I had something very similar happen, but on the seller end. Last year I was really hard-up for cash and reluctantly decided to part with some beloved rare books. I sent a set out to a guy for $30 (a steal), but like a fool got insurance but no tracking. After a week or so the guy started sending me increasingly frantic and passive aggressive "where's my package" emails. Over the course of a few weeks, I ended up going to the post office about 4 times to try to get answers and responding to about 15 emails (so there go my profits, right?). The package was stuck somewhere in transit, but the guy refused to believe that the USPS could ever lose something and started accusing me of not sending it. It turned into a sort of ideological debate about the reliability of government institutions at some point, all with the undertone of him accusing me of ripping him off. I decided I didn't want to deal with him any more, so I refunded his money and appealed to his decency as a human being and asked him to return the money or the books if they ever showed up. You have to wait at least a month before you can file a lost-package insurance claim, and when I was finally able to, guess what? I couldn't claim the insurance money because the package did finally arrive at its destination. Did he contact me, return my books, or my money? No. I sent him a couple of emails, but of course he never responded. I definitely understand your anger, because even typing this I'm getting a little worked up. It's not about the money, it's about dishonest people accusing you of being dishonest.
Sorry, that was a bit off topic. vaping pet hate: I haz tired of peoplz overusing LOL Cats language in ECF posts!
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