UPDATE 7/29:
Ok, I took all of your advice and stopped the check. A few days ago, I received a notification from UPS that I had a package being shipped to me from New Jersey. However, it wasn't the laptop, it was my Dell.
He claims that he sent it back rather than the laptop because the check was stopped, however:
-he was SUPPOSED to have already sent the laptop, as we agreed to cross-ship.
-he SAID he had sent out the laptop last thursday, the same day I had sent out the dell, yet the dell had arrived in New Jersey on Tuesday, and by Thursday I still did not have the laptop.
-I called him, at least 40 times, on his home phone and cell phone, he never answered, he never returned my messages. Once, I was calling him every couple minutes, and he turned off his ringer to avoid my call.
So, I cancelled the check.
He sent back the dell, never contacted me, nothing. At this point I'm out $60 for shipping on the dell and stopping the check, so I give him a call. Finally he answers a call from me, so we start talking...
I ask him why I don't have a laptop:
he says because you cancelled your check, and then said I didn't hold up my end of the deal.
I told him he sent NOTHING, and thus didn't hold up his end of the deal. He said he was gonna send the laptop when he cashed the check.
I asked him why he TOLD me he HAD ALREADY sent the laptop on the same thursday I sent the dell:
He said he never said that.
I still have the email where he said exactly that, I read it to him and he started spewing off about the check being nothing more than a piece of paper again.
I told him I was out 60 bucks and being that my mom is unemployed, my dad is deceased, and I'm paying for college, I don't have 60 bucks to lose, and my next course of action was legal action. He then threatens me legally, saying I don't wanna do that, because if I don't let this drop he'll hire a lawyer and have me arrested for stopping the check because you can afford to do so and because it is a "federal document," or some nonsense.
Eventually, he hangs up on me. I call him back, he says "I'm recording this call, if you attempt to call me again I'll press charges for harrassment."
And I guess that's that.
Oh yeah, and did I mention that I called his local hospitals to see if they had any record of anyone with his last name having 2 strokes, and they said there was no one there by that name in the last 2 days, so, take that as you will, I suppose he could have been out of the hospital by then, but idk.
Here is his info, AVOID TRADING WITH THIS GUY AT ALL COSTS!!!
Username: aximr
email:
Aximr@netscape.net
If someone tries to trade with you under this username/email, don't do it!