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KWKloeber<dl class="userinfo_extra" style="margin: 5px 0px; float: left; width: 180px; height: auto !important;"><dt style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; min-width: 60px; width: auto !important;">Join Date</dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px;">Oct 2017</dd><dt style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; min-width: 60px; width: auto !important;">Location</dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px;">NC and WNY</dd><dt style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; min-width: 60px; width: auto !important;">Posts</dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px;">2</dd></dl>
The legal and fiduciary responsibility of the broker is toward who pays him/her (the seller) unless you have a written agreement w/a "buyer's broker." It's the same as for a real estate broker.
So, NEVER say to a broker, "See if the seller will accept $x, but I'd be willing to go $x+y. His legal responsibility is to tell the seller the max you will go for. A reputable broker will try to make the deal happen, which is in his client's interest also, so will be reasonable in trying to effect a fair and reasonable negotiation. For instance, if the haul reveals its full of blisters, a reputable broker will try to help negotiate a fair value, and not just take the sellers side that "It's his problem, I won't take a dime less."

KWKloeber<dl class="userinfo_extra" style="margin: 5px 0px; float: left; width: 180px; height: auto !important;"><dt style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; min-width: 60px; width: auto !important;">Join Date</dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px;">Oct 2017</dd><dt style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; min-width: 60px; width: auto !important;">Location</dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px;">NC and WNY</dd><dt style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; min-width: 60px; width: auto !important;">Posts</dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px;">2</dd></dl>
The legal and fiduciary responsibility of the broker is toward who pays him/her (the seller) unless you have a written agreement w/a "buyer's broker." It's the same as for a real estate broker.
So, NEVER say to a broker, "See if the seller will accept $x, but I'd be willing to go $x+y. His legal responsibility is to tell the seller the max you will go for. A reputable broker will try to make the deal happen, which is in his client's interest also, so will be reasonable in trying to effect a fair and reasonable negotiation. For instance, if the haul reveals its full of blisters, a reputable broker will try to help negotiate a fair value, and not just take the sellers side that "It's his problem, I won't take a dime less."