Ha!
Many years ago a guy came to my shop and asked if I had any roller conveyer, I said I had 2 sections but they were at my house, and I told him where I lived, and said go take a look, if you like um just leave 50 bucks under the doormat. Well I guess he liked um, they were gone, and I guess he forgot about the 50. Damn, I've done some stupid things.
I have done my share of trading/selling and have had mixed results. Most are just like you said, you can't believe a word they say, if they don't have their money at risk. I have come across a few that their word was as good as their money. I have gone ahead and bought stuff that I said I would take when I wanted to back out , just because I said I would! I had to quit saying that, it was costing me money. Like you, I think that is the way things should be, but are seldom that way anymore! I have supposedly true accounts, where a man convicted and senticed to hang, would be reliesed on his WORD, to get his family taken care of, crops in, etc. and then he would show up to his own hanging!! That is keeping his word!! I suspect that kind of honor is long dead?
