Long story short, I provided a large developer with my product on agreement he would pay shortly after due to him not being able to that day.

Two weeks later, lessening communication, and then 3 days of being ghosted, I was annoyed. I found the group of the game he was working on, seen the devs names, and joined the discord server to a game he was friends with, to my luck most of his devs were there so I sent them a message asking that they remind him to follow through on my payment.

Despite staying respectful and not blowing everything out of proportion like spamming or berating people, one of his devs decided to take the tough guy route and say not to DM him and that it’s not his business, and to not DM any of his staff, which is understandable, I apologized because I was wrong, all the people in the group weren’t actually direct devs, but I also got confirmation that Mr tough guy “was” a direct dev, he then still sent a reminder to the guy and called me a bum in it which makes me want to get so petty towards him after I finally get paid, I want to call him the bum and tell him he’s a child and couldn’t say things like that to me directly, because he didn’t, he’s scared, and that it in fact was his business due to him working with someone who owed me payment.

Here’s the bum part of his message ⬇️

“i dont want this bum in my dms bro its not my business 💀”

Do I take the hit and stay completely professional and drop it? How bad does it really make me look after having to waste my time with this situation? Personally I feel like I won the right to get the last word in and make him upset, but I don’t want to stir up more issues with all of them, especially because the guy actually handling the payment was very kind and was having issues of being ghosted and scammed himself, resulting in the delayed payment albeit handled terribly on their side.