Screwed over

[johnthomas]

My son posted his AR last week, a guy from Santa Cruz said he would take it for the asking price, 1300 dollars. My son got several PM's asking to accept their higher offers. Bottom line, and proud to say, he honored the deal he made and everything went off without a hitch. Some of you may say there is a one letter difference between champ and chump, but in reality, the difference is honorable or dishonorable. I noticed the past few month, more and more folks here aren't in this forum for anything more than making a buck.

[foxracer72]

I'm a business owner and if I or someone else in my company mark a wrong price we honer it. Bad business on you part 100%

[moneysolutions]

So your employee made a mistake, and you punish the consumer? The right thing to do is sell the gun at the price YOUR COMPANY listed. If that's 50% of your cost, its your problem. Doing the right thing with some integrity will pay off in the long run.

What happens in a retail store if you mismark an item? Guess what, you are obligated to sell it for that price.

Nobody forced you to be in the gun business, and this is part of being the owner, you get to eat mistakes your employees make. If you can't afford to swallow a few bucks for a mistake YOU made, then it sounds like your ship is already sunk.

[loophole]

I fail to see why you even posted in this thread if your mind is already made up. It's clear to all who have read this thread how you choose to run your business. It will be up to them and only them to decide if they want to become a customer of yours.

Your court cases as examples are sporadic at best. If I got your 16 year old daughter pregnant, would you accept an "I made a mistake" excuse, and let me off the hook? I doubt it. And I know the courts wouldn't.

That's the wonders of free enterprise, however. You aren't forced to sell to anyone, and no one is forced to buy from you. The whole thing hinges on service and strong business ethics.

Good luck.

[adonis]

One, your analogy is silly, a bid would have been placed prior to a contract being signed, so something of that magnitude couldn't occur. It's a laughable grasp at straws.

In this case, you wrote the contract and put it out for anyone to accept, so you should hold up your end of the deal. Judging that another dealer has the same item for a mere $40 more tells me this shouldn't be a bank breaking good faith follow through.

I can guarantee one thing, anyone who reads this thread won't send a single dollar in your direction. That, I'm sure will cost you much more than the $40.

Continuing to defend a losing position only makes you look like someone with no integrity and further reinforces that I wouldn't want to do business with your company. So, congratulations on turning one bad sale into a long list of non-sales, and that, is definitely not smart business.

[moneysolutions]

So WHAT ARE YOU/DID you OFFER to Robert/Johnnyringo to "MAKE IT RIGHT"???
Or is he In fact SCREWED BY YOUR "mistake"...(which we all see as a sort of "price gouging" for you by selling it to someone for more $$$)

[loophole]

I have a new shovel I'll sell you for $10.

At the rate you're digging the hole you're in, you're going to need it pretty quick.

[adonis]

No, the analogy is she had the candybar with a pricetag for $0.50, and told him to F-off and leave the store if he didn't want to pay a price which was different than what was printed on the item.

It has nothing to do with making change.

[Deuce.]

Thanks for posting in this thread, it's always nice to know what vendors to avoid.

[EssDee]

In MY way of thinking I would of given the cashier BACK the $10 and told her to be careful with her cash handling....
I guess this is even more of an issue you just made...

It's called INTEGRITY.... There Mr. Moneysolutions....
You should REALLY look it up......
Some of us have it and some of YOU DON'T....

Pissing me off? No. Not at all...
My $ going your way? NO. NOT AT ALL.

It's a good thing for this post too.. I just recently started buying from Gunbroker. I've been warned!

[Ed_Hazard]

Not even the same situation by any stretch of the imagination.

How was he "trying to take advantage of others"? He saw your contract, accepted your terms, and then you realized you made a mistake and told him to pound sand.

Seems to the majority of us here, the person with the sense of entitlement in this case is you. You feel entitled to back out of deals because your employee was to lazy to perform their due diligence and instead recycled an old advert.

I know you wont accept your mistake, but this forum does not forget.

[moneysolutions]

One, your analogy is silly, a bid would have been placed prior to a contract being signed, so something of that magnitude couldn't occur. It's a laughable grasp at straws.

In this case, you wrote the contract and put it out for anyone to accept, so you should hold up your end of the deal. Judging that another dealer has the same item for a mere $40 more tells me this shouldn't be a bank breaking good faith follow through.

I can guarantee one thing, anyone who reads this thread won't send a single dollar in your direction. That, I'm sure will cost you much more than the $40.

Continuing to defend a losing position only makes you look like someone with no integrity and further reinforces that I wouldn't want to do business with your company. So, congratulations on turning one bad sale into a long list of non-sales, and that, is definitely not smart business.

[EssDee]

Money solutions.... Ok you've already stated that Robert is screwed.

Question....

How much are you or did you selling/sell the item for since te "mistake" was made????

[loophole]

You really don't get it, do you?

If I had some way to prove it, I would bet you that, after all of your excuses, if you called the OP and offered him the gun for FREE, there's a large contingency that have read this thread that would NEVER do business with your company.

You can be as right as you want to be. Can you afford it, though?

[adonis]

My gosh, you really don't understand business and contracts do you? Have you ever bought and sold a home? I have, several times in the last 12 months. And when it comes to homes, there is no sale until the buyer and seller sign and accept the offer with an agreed price and conditions. The last home I listed for sale received many many offers and we sold it to the person we signed the agreement with.

The difference here is when you listed it for sale there is no contingency, it's for sale for the price shown. The buyer agreed to your stated terms and then you reached on the deal. He isn't taking advantage of anything, YOU set the terms to everything.

And again, this isn't you accidentally returning too much money and him refusing to give it back. He wanted to complete a transaction you offered, and you changed the price on him.

If you went to buy a truck and it had $49k on the windshield, but when you went to write up the sale they told you it was $55k or walk, you would feel completely wronged and I'm sure would never return. Congrats, that is exactly how every person reading this feels about you. And your spun around analogies are so out of orbit wrong its honestly amusing.