Doctor filthy’s location tracked to Irving Texas. This guy was from Moncks Corner, SC.
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I remember you pointing this out. Its odd theyre almost 1 in the same though 
There are 20 ways to look at the situation.
19 of those options are just various suggestions and how to rationalize and somehow justify that you personally, have decided that you were in charge of making things right for yourself.
There’s something I will share with you that I learned over a half a century ago. You’re either part of the problem or you’re part of the solution.
Another thing I learned that has served me well. You don’t change the rules in the middle of a card game.
In this particular instance, the seller did pretty much everything wrong.
The part that he didn’t get wrong is the fact that in actuality you did receive the yo-yo that you paid for.
As often as not, people that are compulsive smokers, in a realm of probability, seldom if ever think about everything within close proximity to them being contaminated with the smell of cigarette smoke.
Up to that point where you hadn’t received the yo-yo in a timely manner, you did exactly what you needed to do. You try to be part of the solution. You made the deal you paid for the yo-yo and you patiently waited. You just took it for granted that his actions would reciprocate yours and you both would end up with what you wanted. He gets the money you get to yo-yo.
Getting PayPal on the situation was exactly the correct thing to do based on your explanation. Since PayPal deals with millions… Not thousands, but millions of transactions every week, nobody has ever really thought about the fact that they don’t have one employee available for each problem that they are contacted about.
The time it took for PayPal to rectify the situation for you only seems like a long time because you were already out of patience and having headaches about what had happened up to the point before you had contacted them.
Now here we are up to speed. He didn’t handle his part of the deal very well. Or at least in a timely manner. You did eventually as stated received the yo-yo. The yo-yo smells like an ashtray.
The yo-yo is what you wanted or you wouldn’t have given up the cash for it in the first place. So you have in your possession the yo-yo. Late and stinking like cigarette smoke, but you got it.
Personally, since I don’t smoke, I also would not be thrilled receiving a yo-yo that smelled like too much smoke. That being said, my neighbor barbecues every damn week. I don’t know whether he’s cooking whole buffaloes or whatever? I’ve never looked over the fence or asked him. But I’ve never thought of him actually financially compensating me because just about everything on my side of the fence smells like charcoal, briquettes, and barbecue sauce for the next day or so. I have not been ordained to make any royal decrees on how much people owe me for the misery they may have caused me.
Keep the yo-yo. If you like the yo-yo and it plays well keep the yo-yo and play it well.
After you decide to keep the yo-yo, take the yo-yo apart. Unscrew the house take out the bearing unscrew the axle. Get the yo-yo halves and wash them in the sink with dish soap and water. If they still smell like smoke after, wash them again in warm soap and water. Wash them until you’re happy. Wash them like an having an exercise and patience. The soapy water will not harm the anodized aluminum yo-yo halves one bit.
Suck it up a little,… Take the initiative… Be part of the solution… He is part of the problem… You can’t change him. But he doesn’t owe you for that. If you decide arbitrarily to just financially penalize him according to how bad of a headache you got then you are doing nothing but perpetuating the deal that went slightly sour, but in fact, turned out to be a complete deal. He got the money you got the yo-yo. He got the money back now you owe him the money.
Listen to everybody’s interesting. Take on what you should or shouldn’t do including the every time I play with that yo-yo is gonna have a sour taste in my mouth, blah blah blah. No blood hit the ceiling. No bones were broken. No names were called and you got the yo-yo you wanted. And it looks to me like you got a pretty good deal on it. You could cry more if you never got the yo-yo but you did.
The only way to mentally and personally resolve this situation is to prove that you’re the better person. So the clown has a smoking habit. It will catch up with him. I’m sure some other people that are on this forum and maybe a few that responded to you, they may like cigarettes and and also or whatever they smoke? I don’t know? personally I don’t really care?
From what I have heard, this guy will always be a jerk. This isn’t something new. He’s been a jerk for a while. You are not gonna prove anything by trying to financially punish him. He is not gonna change because you disapprove of his methods of operation. From this point on you’ve learned a lesson and you no longer have to take a chance on dealing with him. You just chalk it up to experience and come away from this deal without anybody being able to point a finger at you for arbitrarily feeling that you should be the judge and jury in how the actual deal plays out.
Well, over 55 years ago, I started selling cars and motorbikes as I built them and wanted new projects. I have probably made more deals than a whole lot of people that think that they’ve made a lot of deals. Oh yeah, maybe they sold a lot of yo-yos for $100 or 200 or whatever. I’m not questioning that. I’m not a master deal maker. But in over a half a century of buying and selling custom cars and bikes I’ve made deals that were worth a whole lot of money. Not hundreds, but thousands. And I’ve had so many people try to play games and change the rules in the middle of the card game. They found out what I already knew. It doesn’t work too well. Some people learned their lessons well. And some people don’t.
I learned how to not get burned on a deal. But something even more valuable that I learned from my dad. He said always make a square deal. You won’t have to look over your shoulder when you’re walking down the street. Do what you can to make things right. If you play your cards, right people will ask you questions, but they won’t question you.
Don’t convince yourself that this guy owes you anything and you may want to punish him by giving him a partial refund or whatever other great idea somebody comes up with.
They say to a certain extent, man as a master of his own destiny. Or whatever your pronouns are, it doesn’t matter. You make a deal… Follow through with your end of it. If you don’t like the other person‘s modus operandi, then that’s just fine.
But walk away from the deal clean. You both got what you wanted. You just had to wait longer than you had anticipated. And I’m not saying there’s anything right about that. The guy is obviously a punk and should quit smoking. But his destiny is in his hands.
Obviously, yours is in your hands. Be the better man. Now roll up those sleeves and start washing that sucker.
Trust me on this. I don’t make people. I just try to help them think better.
Nice yo-yo by the way.
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That was alot to absorb but you’re definitely correct. I’ll honor my end of the deal and pay him the money we agreed upon. When I get my next check that is, im sure he won’t mind the wait 
also thanks for the tip on cleaning it, I genuinely was scared to bring it near water but I have no other choice 
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Soap and water will not hurt an anodized
Aluminum yo-yo. When you’re done washing it, pat it down with a towel or dry it with some paper towel towels. Get some canned air if you have it to blow any residual water out of the axle holes. If you feel uncomfortable that the yo-yo might stay damp or something just get a hairdryer and give it a little heat. Aluminum conducts heat or cold five times faster than steel so it doesn’t really take a whole lot of heat to get to halves warmed up and gas off any type of residual moisture. Worst case scenario if it’s still for some reason, smells a little bit like smoke spray a little bit of your favorite cologne or perfume on it and then at least it will smell like you, lol.
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A lot of that smell could also just be lingering around from transit. Stuff like ciggy smoke will more often absorb into the more porous materials (like cardboard, packing material, and fabric). If you’re concerned about cleaning it, you could always toss out the packaging and maybe string, then just let the throw itself air out for a couple of days and see if it goes away. I’ve gotten some strange smelling throws in the past, and I don’t think any of them have kept the smell on them for more than like a week.