What makes a deal a "done deal"?

[mom'sfolly]

If she said she would sell them at the reduced price and drive them I feel she had a deal with the customer. If she did not, that's different. In most transactions of this kind there is no deposit, there is merely an agreement. I would be totally torqued off if I had called someone, they had agreed to sell to me, and then they pulled out, especially if they had already said something like "I guess you can have them for eight each, how about we meet Thursday".

If it was a fishing expedition where the conversation was of the sort where someone asks what is for sale, gets the price, asks if the price can be lowered, and either party says "I'll get back to you" that is different.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Just reread your post. If there was not set price or time the deal was not completed and your friend was well within bounds to sell them elsewhere.

 

[19hhbelgian]

She was well with in her right to sell to the neighbor IF there was no verbal agreement made on the phone/email, which you stated there wasn't. When I first got into chickens, I found a guy with 6 EE hens. I called him up and asked him questions, and told him that I would call him back that night with a yes or no (had to talk to DH about it), to which he replied, sounds good... I did call him back to tell him yes, and he said he'd sold them. I felt a little peeved, but at the same time, he couldn't pass up cash in hand just to wait for my phone call that may or may not have come... I obviously wasn't nasty to him - his birds he can do what he wants with them - same for your friend. Unfortunately a lot of people don't think about it like that, and they think that just because they talk to the seller, they should be 1st in line so to speak. Maybe since the person had made an offer, they thought the deal was done & all that was needed was a reply from your friend. I think if they wanted the birds that badly though, they would have made more of an effort to get them secured.

 

[Cetawin]

Well I would say it depends on the promises or guarantees made by your friend. If she told the lady she would lower the price and bring the brinds, then your friend is wrong to have sold them to someone else. With no promises of delivery or agreement on price...oh well the buyer loses.

In my non-official world, your word is your bond...do not promises or agreements and then change them.

 

[Mommi3130]

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There is another side to this story, I know the other person who was involved in this and your friend had told her that she would meet her, if she would take an extra rooster off her hands and there was a set price. They talked last night about what day would be best to meet (and I have seen the emails) and then this am your friend wrote her and told her they were "rehomed with a friend" and that she had other birds of another kind if she wanted them. There were no names called and I know my friend was upset cause her son was excited and she had to tell him that they were gone after last night telling him he could have them.
Always remember there are 2 sides to a story.