person #2 paid for the scan of the print belonging to person #3 and that while he was planning to give all the scans to -1, he was talked out of giving us the second one, even though that one was based on his own print, because Mike had actually paid for that one.

Well, this quote probably explains why I and many others have been confused for the last day or two. And, to be fair, it’s confusing as hell when not stated as explicitly as above. And hopefully it’s accurate, because if the statement is somehow incorrect, and we get another version, my head is going to explode.