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Never heard that fish definition of "flake" before Steve. Flake in the USA is slang for strange, weird or an unpredictable/unreliable person. So my take on the buyer being called a flake was not so much name-calling, but a slang term used to describe someone's actions or personality.

To say that he is "not a flake" would indicate he is a straight-up guy which is just the opposite of the thread's intended purpose.

Although I know neither of the gentlemen discussed in this thread, I think Welshman did the right thing re-titling the thread about the buyer "reneging" as opposed to being a flake, as others here on planet earth might not understand the slang meaning of flake.

It's all semantics sometimes.