If I remember correctly hiking the price from that which was marked in that fashion is frowned upon by the law. I wouldn't do business with that dealer either.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
oh yeah, I've met some greedy and stupid people around the block...one reason why I like model railroading is that our group usually has fewer of 'em
The St. Francis Consolidated Railroad of the Colorado Rockies
Denver, Colorado
You did the right thing. If I was the seller, I would let you have for that price just to get it off my hands.
Will
No,I beleive you did the right thing!!
After you showed her that it wasn't a dummy locomotive,she should've let you have it for the original price of$25.00,not double the price!!!
My wife and I went to a train show in Wallingford, CT earlier today. During the course of looking around, my wife found a somewhat beat-up Athearn DD35A that she liked. The tag on it said $25.
I asked the woman that was running the booth if I could test it out, and she said that the engine was a dummy, I pointed out the flywheel that was visible through the frame and the fact that the wheels did not freely spin.
So I tested the engine out, and found that it ran, albeit roughly, likely nothing a good cleaning would not fix. When I got back to the booth the woman asked if the engine ran and I replied that it did, after some help moving.
She asked if we were interested in the engine, my wife replied that she was.
"Hmmm.... $25... nope......"
The dealer took off the $25 tag and replaced it with a $50 tag.
My wife got rather upset with the dealer quite rapidly, to the point where I had to drag her away before she lost her temper with the dealer.
Now my wife is upset that she did not get the engine that she wanted me to get for her. I suppose $50 is reasonable for the engine, despite the work needed to the shell and handrails, but with the dealer's rather sharp tongue and insistence that the tags she placed on items she was selling was not the actual price, I did not feel that I should buy anything from her.
Did I do the right thing by refusing to deal with this woman, or should I have paid the $50?
I am even starting to doubt that I should have tested the engine out, and just paid the $25 at the start of it all.
So many scales, so many trains, so little time.....