Quality Leather Briefcases For Sale

[cptjeff]

Come on, give this guy a break! Just because someone is in a 'queue' to buy, doesn't mean the seller has made any agreement with them. Unless they spoke directly about the sale of the item and had at least come to a verbal agreement, the seller should be able to do what he or she wants! I don't know the details of this whole thing, but I'm guessing the rest of you guys don't either. But maybe I'm wrong here as well...

Legally speaking you're right. An advertisement, even a price list for specific items, is a solicitation for offers, not in and of itself an offer. He did not have an agreement with any poster, so no contract.

Ethically is a wholly different question, and he did flat out lie to the other parties interested the second time, by his own admission. If he had just said "I'm sorry, but the item is no longer on the market", there wouldn't be an ethical issue, other then the price increases, which are quite debatable as an ethical matter. Quite frankly I come down on ranchnman's side on that, he made a mistake and was able to correct it before a binding contract was entered into. I find no fault in that.

[tonypaj]

I also tend to take a bit more legalistic approach, probably because of my job and the fact that the ethical part is extremely difficult to impose due to people coming from different parts of the world and massively different backgrounds.

I have bought one item from Ranchman, it was reasonably priced and exactly as described, he held his part of the deal perfectly. But then again, I've never had any problems with anyone else here, either.

[scotrace]

Items not for sale, let's let this go for now.