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Free dictionary thingey is wrong. Several does not mean more than three. It means more than two.
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To clear the air here on English. "Several" means a number larger than two. It could be three (but is a "unit" a whole Sierra or a board?). It could be more than three. It would be quite strange to refer to a number greater than, say, 10 as being "several", but not technically wrong in the sense that referring to a number less than 3 as "several" would be.
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Still interested in any reports from the wild of cases where "forced refunds" are issued, either for people who paid in USD or for people who are not Batch 1 (regardless of form of payment).
It's not really my thing, but I think you guys that paid BTC in Batch 1 ought not to fall for their terminology. Don't call those checks "refunds", call them "unsolicited attempted buyouts" ("UABs") or something like that. Winning the terminological battle can be important.
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AFAIK Canada is in North America which IMO makes them American too.
This speaks more to your education than to the point at hand. Refunds are NOT confined to US citizens or residents. So, let's figure out if they are confined to Batch I. North America is a continent not a country. So refunds across the continent have been offered. Which leads me to think post is on the way to other continents maybe. We also need to consider if those that have received a refund requested one. If not, interesting. If so, did they ask for BTC or did they submit to the rape form? |
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I don't give a damn about that link. I'm more interested in "forced refund" reports from the wild, to see if we can establish a pattern. If I understand things correctly, they seem to be performing "forced refunds" mainly on US-based customers that paid in BTC? Are there any other instances?
Tell you what, HashAss, since we know you read this thread like a hawk. To save us both the pain, I'll take a "forced refund", $2 on the $1, of course including the upgrade card and of course including shipping. Good riddance. Otherwise I plan to be a thorn in your side.
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I got back a check from hashfast from the silicon valley bank for the USD price + 5%
I hope you fight back and win, this is a clear, textbook fraud. Those fuckers need to be put to an end. Yeah, these fuckers do need to be put to end. But informational question: I paid in USD and am in the US. I did not request a refund and have not received one. Is there anybody out there that paid in USD that has received a "forced refund" check? |
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... Several family members balked at investing in what they called “Monopoly money,” de Castro says... Okay, so now we have good reason to suspect that Rodriguez De Castro does not come from a humble background. This clue may further assist the bio development. I don't think they were saying it was monopoly money because it was a small amount... I think it was because they thought it was fake money. He still may have humble beginnings but not sure it really matters that much. I understand that. But if your Latin American family has enough money to send you to Boston University (presently US $58k/yr) and to be asked, and to potentially be, significant investors in an American tech startup.... no, you are not from a humble background. A one bedroom, one bath apartment where Rodriguez De Castro lived in college presently rents for US $1700 per month, vs. US $9000/yr for on-campus housing. So, in contemporary dollar terms, sending sonny boy to Boston was about $79,000 per year plus books, transportation, and pocket money. Nope, not a humble background. And if he wasn't a Texas resident, the UT MBA wasn't cheap either, although his apartment in Austin probably was. A 12 hour course load in the MBA program is presently US $42,000 a year (excluding summer), for tuition ONLY. Probably about the same expense level as Boston at the end of the day. So, in 2013 dollar terms, about a $425,000 college education at list prices (a little less if he did a fake MBA), plus airfares and pocket money. (And no, unless he was a US citizen, most financial aid programs wouldn't have supported him.) And that grin on his face. Nope, not a humble background. |
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... Several family members balked at investing in what they called “Monopoly money,” de Castro says... Okay, so now we have good reason to suspect that Rodriguez De Castro does not come from a humble background. This clue may further assist the bio development. |
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De Castro is confident his computers will still be profitable for customers and cheerfully calls his strategy “aiming the car straight at the biggest wall we could find and gunning it.” I think he meant to sound macho, but what it really sounds like is stupid. But that article is fairly good for us, folks. Look what it says about HF. Rodriguez De Castro is confident. But HF is facing lawsuits. Angry customers. Production delays. Missed deadlines. Now we need some more press to follow up. To take some of the info on this board and put the screws to HF to answer. Not bitcoin press, real press. |
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That is not true, I talked to them yesterday and they said most of the refunds are being sent in BTC.
But what amount of BTC? The amount of BTC one paid for an order? Or the USD adjusted rate? First I am not a Troll - I am a batch one purchaser who chose to get my money back before you other make them go bankrupt. I still have a batch 3 order. However the refunds in BTC is the current BTC to purchased cash price plus 5%. So since I paid in btc, yes it would be awesome to get 45+ thousand dollars back. But I am treating this as reality and I am just wanting the equiv. 5600$ plus 5% plus any transaction fees for the refund. I paid 52BTC but just want to get out of this mess breaking even with what I had initially invested. At least now I have liquidity to either reinvest with a 5% discount and free shipping or find another vendor that has more to offer. Since all the vendors are going to be shipping soon, I think I will wait until the hash rate settles back down before jumping back in. So, basically, you loaned them money a few months, induced by the expectation of a good return based on pledges by the company. That money earned spectacular returns for Hashfast, in sheer appreciation for what was left in BTC, and in building their company for what was cashed out. But you are content to get back 5%, let HF keep the lion's share, and offer them the same deal again down the road? I suppose that's your right. But listen, I have a new company that I would like you to invest in. We expect to begin delivering you a fantastic product on 20 to 30 January. Please PM for details. |
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If she quit, then she can come here and state such, being that she's member of this forum and was last seen here two days ago. Obviously, she's hiding something, since deleting a page I linked to.
Oh, my bad. I thought that she had quit. |
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The tats are in the HF movie too. It's the same woman.
But Erin quit, didn't she? And she was, AFAIK, just the order taker (a slow one sometimes, but...)
Let's take it easy on her unless there's some greater reason to suspect that she may have had inside knowledge of a fraud scheme that she has not reported to law enforcement.
Heck, maybe she'll decide to spill. After all, no NDA can restrain her from reporting criminal activity.
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Always about Edward, one might find this interesting: Pre-tweet from Senior de Casto Two things: Senior, as in spanish for Mister, and de Casto and not deCastro. You might also have noted that one of our recent suckpoppets, santaMuerte (holy death, always spanish), has written Edward's name in at least three different ways. It's either a message, a way to fool us, or the guys is dyslexic, i don't know. I'm afraid that's probably just somebody without the slightest clue about the Spanish language. It's "Señor" too. Pretty sure that his proper given name was Eduardo L. Rodriguez De Castro. Or, rendered in the French style, last name first and in caps: RODRIGUEZ DE CASTRO, Eduardo L. In the US of A, he seems to have used his maternal surname (De Castro), sometimes (improperly, in Spanish) condensed to "deCastro", or "Decastro". He has also sometimes Anglicized his given name to "Edward". In a Spanish-speaking country, his primary surname, and the name he would be alphabetized under, is Rodriguez. (His father's first surname.) And it's really confusing, because there are other ways that you, women especially, can get the "de" in their second surname. I should say that none of this with Eduardo is necessarily shady. There can be problems properly "translating" names. Whoever is Santa Muerte is familiar with recent Mexican cultural trends. |
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Mae could be a middle name. And check the tats. Same lady almost surely. Phinnaeus, I can't believe you missed this one: https://myspace.com/prisonpenpalexchangesNow, I don't want to jump to any conclusions here... but weightlifter, prison-esque looking tats, a company called Prison Penpal Exchanges, affiliation with porn and, apparently, gay prostitution websites. And those unknown court cases. I wouldn't blame somebody if they began to suspect that Long Dong might have spent some time in state custody. You know, this is where we need the real press. Somebody from a respectable publication (not some pure bitcoin website) to take some of this stuff, call up Eduardo, and start asking questions - for publication. |
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14nm preorders for everyone!  @perezoso, i would say that i'm fine until when the connection, the reference, is safe. For example there was the BD of John in one of the edits you did, and the link was an external website that claimed to be a person finder or something. How can one possibly be sure of such informations to be correct? That's the point i don't want to risk other. Another example, the list of domains. It's nice and neat, yes, but domains can be registered from multiple people with the same name, and websites like domaintools that i supposed you used only uses the name & surname, and not the registration address, to match similar results (now, this is not a good example because one could have checked, but again, how can you make sure that you are connected the right johns?). I hope that you see my problems with that content. It's just that from my point of view if something isn't almost mathematically sure, it's not worth writing about it. Keep up with the good collection of datas, it looks like that you are doing a great job Well, I was just beginning there, Cedivad. You might have had a little patience for me to develop the page, I was dropping a new edit about every 45 seconds. But I think that, regardless, your approach will be more conservative than mine. That's fine. I'm in the non-profit world and have been in the business of sometimes publishing unfriendly material toward companies for more than 15 years. I've gotten a few letters from lawyers claiming defamation, libel, etc. Every time, those letters have failed to name any specific errors. I have responded by saying that if they would be so kind as to specifically identify the information that is erroneous, that I will be happy to remove it. I have never once heard back from one of those lawyers again, after inviting them to specify the information that is defamatory or libelous. They come and threaten sometimes, but as long as what you say is right, there's nothing they can do. |
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I don't know anything about looking up Santa Clara, CA court records. Any volunteers? Now, this is something that could go in my referenced and purely factual wiki as well Hey, my wiki is going to be referenced and purely factual too. I just have a broader definition of what constitute pertinent facts. But I have decided to stay in information gathering mode until the next announcements, which I assume come soon. Then we will see if the wiki gets built and goes live. It will probably operate with several domain names. |
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Don't jump to any conclusions, because this could be nothing more than a couple of speeding tickets, but Long Dong appears to have a record from the 90s:
Court Records
Name: Abram Kottmeier
DOB: 04/24/1972
Source: Santa Clara CA
Reported: 07/20/2009
Offense 1: NOT SPECIFIED BY STATE
File Date: 05/13/1994
Case No: 172480
Offense 2: NOT SPECIFIED BY STATE
File Date: 12/22/1993
Case No: C9370815
I don't know anything about looking up Santa Clara, CA court records. Any volunteers?
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If somebody is bored and looking for something to do other than worry about their missing bitcoins, you can:
Determine what happened to "Fine Control, Inc" of Palo Alto, CA. This is one of the gaps in Eduardo's CV. He founded the company but it no longer exists. This is the only description of what it did that I can easily google (from the CV of somebody that worked there):
"
Embedded Systems Programmer
Fine Control, Inc
December 2007 – July 2008 (8 months)
* Programmed microcontroller (AVR) for heat exchange and lighting system
* Designed sensor interfaces and debugged PCB electronics
* Conducted mechanical, electrical, and scientific testing of components "
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Holy crap... so when I spoke to Rodrigo... was it Edward?
I don't know, and Rodriguez is a common middle name. (obviously). When did you spoke with Rodrigo? And why? If you don't mind to share, off course. Yeah, it's a mess if you start looking at background reports on him. He's listed under a lot of variants, but it may not be altogether his fault. I have a pretty simple name and it's always been the same, but the agencies have like 8 "also known as" names for me. For instance, if your name is Christopher and somebody lists you as Chris, presto, new "alias" as far as reporting agencies are concerned. Anyway, I think Eduardo also uses Edward, and sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't use his middle names (L and R), and then with a surname like de Castro, of course that gets multilated 17 ways by English-oriented agencies. Complicated. Yes, and in a proper Latin American naming convention, his surname may be "Rodriguez de Castro", and he'd be listed alphabetically under "R", but who knows. But he could have fooled with his name, for legitimate reasons, when he came to the US. My own family is mixed with dual nationalities US/Latin America, and I know the complications, so we shouldn't rush to suggest he's done anything with his name to cover his tracks. |
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Had never watched that video. Okay, so Eduardo is not a native English speaker and thus presumably is an immigrant to the US. Judging by accent and surname, he's from Latin America. Has anyone ever heard any discussion of where he is from? This would be helpful pulling together more complete bios of Hashfast principals.
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