Last year I found a guy selling off his collection about 4 hours away so we talked to a reasonable deal for a spider male and female pastel baby (didn't low ball him at all). I contacted asking when would be a good day for me and dad to drive over to pick them up and pay for them. He then said he had a guy coming that night to check out the entire collection (not terribly big). The guy bought all of the animals. I felt pretty cheated even though we hadn't payed yet since we were committed to the purchase and willing to drive 4 hours there and back to get them.
Man, that really sucks!! But, look at it this way--at least you didn't drive all 4 hours and then get there to find out that he'd sold them!
Ball Pythons
1.0 Normal "Draccy"
0.2 Normal "Matika", "Lara Croft"
1.0 Lesser Cinny "Thor"