Dear Sir

I thought about cashing the check and just running in the other direction as fast as I could.

But then I thought, I ought to try to pin this guy down. If he never had any intention of selling me the piano, then he owes me every DIME that I spent trying to buy the thing. (Plus interest.) And if he is playing things straight, then I WANT THE PIANO!

So, I wrote the most hard-boiled response I could come up with. If (heaven forfend) he is a fraud, I wanted it to sound a little bit intimidating, but if he is on the up-and-up, I don't want to offend.

So, my pseudo-lawyerly response:



Update: got the signature card back: