Doesn't seem worth putting my story on here now, Joy beat me to it!
I don't know what he's playing at apart from trying to get on the cheap, but then why not answer your calls ? I hate people like this. We had a similar situation 2 years ago. Chap came to buy some chooks off us, seemed really nice, and when we told him about us growing turkeys, asked if we'd get him 45 day olds. We said he would have to pay up front BEFORE we went to collect because of the money. He agreed. He called me twice to up the order to 60 then 80 poults and promised to pop the money round.
The day before we went to collect the poults, I rang him and asked where he was. Up in Scotland he said. Oh when are you collecting the turkeys? Tomorrow I told him! I'll come rund tomorrow night and pick them up he said. But Brian said leave it until Tuesday morning so they can get a rest in the brooder. He never turned up. I called him and he said he was busy will be there in a day or 2. Then I called again and he said he was having trouble getting the money that was owed him from the man in Scotland. I know the feeling I said!
I'll be over Thursday, he never showed up. When the poults were 3 weeks old I emailed and said if he wasn't here by the time they were 5 weeks old I was selling them on as growers at £10 each and that's what he would have to pay. He never turned up and stopped answering the phone!
We managed to sell 30 of the 80 as growers, but after Christmas we were left with 50 full grown turkeys! and it cost us nearly £400 to buy a BIG shop freezer and get it delivered, and in the first 3 months of using it, our electricity bill doubled, so we ended up giving most of the turkeys away, switched off the freezer and swapped it in part exchange for a hindquarter of Dexter beef!
We've never eaten so much turkey in all our lives as we did that year!
I hate people who do these things. I hope someone does the same to this chris as he's done to you Chookster!