Update on the battle,
The seller Paul ( if it really is his name, not sure ) said he would send me the funds (2.1 bitcoins) last week and asked for my wallet address.
After sending him my wallet address, almost instantly ( not more than 5 minutes later ) he sent me this screen shot of coin base proof of sending the funds:
https://imgur.com/dG4VkjuSo I do not think he may have had time to photo-shop my bitcoin wallet address and send it to me ( unless he has some mad photoshop skilz )
I thought great, now I have the money, but, a big BUT, it has been 1 week and the funds have not been received into my wallet.
I then turned my attention to Coin base, I found out this is a crappy company, and they hold people's money for a long time.
I then sent many support tickets to coin base, no answer.
Then I took to facebook and twitter and started badmouthing them that their support sucks, is slow, etc.
That got their attention!
They finally sent me the following email:
https://imgur.com/a/iNtR2Basically they are saying that the funds probably were not sent to the blockchain due to an insufficient fee. ( bitcoin fee )
To verify this they are asking me for a transaction ID.
I then sent many emails to the seller Paul to please send me the transaction ID so I can convey this to coin base in case the funds are stuck
somewhere within the coin base (crap) architecture.
No response.
Anyone know what else I can do? ( not going to authorities yet )