I believe his brother did die, but I think he is using it as a way to make himself some cash.  This is this guys pattern, find a cause, any cause and exploit it for personal gain.  ANYTHING that happens in his life is.... "poor poor me, everyone shits on me, while I did nothing wrong, please give me some money"

So your brother died, and you think someone killed him,  go hire a lawyer, and pay for it yourself.

You shame your brother by begging.

The story says updated Friday June 7, 2013. Maybe that last part was the update.

Bruno, if it's not a scam then your giving a rash of shit to someone that just lost a family member. I know the guy is a nut and probably a little high most of the time but he's harmless like Atlas. Be real sure your right first.

Really? - I can't work it out - I thought it's a crappy scam then some trusted people post positive comments - I googled and found stuff - dunno what to believe now... sad if true - sad if false. Bad one.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/26/195995672/man-indicted-in-scheme-to-blackmail-romney-over-tax-returns

been away and see this has been posted but man.

assuming he did do this why?

this reminds me of the matthew bet, but he did it with the govt :/

You should probably read the link below.  Just for fun I have copied a pretty important section when it comes to refunds.

When You Must Cancel an Order

You must cancel an order and provide a prompt refund when:
•the customer exercises any option to cancel before you ship the merchandise;
•the customer does not respond to your first notice of a definite revised shipment date of 30 days or less and you have not shipped the merchandise or received the customer’s consent to a further delay by the definite revised shipment date;
•the customer does not respond to your notice of a definite revised shipment date of more than 30 days (or your notice that you are unable to provide a definite revised shipment date) and you have not shipped the merchandise within 30 days of the original shipment date;
•the customer consents to a definite delay and you have not shipped or obtained the customer’s consent to any additional delay by the shipment time the customer consented to;
•you have not shipped or provided the required delay or renewed option notices on time; or
•you determine that you will never be able to ship the merchandise.


http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus02-business-guide-mail-and-telephone-order-merchandise-rule

Taking pre-order full payment for a product not yet delivered falls into different category than product already shipped.  While it may be perfectly legal to offer a no refund policy on items shipped/received (aside from defects/warranty issues), it certainly appears that not allowing a full refund before shipping a product is not acceptable to the FTC.

If I was BFL I would not want lawyers looking into this stuff

bitcoin will never have good jokes, it takes 10 minutes to get the punchline

The website now says at checkout that all sales are final. You're quoting months old posts. You people have been screaming that the sky was falling since day one. Said they were going to take all the pre-order money and run without shipping a product. They shipped a product, and you said they were just going to ship a few to get more orders, and then take the money and run without ever shipping to customers.

They've been shipping hundreds of orders for the past few weeks, and now you're screaming that they're going to take the money and run, because they're enforcing their 'no refunds' policy on new orders that were placed AFTER they started shipping.

Every time you people are proven wrong, you come up with more bullshit to speculate about and say "I told you so" even though you've been wrong every time. I'm looking at you Phinnaeus Gage

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Just please tell me what I should say to get the job.

I'll be damned. Pop-tarts are metric! 75mm X 125mm.