What makes a deal a "done deal"?

[BayCityBabe]

I just got off the phone with a friend who was really upset. A would-be customer just ripped her a new one.

It seems that the customer e-mailed, interested in some birds. The customer asked if my friend would come down on price and if she would travel to drop off the birds. There was no set price or meeting time. Meanwhile Friend's neighbor dropped by & asked to buy the birds. So, off the birds went - down the road. A great deal, eh? At least my friend didn't have to burn up gas to make someone a good deal.
Anyway, when she e-mailed the Interested Party, she got a whole load of mean and nasty. This person called a very dear lady a bunch of mean things, told her she was rude & awful.

That just makes me pose this question: When is a deal a "done deal"?????? I told my friend that it would have been mean and awful if she would have stood up the customer. (We all know that happens alot with private sales.) But I do not think that selling something that you have for sale to the first person who arrives, cash-in-hand, is so terrible. (My opinion...)

 

[Camelot Farms]

When payment is made most of the time is the only thing that secures a deal for me or payment arrangements....such as 'I will pay you tomorrow'. Then if tomorrow comes and the payment doesnt...the deal dies.

I would have done the same as your friend.

 

[BayCityBabe]

My friend just seemed SAD, whereas I would have been, like, "stuff it" to this would-be customer. I am a meanie!

 

[Julie08]

If said friend said okay they are yours for whatever money and I will deliver them saturday at 4 PM, then in my opinion the deal is done and the birds are sold, but since I don't believe there was a meeting of the minds (which means a contract) in this case then I don't believe the deal was indeed done.

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

Hard cash for strangers/people I don't trust. A hand shake for people I know. A phone conversation with a stranger? No way!

Rusty

 

[Chickenmaven]

I work in commercial property leasing. If the contract is not signed & money exchanged... I get stood up all the time.

 

[debilorrah]

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Your friend has the right to sell to who she wants to. If no deposit was made, tough!

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

I sell dogs, and if there is a deposit with a written contract, the deal is done , if they do not show or communicate problems they forfit thier deposit and I am free to sell to another party.
Your friend had no contract, no money down, no meeting time....she has the right to sell to whom ever she wants!

 

[Southernbelle]

I agree with the other posters, you friend was perfectly in the right. If the other buyers wanted them that bad they could've paid full price and come and got them.

 

[LarryPQ]

A deal is done when all aspects of the contract are met.

No contract- tough effin cookies.