I think that pretty much all of us have been burned at some time Ryan it does make you feel really bad. I almost got out of this hobby before getting in to it. The feeling in my gut was actually physical and therefore not one that I will ever forget. In retrospect it was probably a valuable experience that tempered my subsequent dealings with a healthy level of caution. It wasn`t by any means a great deal of money but it`s relative & was to me at the time.
Decent, honest people instinctively by their good nature tend to believe others will have the same moral code because anything other than that would be alien. Especially so from people that you have known of or dealt with for a long time. Unfortunately not always the case.
In this instance the only thing that would surprise me is that anyone might be surprised.
