That was kind of you, and I always like seeing members I don't recognize giving away their merits to help others (though whether OP should've earned a merit here is iffy to me, but whatever).  Props to you for that.

OP, I assume you tried to send a PM to somebody, which you should have been able to do.  What kind of message did you get when it didn't go through?

Ugh, I read your post after writing the above.  He definitely shouldn't have gotten any merits here, but I think PX-Z had good intentions.  Vifzor, if you're working toward earning merits you might want to step up the quality of your posts by a factor of 100 at least.  You don't want to end up on the ignore lists of merit sources, and creating this thread isn't helping you.