avoid bad sellers

[HappyFox]

My wife and I found what we thought was the deal of lifetime the other day on craigslist under the boats tab. The yacht was 2000 Silverton convertible with reasonable hours. She defiantly showed signs of neglect like it has not cleaned in years. I thought about hat thoroughly because we all know neglect to a yacht is normally expensive. As I studied the pics for hours it really appeared that 99% of the work will just be elbow grease to clean it up.
I reached out to the seller and made arrangements to buy the yacht for the asking price sight unseen, (which is a real gamble on my behalf) and even offered to put a large deposit on her until we arrived with final payment. We live in NC which is about a ten-hour drive to where she is located. We left the next morning with smiles on our faces so excited on purchasing our first yacht together to live out both of dreams to see this beautiful country together while we still had each other. (I am unfortunately fighting an illness I apparently got from serving multiple tours fighting terrorism overseas in the Marines from prolonged exposure to toxic fumes from burn pits). When we pulled up to the seller's residence, we could barely contain our joy, I had made arrangements for storage, towing and all prior to leaving. The seller opened the door and the look on their face immediately made think something was up! I told them who I was, and we have the money as agreed for the purchase, they then said Well I probably should have called but someone offered me $30k for the yacht and they toed it away this morning!!! My heart sank and my wife immediately burst into tears, and when I saw her tears I began to shake almost uncontrollably, all this happened in just seconds, the seller said I am sorry guys and I don't want any trouble, I just couldn't hold my feelings and told them what a wonderful person that they were and I should give them a hug.(replace a few words in that sentence I am sure you know what I actually said). We had just drove over 600 miles for nothing! They slammed the door and said they were calling the police if I didn't leave immediately. Now we are home safe, the wife has not come out of the bedroom since, back to the drawing board. I am going to stick to what we had planned for our first boat and approach everything way more cautions now. People today are definitely not like the people of the boomers and Gen Z that is for sure! Sorry for the long story just don't want to see anyone else have to deal with what we just did.
Happy Foxs