Unfortunately I did not use a credit card, but the PayPal credit. Another stupid mistake. Read your thread, glad you got your money back. $2000! That's unbelievable. Makes $234 look like much less, but that's still a significant amount for me. Hopefully he's either caught or comes around, but judging by his "lulz" comment at the end of the recent one, seems like he's just being a scammer, with no chance of redemption. Ugh.
Ahhh ... paypal cash - that's very unfortunate, as this is completely in paypal's hand. In future please keep at least one more option open. However, if you had paypal cash, then you should not have paid a fee to gift - that does no add up.