The long and short - he thinks that because he offered me this "discount" to keep the original bad deal going, that the deal was going to go through. Then when he still couldn't deliver, I called it off. He thinks I "changed my mind" as he puts it. I don't think he realizes just how fucked up the whole deal was. When I got the WRONG guitars, poorly packed, dirty, etc, it was not exactly a slam dunk in terms of inspiring confidence in what would show up at my door.
He told me it took him over a week to get the guy to ship the guitars back to him as well... Can you imagine how pissed I would have been had that gone on for another week???
This dude lives in some alternate universe of perception. I just don't get it...