[Adam Ef]

I had a very weird similar thing with a Gumtree ad for my Tracer. One guy swore he wanted it, with extras fitted back on, engine bars, exhaust etc. Wanted to be round that day. Then couldn't make it. Arranged another day. No show. Then I was away a couple of days and he got in touch saying he'd got one from a dealer for almost the same price but with Nitron shock, custom dyno ecu tune, every bit of bling under the sun and dealer six month warranty. Sounded very unrealistic but there you go. So he no longer wanted mine. By that point I'd held if for a week for him and put other people off seeing it.
I got back to two other really keen buyers and they'd bought elsewhere so I'd lost the sale twice more.
Original guy then got in touch a few days later and said his friend wanted it and he would contact me. I pointed out that I was now deifnitely doing it on a first come basis as I'd lost two sales waiting for him.
He flew off the handle sending me all sorts of really abusive messages saying I was a moral-less seller and it had been promised to him. Loads of really over the top and abusive crap in a few messages.He accused me of betraying him because I wanted to sell to someone who wanted more mods than him so would pay more. I don't know where he got that idea from. I think he also messaged me in disguise on eBay and then set me loads more abuse on Gumtree saying I shouldn't be advertising is elsewhere or talking to others about selling it to them.

I dont know why I bothered replying at this point but I did correcting all his assumptions. I'd lost all other interested buyers at this point and said if his friend still wanted it in the spec that I'd rebuilt up for him then he was wlecome to it. He provided his friends number. No reply to text. Then two days later a reply saying "wrong number".
Then zero contact or replies to the original guy on Gumtree. By this time it had been two weeks and a lot of wasted time and other buyers lost.
I then started to realise that somehting odd had been going on and I had possibly been strung along to mess up my sale? I'd never had anything like this before and have no idea what someone would get out of doing it? Possibly they do it for fun? Or they're very bored?
Either way this experience and several other problem timewasters led to this being the worst ever experience I've had selling a bike or car. Next time I'll seriously be looking to trade with a dealer.