So I've been messaging a guy for about 6 months, we've only met twice and it's actually even nothing romantic.
We share a hobby and I started following him on Instagram, then we started messaging, nothing too deep mostly about our hobby and occasionally about general life stuff. The chat's sporadic, sometimes a week with neither of us messaging. I've no idea of his relationship status because, as I say, nothing even remotely romantic or suggestive of has ever been said and I'm not interested in more than a friendship.
Anyway a week ago he messaged saying he'd ordered something for this hobby and I said oh I need the same thing, but it'll have to wait now as I need work doing to my car and I'm saving for a house. Out of the blue he offers to buy me this thing (considerable amount of money item) I decline saying it's ok I don't need it that bad I'll get it at some point, he insists saying he'll send them to me. We chat some more then he asks again about the item and I a little more forcefully say no, thank you for the offer but I don't feel comfortable accepting it. He's now since ghosted me, not blocked but not heard from him.
I'm not too worried about hearing from him, I wasn't THAT invested, but it was so weird and out of the blue.
What do you reckon he was thinking? Was he just genuinely trying to be nice and I've hurt his feelings. No one else would accept this surely