

When I was looking at my Aprilia, there were three others 'looking' as well.....one guy needed to sell his Ducati first, the other was trying to beat him down in price, the third guy couldn't get any money until the Saturday.......so I turned up on the Wednesday with the folding stuff and rode home. First in, first served...
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