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Originally Posted by matt
I understand your point Lee. Although that's the housing market and you did wait four years to enjoy that appreciation.
This bloke waited 3 days to mark up a $180 item to $225!!!! And, as a buyer, you enter the market knowing full well you're likely to be buying for more than the vendor originally bought (most times, anyway).
The housing market is about profit, not our little private astro community 
Anyhoo... the upshot? I get home this afternoon after we've exchanged three e-mails saying "it's a deal and let's exchange PayPal details later tonight"... and the dirty rat tells me he's gone and sold it.
Here's the reason:
There was a little bit of miscommunication/confusion (on my part) . . . some of my incoming e-mail is going into the "Junk Folder" . . .
Interestingly, every e-mail I sent... he received A-OK and replied. What the!!!!
So it appears he's gone and got the price he wanted for it anyway, all the time letting me think we had a deal.
Now, that's what I find offensive
I got well and truly on my high horse and reported the matter to Astromart mods.
Nothing will come of it, but I just feel better for getting the dirty water off my chest.
I'm now rocking backwards and forward in a corner of the room chanting the mantra "Serenity now .... serenity now ... serenity now"
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At the risk of being branded a "legal eagle" again, Matt, from a strictly legal perspective you might have an enforceable legal contract.
Where there is offer and acceptance, a binding contract is formed, so long as the terms of the contract were clear. Such offer and acceptance can be demonstrated by a series of emails that result in such an offer and acceptance. Acceptance normally occurs at the time that the communique to accept is sent, not when it is received. That the email accepting the offer was lost in a "Junk Folder" does not affect the validity of the acceptance.
Of course in the real world, one would not actually take action to enforce the agreement at that level. But I guess it is nice to know that you are legally in the right.
I am currently acting for a party in a dispute in the Supreme Court of NSW where they are fighting over an amount of $US100,000,000. Now that IS an amount worth fighting over.
