Also, the bolded part you wrote above is completely untrue. Verbal contracts *are* binding. The "without witnesses or recordings" part leads me to believe you are saying that a person can just deny they made the verbal contract and nobody can prove otherwise. That may be true if you have no morals or ethics, and in that case, a bright future in the used car sales industry awaits.
My first job was helping out and later selling used Trucks on family owned lot
This is why I spot gullible people buying into salesman pitch from mile away. I have nothing against Aurora personally, I just dont like childish naivety.
Have no doubt, there are no morals in business. "Dont tell anyone" is not an NDA, and is as enforceable as "I promise to ship it first thing in the morning".
I was keeping up with the thread several times a day - maybe there were some posts I missed, but I don't think so - and from what I saw, you guys are assuming the "NDA" was something between him and the salesman. But he never said that - it's an assumption on you guys' part, right?
From my reading of all his posts, it's pretty clear he is "in the biz" somehow. For all we know, he works for a company that buys alot of FLIR sensors, and is under NDA at work. Who knows - but one thing is for sure, none of us know what specific NDA exists, and honestly, it's not really our place to guess at it, and it's not fair to guess and then bash the guy based on our guesses.
At the end of the day, if he feels he wants to pull back, how is that worthy of ridicule? It's not like if he got in trouble for it, you and the rest of the posters are the ones to suffer the ramifications.
Since he has voluntarily excused himself from the thread, it's poor manners to shit on the guy based on what people guess was his reasons for doing so.
As for the contract thing, "there are no morals in business" is not only complete bullshit, it's also untrue, especially in the context of what you wrote. If you have no problem committing fraud to earn a buck, that's your problem - I feel sorry for anyone who suffers that particular character flaw.