Just met a buyer for my laptop, something doesnt seem right

@WeedZ what do you mean?
I'm ready to bargain man, but 800 is way too low

If it were me, I'd tell them to buy from where ever they saw it and move on to the next potential buyer unless they wanted to give me a fair offer.

Excellent social engineering.

But nobody should pay that much for a laptop, either.

I wouldn't pay more than $800 for a laptop period, let alone a used one, no matter the specs. Now if this was a desktop you built yourself with high-end parts, I could see it, but I guess you both want something for nothing.

To be honest, that's a damn clever scam...

You sound like a crazy ex that doesn't know when to stop contacting someone tbh.
Meet buyer, reject buyer, move on. 0 contact after.

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I'm with @Hells Malice

This whole post ridiculous. I'm even more baffled that so many people have any kind of opinion on it other than "why on earth are you keeping in contact with somebody after already rejecting an offer"?

What laptop is it which even a preowned one costs 1300 murica bucks?

Did you sell it yet? I'm curious to see how far you have to lower the price to sell it.

@leon315 This one: https://gbatemp.net/threads/im-planning-to-sell-my-laptop-soon.499466/

It would probably help if you told us what laptop you have instead of making a post about it so you get moral support and boosted confidence on your decision of declining the offer.

Yup, that's bullshit.

@leon315 wow wow wow
not 1300 usd, more like 1300 cad
as @sarkwalvein said, I made a thread months ago
it's still there it seems

I bought a VR for $880 (give or take), only a year later the price dropped hundreds of dollars. I should have waited.. but it's going to be harder to sell a used laptop for that much, even if it was more. :/

@JiveTheTurkey as i said earlier, I dont really want that price
it's just for bargaining

@Noctosphere you still want to sell it? I'm actually in the market and it seems like that almost meets all of my requirements

As soon as shit gets shady with a sale I end it. Lotsa scumbags out there.

Because I know how to have a rocking Tuesday evening I spent part of it reading about contract law and fraud. Now I am replying to a suspended person's months old blog about something most sensible people deemed a non issue.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/contract-fraud-lawyers.html

Statements about the value of an item and opinions are usually not facts and therefore cannot constitute fraud even if they are misrepresented.

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That is however US law so I went for Canada. I then find Quebec (being based on French civil law rather than English common law) has something called good faith as part of its contract negotiations ( https://www.mcgill.ca/centre-crepeau/node/947#fn20 and http://langlois.ca/negotiating-and-...bligation-to-act-and-negotiate-in-good-faith/ ). Good faith appears however to be an incredibly nebulous term (even lawyers say it is -- https://www.americanbar.org/publications/blt/2016/04/02_kierans.html ) and such a thing applies during the negotiation of the contract as well (elsewhere where places go under something like English common law nothing really exists before the contract is made). Most examples I could find applied on the part of the seller, however other things did mention information and societal norms as well as being enacted in the first place as "This was in response to a perceived need to sanction behaviour that, while dishonest, was not manifestly illegal" ( https://www.benchmarklitigation.com/articles/duty-of-good-faith-in-canadian-contract-law/arsapppn ) and the purpose of the civil code itself being to ensure a smooth running society.
To that end I can not say definitively what might happen in Quebec. If the buyer in the OP's case did get pinged for it then (not sure what values court systems go for to be high value contracts, some places $1000 would be it though) then I would consider it a bad law, however it could also be argued I am somewhat biased being from the UK (a country that seems to really resist having good faith type arrangements come into contract law). caveat emptor I guess.

This discussion continued to bother me.
Not quite Canadian/Quebec law but as most here were presumably thinking US law anyway here is a US lawyer dealing in consumer protection law discussing equivalent scenarios



Short version. For most law I am familiar with I was right -- the would be buyer might have been an unscrupulous dick but not an unlawful one. Still not sure what effects, if any, this good faith lark might have for the Quebec side of things but I am going with that.

Consumer law doesn't apply to private second-hand sales

I hope you did reaserch how much you can get for your laptop before you put it on auction. It allow to feel more confident it those type of arguing. So let's admit buyer found better offer for lower price and that shouldn't care you at all. Instead of asking him to show the source where he found it, you should tell him "go for it". I think later negotiations have chance go better. You know value of your hardware, and there are other buyers.