I don’t have any interest in a Rolex personally.
But I did buy from another co-worker years ago a somewhat damaged but ultimately repairable a 12,000 watt (12KW) Onan diesel generator that he found along the Alaska Highway miles from no where and hauled it back onto his truck, I bought it, a welder and an air compressor for $150. He needed fast cash right then and there. I’m not a pawn shop.
The generator is worth at least $2,000, months later he came back demanding I sell everything back to him.
What would you do?
There is a big difference in buying a damaged generator from a coworker who needed fast cash and a car from someone who had placed his faith in something that you knew beforehand would not occur. The first guy wanted money which you gave him and therefore has no moral or legal right to reclaim the generator. But the second fellow gave you the truck for a pathetic and tragic reason which you knew was false, but you took the truck anyway. That, to me, seems like profiting from someone’s misery. My example to you in the previous post was not to highlight the Rolex but to show the ethical conundrum.