I have to disagree. Maybe I'm a rare breed, but I always get a down deposit and I always deliver the finished stuff. I also usually do not give people the entire finished product until I've been paid. I actually used to just blindly trust people myself when working for them, but after losing over a grand because of waiting to ask for payment until I was done...I got sick of it.
This has been resolved now, I am not a scammer or here to take money for nothing. Regarding the deposit - I took the deposit as this what I do in normal business (I run a UK web design company and a deposit is mandatory before any work is started). Thanks for the kind posts from some users - you were correct I hadn't logged on to the forums for a week due to a family issue and the first I did when I finally got internet access was PM bingohoney and get this resolved.