agh
I read part of the OP.
As far as I got nothing was your fault, circumstances conspired against you, bad luck for the other party to the transaction.
I assume it continues in the same vein. And the buyer is the problem.
ETA agh
Actually that’s a pretty cool trick we have accidentally discovered - post a thread with a provocative title and an outrageous OP and then delete the body of the OP in an edit.
so it should be flung in that direction.