> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pete > Hollobon > Sent: 21 August 2017 12:52 > To: [email protected] > Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]>; > Paul Anderson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: DEC VT125 on Schpock in Birmingham, UK > > On 20 August 2017 at 19:45, Rob Jarratt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob > >> Jarratt via cctalk > >> Sent: 19 August 2017 23:33 > >> To: 'Paul Anderson' <[email protected]>; 'General Discussion: > >> On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' <[email protected]>; 'Pete Hollobon' > >> <[email protected]> > >> Subject: RE: DEC VT125 on Schpock in Birmingham, UK > >> > > Well, that didn't go too well. > > > > I made the offer of the asking price. I got no reply, no acknowledgement, no > acceptance or rejection. Then today someone else made an offer which seems > to have been accepted. When I asked why I had not even had a response I was > told he wasn't prepared to wait for several weeks (I had said I might not be > able to collect for a week or two), and I had not been given any opportunity > to > discuss it. I could see he had accepted someone else's offer, and he then > promptly asked me if I would beat his highest offer. > > > > After accepting someone's offer it doesn't seem too right to then ask if > someone else will beat it. Perhaps not the kind of seller to deal with I > think. > > > > So, although I have wanted a VT125 for a long time, it looks like I am > > not going to get one :-( > > > > Ugh. Sorry to hear that. > > I've some success buying things with Schpock, but it is more like making a > best > offer on a buy-it-now on eBay: until the other side accepts, it is just an > offer. > There isn't an equivalent of a straight buy-it-now, any offer (even of asking > price) is up for approval by the seller. > > It looks like that guy sold it to someone else off Schpock anyway, presumably > for more than the £55 he quoted you. >
I get the bit about the offers, but then he got to the point of saying he accepted the offer. *After* accepting the offer he asked me if I would beat the offer. That is the bit I found unacceptable. Regards Rob
