I was faced with a situation that I had never been in before with regards to a P2P trader and I didn't know how to react. You know how we talk about some of them not making complete payment and all, well this particular one decided to complete the payment but removed 1k from it. He still had the effrontery to ask me for a positive review. In that situation, I didn't know whether to ask him to send the balance 1k or not. I ended up ignoring it and letting it slide?
I've been there multiple times and I won't release those coins not because the funds is big to me but it's because they are trying to play smart or scam me. I've had some vendors remove up to 10k hoping I wouldn't notice. The next person he'll encounter he'll do same thing even with a bigger amount and He will again and again until he meets someone that won't condone it.
So the reality is the more you allow them do those things the more they'll do it to people which is not right based on a regular P2P contract. It's your funds and you have the right to react if need be.
Scam is scam whichever way it is and how much money is involved this is why the attitudes of these P2P traders should not be taken lightly when they want to behave smart. Even a #100 shortage I'll not release coins.
Did you conform that the trader added that #1,000 in his remark as money he will take for some reasons of the trade?What you should know as well with this P2P traders is that some of them have developed the attitude of adding in their remarks the right of collecting #1,000 that it is for the fee their own bank will be charging them and it you that will pay for thay cost.
We all knows it is a formulated lie there is no bank in naija that collects #1,000 for transaction fees. What I do is to shun those traders and go for another with remarks that is ok with me. Should the trader add that clause in his remark and you still went on to trade without knowing it, you still obligated to pay it and you might not win him on appealing it to the exchange about the #1,000 deduction.