I have to say, I'm the same way.. I would go to no end to track him down if he screwed me outta money.. A roundtrip ticket could be bought from Cali for probably 3 or 400 dollars... If you're closer, I can only imagine the ticket would be much cheaper..
So, those of you who have shipped to him, or paypal'd him, you have his addy right.. GO GET HIM TO PAY UP.... I would.. [sm=lol.gif]

I almost had the same happen on a recent transaction sorta from a guy on RCU.. I payed for a QQ Yak NIB, he shipped, damaged in shipping by ups, ups denied the claim, then after 2 months, the ups store finally got the money back. I received notification a few days ago that Extreme Flight shipped me a new one.. I opted for the EF instead of the QQ this time.. It hasn't arrived, supposed to be Tuesday.. I thought I had lost the money as he said I had to wait for the refund from ups like it was my fault or something.. Which is odd, because the guy owns a online hobby store.. He did answer my emails and took my phone calls though.. Less frustrating than getting no answer like you folk...
Who can you trust online anymore? We had this come up over the holidays with things that should have arrived a week or two in advance of Christmas, but didn't show up till after they were in stock.. Which wasn't noted or mentioned in the delivery dates in the confirmation emails.. Was talking with my family over this and we came to a strange conclusion.. Is it almost to the point that we will start buying in the stores again to avoid the online scams, the out of stocks that aren't mentioned, the risks of having out card numbers stolen, and also the risks of having our packages tossed around by the shipping companies that could care less what's in the package with the big words FRAGILE written all over it?

Chris