Further, I'll quote part of the message from the seller:
"I initially told the prospective purchaser that the research I was seeing indicated the item was selling for $675, as I was trying to do research without the gun in front of me. He responded: "And I do see they go around 675, is that your asking price as well?" Subsequently, I learned that the item I had researched was not the exact item I had for sale, which the law considers a "mistake of fact". So, either the Buyer was similarly mistaken as to the exact item or he was intentionally misleading me about the selling prices he was seeing for the item, when he said he also saw this item selling for $675. The item has been selling for $1400 and $1750 on gunbroker - as a show of good faith, I offered the item for $1,000, which is still significantly less than the market price. In response, he chose to post negative feedback, despite the fact Louisiana law would hold that we never had a binding agreement due to the mistake of fact by one or both of us."
If the potential buyer wants to repost neutral feedback, I'm okay with it. This isn't a case of someone breaking site rules or someone being a jerk in the marketplace. It's an example of one or both parties not knowing what was being sold and the sale being canceled as a result of that.
"I initially told the prospective purchaser that the research I was seeing indicated the item was selling for $675, as I was trying to do research without the gun in front of me. He responded: "And I do see they go around 675, is that your asking price as well?" Subsequently, I learned that the item I had researched was not the exact item I had for sale, which the law considers a "mistake of fact". So, either the Buyer was similarly mistaken as to the exact item or he was intentionally misleading me about the selling prices he was seeing for the item, when he said he also saw this item selling for $675. The item has been selling for $1400 and $1750 on gunbroker - as a show of good faith, I offered the item for $1,000, which is still significantly less than the market price. In response, he chose to post negative feedback, despite the fact Louisiana law would hold that we never had a binding agreement due to the mistake of fact by one or both of us."
If the potential buyer wants to repost neutral feedback, I'm okay with it. This isn't a case of someone breaking site rules or someone being a jerk in the marketplace. It's an example of one or both parties not knowing what was being sold and the sale being canceled as a result of that.