This is the most offensive thing to me about this situation--not the monetary loss, but the fact that the Madhatter has first implicitly and then explicitly accused me of trying to defraud him.
This doesn't make any sense.
I insinuated that you were possibly trying to scam me via email due to the fact that this is the 2nd time you've mailed to me late and expected me to honor an old rate. The first time could have been the mail system, but twice? It's definitely suspicious, to say the least.
What are you talking about? There have been no trades except for the ones detailed in my post, and everything there (except for the missing letters which are still m.i.a.) has arrived within 10 business days.
With your permission, Madhatter, I will post our entire (digitally signed) email exchange here, to compliment the complete information I have available to me in other forms.
We all know that you are going to do it anyway.
Email conversations have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and I will not be accused of violating someone's privacy except as a last resort. If you prefer to do it differently, I am happy to have you publish the entire exchange yourself. Stop playing these bantering games and let's just lay everything out. I couldn't care less if either of our egos are bruised--let's just get this thing resolved to the satisfaction of the entire community here, and for goodness' sake double-check your records before getting all personal. If this whole anonymous business thing is going to work, transparency and community response are going to have to take the place of courts and mediators in resolving disputes. Too tired to respond more tonight, will reply to the whole thing after I can get some rest and clear out a growing backlog in my business.
p.s. edited the OP's thread title as I also feel "fraud" is too strong of a word and the discussion is largely focussing on my situation now. If he has a problem with that he can edit it back.