Honor deal or accept higher offer?

[SueDonJ]

being locked out has nothing to do with a banning of a forum account, in fact even if your account were banned, you would still have to successfully type in your correct username and password to the forums to then be notified that your account had been banned =)

Folks get locked out of the forums when they type in an incorrect username and password 5 times in the span of a few minutes. the lockout period lasts for 15 minutes (if im not mistaken) and wont reset even if you reset your password.

you would need to wait till the lockout period passed, and only then would you be able to log in again using the correct username and password...this of course would also again be subject to the same lockout period should you incorrectly type your username/pw in again 5 consecutive times.

Note this is a security feature of the Vbulletin forum software, and exists on tens of thousands of forums running vbulletin...not just TUG.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Brian.

 

[SueDonJ]

After viewing that thread, and because of some other things unrelated, I have to say I am not trusting to doing private transactions even here on Tug. I've had great experiences with a lot of resellers on Ebay and also other private brokers. There's no BS. I say what I want to pay and they say yes or no and it's a done deal. I know others enjoy haggling. I just want to pay for my item and walk out the door.

Even though you may be hesitant about "doing private transactions" even here on TUG, I hope you don't give up on us entirely. There certainly are other sites that have good deals, and TUG also offers some great deals. We purchased two TSs through TUG, and luckily, the transactions went through very smoothly. ...

I agree with both of you! Especially, not having been involved in the timeshare resale market it sure seems to be a skeeeery place. But I wouldn't give up on TUG as a conduit to it - in fact it would be my first choice because I'm already so active here - but this thread is definitely a good reminder that you have to be careful when you're dealing in the timeshare resale market no matter where/how you make the connections.

How did we get so off-topic that we're discussing gravy now?

I did take some of this personally since I buy and resell timeshares and could see the same thing potentially happening to me on TUG. I don't post asking for opinions on how I "do" my business though.

I am a "low key" seller. I list stuff. If you want it at my listed price or a negotiated price; great. I don't chase folks down after I've sent a purchase agreement or a rental agreement. Either you want it at the terms we discussed and will proceed or you change your mind and either notify me or not. I figure if you're really serious, the transaction will proceed. If you're not, what is the good in trying to chase you down? And that's all I'm going to share about that. ...

Gravy is never inappropriate.

If you were to ask ... as long as you're not changing the terms/prices on your buyers after you've sent them contracts that you and they have negotiated in good faith, IMO you're good. Not chasing them down to sign any negotiated contracts is fine by me, but once I have a contract in hand I think it's only fair that you give me a reasonable amount of time to execute it. If you're still taking offers, be clear about that. If you get a higher offer after I have a contract in hand, don't renege on the deal we've negotiated unless I'm not performing according to the clearly-expressed terms! If you're negotiating several deals at once, even with different prices/offers, and it's a race to the finish with the first signed contract winning, that's fine by me as well.

For example, once, we told a seller that we wanted to purchase the TS that he was offering at the price that he was asking. We corresponded about a possible closing company, and he said that he would have them send us the appropriate documents. Two days later, he e-mailed to tell me that someone else had offered him a higher price and asked if we wanted to up our offer. As we did not, we declined his request to up our offer. We were disappointed, but as they say, "Life goes on".

TIA for any insights or experiences you might like to share regarding having your offer declined in this manner. There might be more lessons out there for us, if we ever are in the position of being the seller.

Absent a contract in hand, I don't think your seller did anything wrong. Like you I would have been disappointed but as a buyer I'd deal with that seller again.

 

[DeniseM]

I think it's time to put this thread out of it's misery...