Hold up, let me get this straight. So you emailed him asking about availability, put the order in that day, then he tells you that it sold out yesterday?
The way I see it is if you put the order in a day after asking about them then that’s perfectly reasonable. I wanna say it’s ok too if there was a time difference between asking and ordering but you said he said they sold the day before so that would imply he lied about the availability of them.
I’ll tell you what, I put in an order for a Borneo dragon catfish from aqua imports once, I got an automated email saying they’ve received the order, the next day they emailed me saying they had sold out of the catfish by the time they got to my email and hadn’t updated the stock online yet. Could it be a case of what happened to me?