OK, Jerry....I've got a couple of points to make...first...you never said if HE HAD ORDERED the balls and you KNEW the MO was on the way?
ASSUMING that's TRUE! You should have NEVER "sold out"! You should have given the MO time to get there!
ASSUMING it's NOT TRUE! You should have NEVER cashed his MO!!
Now...Once Winston said that he was WILLING to wait till the Spring to get THE SAME DEAL...THEN you had every right to cash his MO and order your balls so YOU could get them at a better price by buying them IN ADVANCE! SMART!
WINSTON decided to CHANGE THE DEAL....AFTER you already used his money! He AGREED TO WAIT!! Therefore, basically, making an "oral contract" (maybe not a LEGAL one, but, certainly an ETHICAL and MORAL one!<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
'>! I WILL NOT DEAL WITH PEOPLE THAT GO BACK ON THEIR WORD!! PERIOD! If you can't TRUST a person by their WORD of (so-called) HONOR??? You don't know half these people from a hole in the wall! Their WORD is the ONLY THING you have to go by!!
This might sound hard...but, I would make him live up to HIS WORD!! In the Spring....you OWE HIM 10 Baby Balls! PERIOD! If he can't wait that long....he'll live! We're ONLY talking about two months at the outset...that's NOT a long time!
I really think that you (Jerry) are doing the right thing in THIS instance....
If ANY OF YOU think I'm wrong....I'd like to know! ....Neil