As one of those damn fools (ironic choice of words with your literacy), I wanted to let you know why it matters to us.
I know it won't mattter to you since you haven't figured it out already, but maybe you will quit crying about us too.
I just started casting recently, and when I posted a WTB ad here for things to get started, I not only had a gentleman put together a nice "starter kit" for me at a good price, I also had someone give me a mould.
THAT is what kind of people we have here. I didn't ask for anything special, but I had it offered to me anyway by people who didn't know me from Adam.
And while I can't put into words how much I appreciated that, it really didn't surprise me when I thought about it. It's like that almost everywhere in the shooting world. Shooters are some of the best people and are great at taking care of each other.
Now, in contrast, there is you and what you have done.
And thanks to you, people might be a little more wary and a little less generous now. The next time somebody puts something up for sale and another guy says he wants it but can't get the money out for a few days and asks the seller to hold it, what do you think will cross his mind?
You will.
You're destroying everyone's trust, even if just a little, whether you have "dealt" with them or not ("dealt" is being generous as it implies a completed deal). The guy who might have taken a check last week, will insist on a Money Order now. The guy who would have held something for a couple of days before, won't now.
So yeah, you have hosed everybody here, whether you dealt with them directly or not.
But if you really and truly haven't figured that out yourself by now, then you never will get it.