Deal's off

I've been meaning to post this, but bummed so I kept putting it off.

We were expecting the husband on Tues with a written offer to purchase. Instead, he comes over, looks around the house and waffles. "Oh, I'm nervous about the age of the roof/furnace" "We just aren't sure we want to spend that much" Hello, you made a deal last night and you were all excited, mister. The other house they were looking at, the one the wife told us they were settling for, is only $5K less. He left saying they would call us by that evening with the decision on if they wanted to buy our home. They called with a no that night.

I'm feeling totally frustrated and hurt. WHY come look at the house if you don't think you can afford it? Why did they tell us they could spend X if they didn't want to actually pay it? We even lowered our price 10K for them because they were SO excited about the house and she was such a great person.

Back to square one.