People sell stuff for 2 reasons usually. 1. They need the money or 2. It is taking up valuable space and they just want it gone. Everyone has their own code of ethics mine are likely different then yours not better but just different only you can say for sure if your telling the seller it was worth 2k was for noble reasons or just to make sure to sour the deal for the first buyer because you could not get it..
I try and ask the seller why they are selling something before I commit to buying if they tell me they are selling because they are upgrading or that they are selling because it is something that is just taking up space I normally just pay the price and say nothing. On the other hand if they tell me it is because they need money to feed the kids or fix their car or lost their job or some such I will offer them more then they are asking if it is something I know I can make a buck on and we both win.
I will not tell a seller the value of something until it is in my hot little hands and money has been exchanged however because I have had sellers back out after I told them the value of an item was far more then their asking price and offered them more for it so my time and gas was wasted.
I called a seller one night very late after midnight because he posted the ad 5 mins earlier so I figured he was still up which he was. I told him that I would buy his items for sure and that what would be a good time to come buy them in the morning and asked him to please not sell them to anyone else before then he agrreed and said 9 AM would be good I said fine I will call you then.
The next morning I call him and he told me that he had sold them to someone else about an hour ago I then ask him for how much? he said $75.00 which was his original asking price so I told him that he had screwed up because I had planned on giving him more then his asking price but could not tell him how much more until I seen the items in person to determine the condition both working and cosmetically. I wanted him to know that if he had kept his word he would have came out way ahead.
The items were a Pioneer SX-1250 CT-F1000 HPM-100's
I was then accused here of lying about it and only told the seller that to make him feel bad because I was pissed about not getting them which was half true because yes I was pissed and yes I wanted the seller to feel bad about not keeping his word as a lesson but the truth is I had planned on giving him more once I had bought them simply because it was the right thing to do.
The moral of this story is keep these kind of things to yourself because you will get beat up on an forum like this no matter how noble your intentions.
Regards Snow