Needing reassurance on purchase

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In my defense, in my neck of the woods, a handshake is your word and one's honor is defined by your actions. If I was to sell something and offered the opportunity for someone to inspect it thoroughly, that would mean I had NOTHING to hide. I guess I'm not used to a world where that means "I'm covering my butt here so that I can't be held responsible". If I sold something to someone and they were in tears over it I would do everything in my power to rectify it. If I was certain the price was fair I would be confident that I could take the item back and sell it the next day to someone else, honor intact, sleeping well at night. I must also stress that I had independant assurance on the purchase. I coincidentally phoned a person for his opinion about the car two days before sealing the deal, not only did he say the car looked great in the ebay ad, but also he was a friend of the sellers, and told me if the seller said it was so then it was so. I also felt reassured by the fact that as the car sat waiting to be picked up, the seller told me that a guy literally woud not leave him alone about the car and was willing to pay me 3K more. Wouldn't this make you believe you had a decent car?