This very much should have been handled exactly the way it was...
This is like a buyer beware of someone paying $800 for a $300 tac...
This makes it fair for the seller and the buyer...
since you're doing the occasion how about me doing some and thinking that you're in on the over $500 markup maybe you get half?...
I wanted to make a reasonable offer but when he started at $800 I couldn't think of anything reasonable... If you would have started at 300 and ask for a reasonable offer it would probably be on my car right now....