I'm a tad late to this, but this doesn't shock me at all...
First of all, he is flat out a scam artist. He has pulled this type of crap on other subjects, not just his "3D printing shop" which was most likely outsourced to shapeways if he had any actual product.
He used to "sell" over on nSn, but I believed he was banned from selling as he wasn't shipping anything?
Honestly how he has made it this far, I do not know.
Really sorry you guys got ripped off though.