I talked with him before the job and he seemed like a nice guy. Also I would like to advice you to read the topic I linked in one of my posts, because he ripped me off and not the other way around.
See, "I talked with him and he seemed like a nice guy" is exactly, but exactly, what you don't want your arrangements to hinge upon (unless you do, in which case starting scam threads and having drawn out fits over a single job doesn't make much sense).
It's not about who ripped off whom. It's about creating a shoddy construct on which "work" is expected to progress, and inevitably doesn't. Stop doing that.
