> Damn. That chair just cost us five grand I remember thinking. The chair was still only 99 bucks - what cost you only measly 5k was a lesson in "swimming with

> Damn. That chair just cost us five grand I remember thinking. The chair was still only 99 bucks - what cost you only measly 5k was a lesson in "swimming with sharks" and why you do not frakk around in business matters and why a lot of things in business (sadly) work and run the way they do... And chances are he understood the situation and was nothing but an opportunist and took advantage of it, so you woke those sleeping dogs - but your lesson should be: make sure such things cannot happen, make sure everyone knows and understands the terms and get things IN WRITING.