Thank you, total stranger, for giving me a $100!
 

A guy came up in the beginning of January and put a $100 down on my '61 Bel Air. He hasn't come back for the car so that deposit, (as per my stipulations to him) is now mine and I sold the car to someone else.

I'm all for helping a guy out, but holding a car for a month on a $100 deposit is as far as I'm willing to go. Especially when two people walked up a few days later with cash in their hands and I turned them away. :mad: I even tried to e mail the guy a couple times and he never got back with me.

Oh well. His loss, my gain.

Sounds like you did the correct thing. Should be in writing no matter what. Hand shakes are not good enough these days.

It is if I make a deal with you! http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...ies/rant02.gif

Just like you won the lottery. WooHoo !

I was raised that a mans hand shake is his word and honor by my dad. I have made many a deal on a hand shake. Just to many people don't care anymore.

I still like the old hand shake .

Then use hand sanitizer.

:cool:
Exactly how I deal.
Example...I met and sold a guy a trailer of mine a week ago last Sunday. He paid in full by check but couldn't pick it up until last Friday.
Even though I was going to be out of town (in Louisiana) all last weekend, we agreed that I would leave the trailer in my yard for him to pick up at his convenience.
And I left the signed title in the trailer's toolbox.
This guy called me Friday afternoon after picking it up...very pleased with our deal.