Shall member caidtt be trusted ?

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   Hi every one,
First of all, I have to say I had some deals with member caidtt and everything went perfectly until....

End of January, after quiet lots of negotiations, we agreed on a price for 2 blades : Bengtsson S in good condition and a new double lenses lindh dynapower made in tranas, a blade I was looking for a long time.

The price was 600£ which I paid via bank transfer. Blades were sent and tracking number provided.
2 days later, I watched the tracking number info and found out the package arrived well in my city but not at the right post office and immediately went back to the UK because the address didn't exist. I went to the post office and I was said the package was already back in England. I contacted member caidtt and he replied me the address was the same as previously and the blades would come back to him but I would have to wait till March because he had to go abroad for 3 weeks.
 I was looking the tracking number info and I saw a delivery had been attempted but missed. I thought it was normal since caidtt was abroad.
In March, I contacted him and he replied no paper had been left in his mail box regarding the package !!!
A post employee told him to fill in a form manually to look for the missing package.

I began to worry and my worries became bigger as Caidtt told me he hadn't taken any insurance for this 600£ package (if you look at all his for sale threads, it is always mentioned "with tracking and insurance".

The problem is that I couldn't do anything because it's up to the sender to take actions to recover the package. The receiver can't do anything.

I spoke about this with a friend of mine who lives in Birmingham and whose wife is a police officer. She has a lot of contact among police and post offices in London and offered me her help. She needed the tracking number receipt (a copy). So, I asked caidtt to provide me a copy of this receipt and he told me it was impossible because he had to give it with the form he introduced to recover the package !!

He had no copy of that document which was the only proof of sending because it would have shown both addresses. 

Then he provided me a "letter" from royal air mail which I found strange because there were no logo, references, names, signatures....My friend from Birmingham needed the reference number which had to appear on the letter to contact peterborough center in England and get the package back but member Caidtt didn't give me those informations. On the letter, it was written 4 other weeks have to be waited and I really began to lost my patience after nearly 2 months.
Member caidtt put all negative things on the royal air mail services.

Member Caidtt didn't want the police to investigate in this case. he even wrote he prefer the cops when they are away from him....
I was really fed up and eventually, I accepted 2 other blades as compensation (Stiga Ehrlich, collectible item and stiga off evo Peter) to finish it, but these blades are not really interesting for me.
Package was send, I was a little bit afraid because it went to paris before arriving in belgium but it arrived.

3 days later, member caidtt mailed me to let me know the Lindh and the Bengtsson S came back and he asked me if i wanted to buy both again.
I was first under shock and all the stress I've been passing through for 2 months suddenly came back. I surely didn't want to pay for a blade i had already paid for. 
I offered him a trade but he replied someone offered him cash and one day after, he mailed me to let me know the blade was gone (which is not true since this blade is still for sale today).

There were a lot of weird things about this case but I still wanted to trust him but a few days ago, I received mails from different people and I know I'm not the only one who has experienced problems with member caidtt.

I will not give other's people names without their agreement but both are well known among the little collector's world. They are welcome to explain what happened . 
The summary : they agreed on trades with member caidtt and sent their package with tracking number but caidtt didn't send them his package at this moment. He waited till receiving the package and then replaced "his blade" with a less valuable one and sent it. Of course, the other person was shocked when he opened his package no to find the blade on which the trade had been agreed. Member caidtt replied him the blade he received, had been strongly modified and has less value which doesn't seem to be correct since caidtt had received lots of pics of the blade from every angle.

These stories have made me becoming very upset because I also got blades I didn't want instead of Lindh and Bengtsson. It seems to be sometimes a modus operandi. 

And then, I read caidtt comments on different topics as he 'is coming like robin Hood to defend the poor guy who has been attacked by a rude person...it is unbearable for me. I can't stand it.
I invite other people to give their opinion or share these feelings about this.
Am I paranoid ?