For many people, myself included, it took over a year for orders to arrive when they should have arrived within 2 or 3 months by BFL's original estimates.

dude, at this point you are just giving them attention

let it die

I don't think you need to, the results are pretty clear. 

A new license plate holder from BFL for every Monarch pre-order.




Here is what you are likely to look forward to in a few months and no amount of SPIN you put on it will distract people who can read these BFL threads.... mark his words:


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=266945.msg3552803#msg3552803

Did you even read your own poll results?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=323857.0

Least reliable company?

Cointerra   - 0 (0%)
Kncminer   - 4 (3.3%)
Hashfast   - 4 (3.3%)
butterfly labs   - 100 (83.3%)
Terrahash   - 8 (6.7%)
Avalon   - 4 (3.3%)


My questions again:

Where is there ANY evidence they have a chip on the design board?
Who is designing the BFL Monarch chip?
Is the designer in house at BFL?
Where are the designs?
When did they promise the tape out?
Have they taped out?
How long is the Monarch now delayed?
How can they justify a design and mockup pci-e mining card without having any detailed information on the chips first given the issues associated with this sort of design?

Further...

Why are there FCC, EC and ETL marks on the Monarch prototype when they have not been submitted to those agencies for testing?

Used, But cant sell as it was an order upgrade, Don't want to sell my account as I dont trust anyone enough.

I just have to accept this one as a loss by the time I get it.

You win some, You loose some.

For those that don't know the context:
PG SELF IMPOSED CENSORSHIP BECAUSE BFL DOESN'T WANT PG RIPPING THEM A NEW ONE FOR EVERY ERROR

Depends on many factors.

1. Is the scamemer in the same country/state/providence as you?

2. Did the scammer make thing into more of the civil/common law situation rather than the applicable criminal code (It could be a crime  in Canada but may be a civil matter in Italy.

3. Are you willing to trace the scammer via legal (law abiding way) or with some use of the gray-zone tactics.  

4. How much resources are you willing to put into the scammer hunt?  (It may be possible to find the scammers to justice but the cost it may associated could be prohibitable for the average person)

5. Did the person use any black-hat technology while scamming you.  (may not be impossible but differently make things harder)

6. Are you willing to risk your reputation by possibly be in trouble with the local law.

7. Tor, Public Wifi, highjacked unsecured home wifi, restaurant wifi whatever the access is from, more than likely there might be some small mistakes made by the scammers.  We as average citizen can't access the recorded security camera footage from the local MacDonald even we traced the scammers to.  Paying off the store managers or local Lost Prevention guys to give up the store security footage can be very expensive.  Specially paying off the government officials or technicians who maintains Automated Vehicle License Plate Readers if the scammers were seen hopping into the vehicle.  Traffic Cams, train station cameras, general user's smartphone videos.  So many way to find the scammers but the resources it may take can stand in between

paying off your local wireless telephone customer service reps or legal compliance department reps to get the subscriber info for us average citizen is not so easy or cheap.  When it comes to the ISP subscribers info the same way.  

May be we can trace the scammers to the local cat-house wifi or the hotel's business center computers.  Kids can lift the latent prints and collect DNA evidence from the crime scene, however, we don't have access to the database to compare the latent or any of these CSI evidence against, not alone local driver's license or vehicle registration info or even the utility service account holder's info to track them down to.

If the scammers are dumb enough to meet you in person again, then you can bag him/her but we just never know