Sounds like you already sold the car. Honor the agreement with the orignal buyer.

By stay with the terms go ahead and sell it to him still or tell him took too long for payment?

its one of the golden rules about treating others as you would want to be treated.....to a point...

besides....I'd almost bet that the transaction with the guy from Norway in the long run will go a lot smoother than with the guy here in the States that wants to suddenly pay you more for the car..

have not heard to many bad things about deals going sour with anyone from the part of the world where Norway/Denmark/Holland etc are located, they love our American muscle cars, but next time instead of accepting a check, do a bank to bank wire transfer, its safer, faster, and almost painless and no fears about someones check bouncing......

should you wait longer after the money is released?

might not hurt, just to be on the really safe side of things, on the other hand, if this deal is going as normal, your buyer is going to arrange all the transport and shipping, correct?

If that's the case there will be a delay of time anyway's, it will take time for a transport company to be hired or sent out by the shipping company, the last time that I sold a car overseas (it went to Denmark) (third one!) after the money had been all cleared through wire transfer it still took another month before a transport company called to make arrangements for pick up.

just make sure that your buyer is doing all the leg work about arranging all the transport and shipping etc, and make sure that he keeps you up to date with what is going on and with whom, then you can verify everything on your end as far as if the transport company is for real etc.....

believe me I know what you are feeling, the first car I sold to an overseas buyer I was wetting my pants all the way through the deal, after all was said and done, I became good friends with the buyer, sends me xmas cards, calls, writes, etc., they are in general really good people!!

another thing you might get yourself prepared for is the length of time everything does take, in my cases it took at least a month each time for a transport company to show up and then the car would be transported to a port where it would sit for up to another 3 months, then another couple of weeks sitting on a ship crossing the pond, another couple of weeks to clear their customs and then to finally be in their hands, altogether from the time the sale happened to the time the buyer received it, about 4.5 months.

Yea the problem is that my dad put the money in my account back home, and a portion of the funds have been deposited while the rest clears. So I can't do a stop on the check and send it back. He has already arranged shipping through Oceania, LLC. I have talked to him on skype and he seems genuine but I just don't want to get hosed. He said this is his 5th US car but he bought it with a brand new ebay account with 0 feedback.

The first overseas buyer I had from Denmark, hedged on the transfer because of the fees he was going to get charged, in the long run he went ahead and followed through with it.

Now, some banks here in the States only charge the receiver of the transfer meaning you or I, and I was going to pass those charges on to him which I did, just curious?

"have not heard to many bad things about deals going sour with anyone from the part of the world where Norway/Denmark/Holland et"

Yes, I sold a Merc edes to a dude from Holland. It was an off-Ebay deal, and he did wire transfer, and everything went very smoothly. I was just shocked that he'd send money to a total stranger with no recourse. If I were a crook, it would have been an EASY scam. It's nice to see someone so trusting....but it makes ya wonder, how long before their luck runs out and they get scammed.

OP, if you accepted the guys check, go through with the deal. If you had rejected the check, because it did not conform to your payment method, it would have been different- but I'd say if you accepted the check, you have a deal. Wait for it to fully clear and send the car off to Sven, by-yimminy.