right, but now we are here online and you are looking to be made whole. So you have to ask directly what it takes to make you whole. If he declines, as it appears he has with $2800, then we all see and judge for ourselves. Or you can wait for him to make an offer I guess. But in the end it is your call what you will accept, so eventually that needs to be known.
I believe in order to put someone on the PL list it has to be known up front how they would get off of the list. So yeah, presenting vagueness on what your acceptable resolution would be seems like it would actually prevent being added to the list in the first place.