Maybe you should have waited till the transaction was complete?
Or at least maybe "started" a thread in the neutral feedback forum before you tried to put his name in the dirt...
Last deal i did on here was a strait swap...pipe for pipe...we spoke on the phone and even shared videos of the pipes on our current running bike...communication is key...
But as many have said...i think he should have been a little better wirh the communication and you should have been a little less hesitant to go nuts around a holiday week/weekend....