Yesterday, we decided to buy an old VW camper van in exchange for our car, Goj, plus a bit of cash. A deal had been discussed a few days earlier and we genuinely believed that we were in the decision driving seat. We gave the green light and the seller stalled. He wanted to think about it and had agreed to call us back. After leaving things cool overnight–and still without a callback–I got in touch with the seller again who, to spare you the long story, had now gone completely cold to the deal and was burping out all sorts of bright, colourful excuses as to why he could not proceed.

Needless to say, we were really disappointed and felt somewhat cheated by the seller for building our hopes up and then knocking them down. :-(