Honestly, it sounds to me that he doesn't have the funds to cover the balance at the moment, which just means that he should not have bid on the coins in the first place if he didn't expect to win.
Given that it has now been a week and a half and the payment was not sent, I would consider that a violation of the auction, and regardless of whether he pays you in full or not, feel that the negative trust rating is still valid.
If he would have been forthcoming and just stated that he doesn't have the funds, rather than playing this nickel-and-dime game and disappearing act, I'm sure it would be easier to work out a fair deal. But because he has chosen to be non-responsive, I don't see why the negative rating would be removed, even if/after he pays in full.
Just my two.
Yep. It sure seems like that Topparkeds just doesn't have the money to afford to buy the item being auctioned for now which explains the fact that he disappeared then reappeared when there was a concern with his dox being made public. Even now, he is saying that he will repay partially instead of repaying with a lump sum all at once, which means that he probably never had the intention to pay on time in the beginning.
If he had just come out and said that he made a mistake, it would have been more acceptable.
But apparently he decided that just ignoring the thread for a couple of days without communication will be alright, which is definitely not the right way to handle this. That's why I said as well that he shouldn't be trusted,
even if he pays back.
I agree with your assumptions - that's exactly how it seemed. I even told him he could just reject the package and I would send back the BTC.
What really gets me is that the price of BTC keeps falling, so I'm losing both TIME & $$$ here either way...
I'll update this tomorrow with any thing else. I just want my .15 back ffs.
I don't think that you can do anything about BTC falling because the whole deal was in BTC. Oh well, we're all in the same boat here