By all means, please feel free to share the seller in question, correspondence he had with you.
I’ll have to disagree here. It is considered bad form in virtually all honorable forums to publicly post private messages or emails. They are by definition private. Even if the other guy is a complete scumbag, private correspondence should remain so. Sharing private correspondence with law enforcement - or forum enforcement - is usually acceptable. Regardless, I’m glad the OP got resolution, even if it wasn’t to his liking. He could have ended up with neither his knife nor his money…
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