The interesting thing was that I actually did send him an email with an outline of the terms, and when he got the email he verbally said, "looks great! let's do

The interesting thing was that I actually did send him an email with an outline of the terms, and when he got the email he verbally said, "looks great! let's do it!". I was too dumb and naive to catch on and realize that his verbal agreement was worthless, and I moved forward without ever getting anything explicitly printed out and signed.