Was this before or after we talked on the phone?

Perfect was your word, not mine man. If you hadn't called them that I would have never sent you cash in the first place. That is your mistake, not mine, so please take a little responsibility. You oversold. You promised item quality that you did not have to deliver. I understand that. It is natural to try to say what it takes to sell something, but that mentality also causes situations like this where the difference in item quality is large enough that the buyer cannot/will not be satisfied with the goods in question.

I certainly understand being agitated, I know I would be. But then again, when I was in a similar situation, I did the right thing and made the refund the same day. (and even then my situation was a little different. I had a used set of heads for an L36/L67 that were an EARLY porting by a company called ZZP. As such, the specs on them as "stage 2 heads" was not the same as the current product that they sell. I even had the documentation for the heads, but refunded the customer the cost of having the matching work done when he pointed out that they were not up to the current product spec since I did not communicate that ahead of time). The point is that I did the right thing even though it was inconvenient. In a forum sales situation you have to have a fair amount of blind faith in the other end of the transaction. I have that faith and it is my job to ensure that it is lived up to, or if not, it is to ensure that if someone else makes the same mistake, it is not for lack of warning.

Per our phone conversation, I still intend to update my posts to reflect the rest of the story, fix the trader rating post, and cancel my paypal claim when you paypal me back to set things straight.

Taking $10 off to cover your shipping costs to me and then offering to cover shipping costs back to you so that you are not out any money is generous on my end, since I am not in the wrong on this.

For what its worth, its not bad mouthing if its right, which it was as of last night. Keep in mind that there was no communication for about a week after you said you would call me back on Tuesday. Granted, you said that you broke your phone on Tuesday, but you had other means of communicating (email or pm on here, most notably) and since you didn't there was no way for me to know that you had a problem. The natural conclusion was that you were going to continue to ignore my calls and assume that I would eventually give up. This is a community and its my job to protect/inform my peers so that that sort of thing doesn't happen to someone else. Had you simply let me know that you were having a problem and needed more time or whatever, then things would have been peachy.

When you've reimbursed me, as I said, I am happy to tell the rest of the story, but what I have posted is correct and current as of last night.

Anyway, the moral of the story...from my perspective is that I am not mad or upset or anything. I simply want you to make things right, just like we talked about on the phone this afternoon.

If you have any questions or want to talk about how or why I did what I did, feel free to give me a call.

Have a nice evening, man

~Jason