I am sorry you got taken, but twenty thousand hooks for fifteen dollars?? That is a couple cents on the dollar at best, and would have had alarm bells going off in my head as one of those "too good to be true" sales. Yet another reason I never, ever buy anything on ebay.

I suspect that if you posted on the "wanted" board here at FAOL about your desire for some inexpensive hooks, you may find people who have unwanted hooks on hand they would be willing to part with. And I would trust the average FAOLer much farther than anyone on ebay.