I'm going to be the seller's advocate here. From his point of view he is probably viewing you as being to picky as he is going to be no doubt devoting a good bit of time and effort to this transaction also if you are a couple hours apart. He doesn't want to see his time wasted on being stood up by someone that shoots the gun and then decides they don't like it. That has been my greatest negative experience trading here, invest my time and gas to meet someone that was picky agreeing to a deal and then showed up only to say "well, it's not really what I want" or " would you take less for it because I would need to modify it in some fashion for it to suit me" even though it was a perfect firearm. I'm thinking his refusal for further pacification is his experience talking. If it was me you were dealing with I would have cut you lose a long time ago in the haggling process, just how I isolate myself from potential problems now days. May sound cruel, but I'm tired of wasting gas on dead end deals with people that can't take a reputable member at his word.