rupster62

This is what happened...Dale called and wanted to buy the car. I told him there were two guys that were going to call me tomorrow, and he said "I want the car, what do I have to do?" I told him that whoever sends me a deposit first, or comes and picks up the car will be the one who owns it. Then he told me he would wire me a deposit. I told him $2,000. He contacted my wife for the wiring instructions, and he told her he was going to wire $2,500 to insure that he would get the car. He asked for more pictures, and we sent him over 20 pictures. I know that he could see every detail in the pictures, because he said that it took forever for them to download because the file size was so big. When he got here, he commented about the bar going across the front by the struts, and I told him, that was the way this car was built. Then I jacked it up, he looked underneath, got out, and said "you know Calvin?" I said, yes, he called about the car and was interested, and he said "you can sell him the car, I don't want it." I said, okay? Then, he told me he had some pictures of a car he has owned, and he went to his truck and showed me two 8x10's - one of an old funny car that was redone and looked more like a show car - not a race car. The second one was a 63 corvette that was his brother's car and was built one to two years ago, and it probably cost over $100,000. I am not advertising a $100,000 car. He asked no questions about the car...he was too eager to buy it. Then he said, "okay all I need is my $2,500 and I'm going to get out of here," and I said, "What? A deposit means you're going to buy the car, or you're going to lose the deposit." But evidently he thinks you can give a deposit and hold someone up for two weeks and make them lose out on other offers while he comes and tire kicks. I pulled my car off the internet, and turned down offers because I thought it was sold. No I did not say I wanted a non-refundable deposit on my ad at that time, because I thought people understood a deposit is non-refundable. I learned from this after this incident, and the disclaimer has been on my ad ever since. I even asked him when we were standing in my garage..."So you're telling me that I misrepresented this car to you?" and he said, "no, that's not what I'm saying. It's just not what I'm looking for." I haven't told ANY lies about this car. I am willing to describe it to at T to anyone, and will take as many pictures as anyone would like me to take. I have been lied to before, and driven many miles after being misrepresented to, and I would not do that to anyone. I think I'm the one losing out on this whole deal, because I gave him his $2,500 back. He asked me if he was going to have any problems cashing my check, and said no. Then he said, "you're not going to call and cancel this are you?" and I said no. And I didn't, but I could have if I was not an honest person. This was on April 7th, and I haven't heard anything from him since, until tonight when I hear that he's posting this ad talking crap on me. I don't appreciate being called a liar because I've never lied to Dale, or anyone else about this car. Thanks for letting me tell my side of the story. Travis