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  • Premier_2
    Premier_2 Posts: 15,141 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    besonders1 wrote: »
    why don't you get your revenge on the seller and gazump the new buyer then make a silly excuse to cancel the deal later. Works both ways!
    Are you offering to fund the legal expenses the OP would incur? :confused:
    Without the OP naming the solicitor to act on behalf of the purchase, no offer would be taken seriously.
    Once in the hands of a solicitor, fees soon start to accrue (or it becomes clear the buyer has no intention of purchasing)
    "Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 2010
  • Enfieldian
    Enfieldian Posts: 2,893 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Some buyers will pay a premium for a particular flat or house if it means something to them.

    For example, someone buying a flat in the same block as theirs on the ground floor , for an infirm or elderly relative.
  • Planner
    Planner Posts: 611 Forumite
    besonders1 wrote: »
    why don't you get your revenge on the seller and gazump the new buyer then make a silly excuse to cancel the deal later. Works both ways!

    Theres never any need to do this, and definatley not in todays climate when properties 10 a penny!
  • QTPie
    QTPie Posts: 1,373 Forumite
    Planner wrote: »
    Theres never any need to do this, and definatley not in todays climate when properties 10 a penny!

    and two wrongs don't make a right...

    arrrggghhh, these sort of things are all crazy.

    QT
  • Planner
    Planner Posts: 611 Forumite
    QTPie wrote: »
    and two wrongs don't make a right...

    arrrggghhh, these sort of things are all crazy.

    QT

    I know, its all down to moral prespective, which is always tailored to the individual.
  • QTPie
    QTPie Posts: 1,373 Forumite
    Planner wrote: »
    I know, its all down to moral prespective, which is always tailored to the individual.

    I agree completely - and there is a VERY boad variation in moral perspectives around.... *sad little sigh*
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    You win some, you lose some.
    Plenty more out there today, next week, next month....
  • Mr_Matey
    Mr_Matey Posts: 608 Forumite
    BettiePage wrote: »
    Maybe they're expecting you to increase your offer? Don't!

    Chances are they'll be back to you in a few days as the other 'sale' has 'fallen through'.

    After which you lower your bid.
  • slopemaster
    slopemaster Posts: 1,581 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    QTPie wrote: »
    Wow, that does amaze me...!
    ... "hopefully - no matter how awful it might seem now - things will turn out for the best" (
    QTPie

    Thaank you, and i do feel perhaps it just wasn't mean to be, and I will find somewhere better....
  • QTPie
    QTPie Posts: 1,373 Forumite
    slopemaster wrote: »
    Thaank you, and i do feel perhaps it just wasn't mean to be, and I will find somewhere better....

    You will do :). I hope that you keep your integrity when all around you are loosing theirs...

    I vaguely cling to the hope that karma exists - that people will get what is coming to them... so you dserve something good to happen :)

    QT
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