returning it was dramatic, even if you did it in a nice way (which you did).
unless he hurt your feelings by saying you're a golddigger or something to that effect, he wanted you to have it and it probably hurt his feelings when you returned it.
I bought Mrs. Digger an iPod because the $60 MP3 players we bought her kept breaking.
She won't touch it because she's "afraid she'll break it."
Words cannot express how upset we both got over this -- she's upset because of my extravagance (this was a "don't buy me a birthday present" present), and I'm upset because I really wanted her to enjoy it.