[Judge Smails]

Just to give everyone the heads-up on this Robert Ogden guy. Won a pair of 70-81 inner fenderwells from me (literally, as it turns out) on 10/30. Although in his previous 100 transactions he had a previous "incident" of screwing a seller (identical to this one, in 5/04), since all the other items from that week were paid-- and I live about 8 miles from the FedEx shipping center-- I decided to try to save a trip down there and trust that he wouldn't hang onto them as a gift if they arrived before he sent out a check or MO. It was stupid, of course, and I guess I got what I deserved, since I normally wouldn't think of it, except with someone who's an established 100% (or EXTREMELY close) or I've dealt with before, but I just wanted everyone here to not repeat my mistake if/when anyone deals with him. Waited 2 weeks before I even emailed to ask if anything was wrong; he was hollerin' that he didn't know what I was talking about. Said he swore he sent payment, but would check on it (what?). Claimed he sent out ANOTHER money order (and not even for the correct amt!), but naturally, he saved NEITHER receipt from these 2 alleged money orders of course. I waited ANOTHER 2 weeks and finally gave up on it. I realize most people here would be embarrassed to violate someone's trust like that but like I said, I just want to make sure that no one else EVER sends this guy anything until his funds have ARRIVED AND CLEARED. In fact, he's having a nice laugh over it right now in his response to my neg: "why would he ship if payment hadn't been received?", etc. That's what I get for trying to get his item to him faster I guess. It says a lot about a person what he does when no one's looking-- or when his item has arrived before payment's been sent. Thanks for your time everyone.