Ok thanks everyone for your advice.......some people seem bitter that I'm making a healthy profit. But that wasnt the point of the post. I never mentioned a monetary amount initially but someone decided to go snooping in my previous posts, which seems odd, but obviously acceptable. This is the point of the post:
If a typical deal from sale agreed to signing of contracs takes 2 months, would you accept a 5% gazumping over this normal timeframe?
The buyer engineered the extra delay of 1.5 months to purposely take advantage of the economic situation. This frustrated me. I'm sure every single one of you would be equally frustrated.
The black magic reference was a joke that got out of hand and obviously rubbed people up the wrong way. Personally i dont believe in it, but some people here think it was poor form so i take it back. No offence meant.
The actual result is that we have agreed to meet half way at a reduction of 2.5%. I just hope some of you who were so quick to jump on the bashing bandwagon dont experience engineered gazumping because its a nasty experience when it happens to you.