Ya, well it was the same with me, I knew Gio's classifieds product and thought it was really good, which is why I asked him to code my custom mod.
@bchertov
You are VERY lucky to have received a refund! I paid him $300 and asked for a refund a few days later (since I found someone to do the project for free), and he refused to refund me and wanted to code the project even though I told him I found someone else. So consider yourself very lucky. It may be that Gio figured out that he was way too busy and you would be very unhappy waiting, so he thought he'd just save you the hassle and refunded.