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Julian, you seem like a good honest guy with the right intentions. It's never a nice feeling to miss out on a pre-negotiated buy, but who can blame the seller for accepting an easy, spontaneous transaction?
You may have keenly proposed a meeting place, but you had simultaneously relayed the fact that you did not have sufficient funds to pay for said wheels. Alarm bells would be ringing in my head by this point.
Sellers using forums/online marketplaces are continually barraged with a total shitstorm of flakes, story tellers and dropouts. It can be a harrowing ordeal. I am personally scarred. Our very own @Dazaa had a laugh at my ongoing frustrations as a seller the other day. "You'll need thicker skin than that".
There are timewasters among us all, and on every street. Why do they exist? It would make for a fascinating and enriching analytical study. Please send me a PM if anyone wants to collaborate on a TED talk with me on this topic.
The best deals are short, snappy and never dragged out. It's the lengthening time spent that just opens it up to the possibility of messiness. And the city moves fast. A deposit is a great way of proving you are deadly serious about buying something.
Who knows what financial pressures the seller is under? Or space requirements? Sellers need cradling and looking after in order to affirm their confidence that the buyer will be the shining beacon of promise to beam its light through the dark, circling clouds of delusory and nugatory sales which plague our day-to-day with such pillaging vigour.