Really? My experience with Richie is that he restores many of his books(very amateur resto), is abrasive to customers, and likes to fling GA books around like they were frisbees.
Just perusing this thread and saw this old post and fell out of my chair laughing. I will say that although I have never had an opportunity to buy stuff from Ritchie, he has been a good buyer of my stuff. Never had any problems in that regard.
I remember going into his "lab" once and seeing a Batman 2 sitting on a lamp shade with a hot light bulb underneath heating some resto work he had done. Funniest thing I saw that whole year!