...In states where person to person sales are legal, a seller requiring a background check either is ignorant of the law or just would like to know that the buyer will pass a background check. Not all that unreasonable if the buyer is completely unknown to the seller.
For a deal to be blown over a background check and transfer fee, you must not want the gun bad enough. Besides, if the seller is insisting on the FFL transfer, then they should be willing to absorb the dealer transfer fee.
In states where the sale is legal, I think the adding of unnecessary requirements is unreasonable.
If it truly is a sale, somehow or another, it will be the buyer that has to absorb any fees. If cost causes a buyer to not want something bad enough, then the goal of control is being attained. I don't think the original person expressed that the money caused the deal to fall through. Reasonable people may have differing, but just as valid points of view.
