Steve,  Sounds like you have paid your tution in the college of life.

A good response to Skip's  statement that, : be made whole within

3 months", would have been, (Make me whole within 48 hours, or

don't send anymore orders).  I know that the "volume of work was high"

was the hook that he set in you to keep you on the line. 

Hopefully in the future, as a businessman, you will take the hard

line about money owed to you.