Bought a tractor???

He did the job on a hand shake that I would pay him in a couple of years!!!!! Luckily I got a good job lined up before I graduated and I worked some hard to pay him by the middle of that summer. When I arrived with the cash, he said I didn't mean you had to pay me all at once. Can you believe it???
That guy will do any job for me and I always pay him within 30 days. All because of a hand shake!!

Buyer "A"

1) Lots of talk
2) No cash
3) No trailer
4) Wants me to deliver the thing 4 hours away
5) Wants me to assume risk... what if he won't accept it, or if he tries to get me to drop the price, or what if he tries to hand me a check, or what if he doesn't have the money, or what if he's some kind or flake just wasting my time, etc.

Buyer "B"

1) Pays cash and hauls it away.
2) Zero risk

I don't know what the practice is where you live but here it's called "cash on the farm". No piece of equipment ever leaves a farm until it's been paid for in full. People still shake hands, they just do it with cash in them!

AND that the guy who sold it out from under you is still trying to collect on the bounced check.

It all works out in the end as no good deed goes unpunished.

I bought a running complete Farmall Cub for $500. When we drove it out of the guy's back yard and onto my trailer, the seller's neighbor came running from across the street to see it. He had no idea the thing was hiding in his neighbor's back yard. If I hadn't had my trailer there that day I'm sure the neighbor would have upped my offer as soon as I left.