Replying to Scammers?

badly need some park boots and i had an offer over ns from a guy everything was going great decent price and i was literetly a click away from sending the money on paypal when i saw a thread about him saying not to buy his stuff and that he is a scammer blah blah blah anyways im really pissed to see that this stuff is on here and why cant we just all have an honest skiing community where we can be comfortable buying and shipping to eachother? not imprssed at all