Offered to put money down and the sales guy said lemme check on getting this shipped to ya while I did the same. He came up with a sweeter deal than I did for shipping it, so said let’s run what you got going. His cheery chat on the phone then suddenly went gloomy saying “Hey let me call you back.” I figured he must have been looking at his computer finding some ting amiss. So bit later he calls and says “You’re gonna be mad…”.
Decades earlier, recalling this sort a **** show, my mother was all set to buy her ’57 T-Bird AND she plucked down a $100 deposit at the dealer. Well – dealer calls her next morning saying sorry the car was sold and will most certainly give her 100 bucks back. Aha, as the story went…another customer had put down money on the car with another sales guy…supposedly before she had. Hmm, really, almost 24 hours later? She was to say the least, pissed. We figured the other buyer probably offered more cash and they sucked that up for the extra coin rather than venture into telling her what happened, cuz how would they come back saying if you pay us more…after the deal had been agreed to this would stink worse…