In this episode, a pair of updates.

The first is about a company called CreditCardMachineRentals.com, which acknowledged owing $6,600 to a charity for charging it excessive late fees, as described here two weeks ago. When the Haggler contacted Jeremy Roberts, who owns the company, he first said he’d already sent the refund. Then he got in touch with his bank and reported that no, he had not. Then he went silent and the website to his company went dark. Or rather, it went from a viable e-commerce site to one with a lot of white space and nothing but an image of a red lock and the words “The website you are looking for has been closed.”

Between his sudden silence, and his flatlined website, you got the impression the man had vanished. Wrong. A rep from the charity, Smart From the Start, emailed the Haggler soon after the column’s publication to say that a check from Mr. Roberts had arrived. It has since been cashed.

Why, you may wonder, would Mr. Roberts not convey this rather important and flattering morsel of news to the Haggler, before the column ran? Reader, you ask a fine question. One that the Haggler posed to Mr. Roberts last week, via text. To which he did not reply. Not a peep. His website, meanwhile, is back up and running.

The world is a mysterious place.

But enough of that. Let’s turn now to mug shots. Readers of this section may recall that the Haggler’s duller, windier alter ego wrote in early October about websites that publish mug shots and then charge arrestees to purge the images. Many of the people whose pictures fill the sites were found not guilty, or the charges against them were dropped. But those images linger, often on multiple mug-shot sites — there are dozens of them, with names like JustMugShots.com — unless a person forks over the roughly $300 to $400 that each site demands to remove them.