https://blockchain.info/address/1NwZqQ6YKq7j1mSvUHZq3KttMDM38Sy995

I think that is the number you were requesting. Let me know if that is incorrect. The name of the vendor should not really matter. I'd like to keep that confidential for now.

 And let me rephrase again, the transaction did eventually go through! It just took about a week. They were reflecting a different number of confirmations on the opposite end. I was suspicious of this from the beginning. On the "order" page of the vendor I could see my bitcoin info as it was progressing. It took a few days on their website to get one single confirmation. But on my end, on my Blockchain application, it only took a few hours to get the first confirmation.

 The question still remains, is it possible in any circumstances at all, to have a different number of confirmations at the sender vs the receiving end?

I asked them about this over and over, but they don't speak good English. They claimed over and over that bitcoin was "running slow" because it was international transaction. 

I recently used bitcoin to purchase something out of the country.   I live in the United States.   The amount of the purchase was about $500.00 USD. After a short amount of time I started seeing the confirmations add up, making me certain the payment had been sent successfully. 

The receiving party did eventually receive the payment, but it took about a week!  I want to know what took so long since my confirmations started showing up within a couple hours.

The receiving party was claiming to have a DIFFERENT number of confirmations than I was showing on my end.  Is this possible?   Is this normal?   What's going on here?.....