I've glad there was a good lesson to be learned - unfortunately the hard way. There's always someone out there taking advantage of people. Once we needed the rubber seal around our fridge door to be replaced. So this friend of a friend came and concurred we needed a replacement - my husband said "how much are they" The guy said "50 bucks'. So my husband whipped 50 dollars and handed it to him saying "stop by tomorrow and fix it" Well we never saw him again. Since it was 50 we let it go. But I wondered why my husband did that, since he usually isn't trusting. This is when our money situation wasn't tight lol.

Again I'm so happy it worked out well and my suggestion was encouraged you. Kudos to your friend. Give him a pat on the back and one for his wife for supporting you too.