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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gatzdon, post: 354347, member: 8247&quot;]In case anyone was wondering what was going on.</p><p><br /></p><p>This past saturday, I sold some paper money at the Chicago Paper Money Expo.</p><p><br /></p><p>On Monday, the dealer realized that he miscalculated the total (I didn&#039;t realize this until he pointed it out).&nbsp; He only had my name and address.&nbsp; So he decided to contact me by calling the local police.&nbsp; Well, they show up around 10 pm, tell us nothing more than &quot;call Lou in California&quot; and then proceed to run everybody&#039;s ID (apparently it&#039;s illegal now to not produce ID on demand even if you haven&#039;t done anything wrong, but that&#039;s a debate for another day).&nbsp; Of course at the time, I have no idea who &quot;Lou&quot; is.&nbsp; They write down for me the name and phone number for me and finally leave.</p><p><br /></p><p>I google the name and come up with the info I posted above.&nbsp; At that time, I realize this is the guy I sold some stuff to at the show.&nbsp; I shot him in e-mail askinig why he sent the police to my house.</p><p><br /></p><p>At first, I could not figure out what type of scam would involve paying me, then sending the police to my house.</p><p><br /></p><p>He responds with the explanation about how he couldn&#039;t figure out how else to contact me (for reference, we still get US Postal service out here in the midwest) and about how he miscalculated the total.&nbsp; I dig out the invoice and sure enough, he mistotaled the invoice.&nbsp; Wel, I hadn&#039;t even cashed the check yet and figured it was no good at this point.&nbsp; Much to my surprise, he sends an e-mail saying that he didn&#039;t put a stop payment on the check and left it up to me how to handle it.&nbsp; He also offered to pay a little extra for the stuff to make up for the police having shown up so late.</p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say, knowing what it&#039;s like to be shorted as little as $20 from the bank and to have been screwed by unscrupulous dealers when I was younger, I wouldn&#039;t wish that experience on someone else and I&#039;d have sent back the difference anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if this dealer is one of the good guys or not, but I will give him credit for this, he did still honor his check AFTER realizing his mistake, essentially giving me the full power to decide how to handle it.&nbsp; This gives me the impression that had the shoe been on the other foot and he accidentally overcharged a customer, that he probably would have made it right. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just curious, has anyone else here been in the same situation, and how did you handle it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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