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Is this the normal way business is handled?

Maybe someone has asked this before but being somewhat new I haven't seen this issue addressed.

I was looking into buying a pair of speakers from another member (who lives 2000 miles away) While I was asking the seller the usual questions, I'm sure other people were too.
Well I decided to buy the speakers and told the seller so. I was willing to pay the asked price along with all shipping costs. He stated that a local (to him)person was interested (but had not comitted to buy), and he would rather sell them to them to avoid shipping. I feel my offer to purchase was just used as leverage to make the other person to make a quicker decision.

Since I made the first offer isn't the seller obligated to sell them to me?
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aida_w
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Even worse! I had agreed on a deal of a CD-Transport/DAC unit. The seller told me he was glad to sell it as a pair and glad that it would go into good hands and all. Then, while I was arranging money transfer, he told me that somebody else had bought other stuff (!) from him and that he had sold the CD-transport to that person. The DAC he would sell otherwise.
Well, GREAT!
I think you just have to deal with that sort of people. Audiogon is no exception from real life....
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