Thanks Coinabul! I've sent you the email now. 

Hello all!

I finally joined this forum. Started using bitcoin back in 2010 while in Uni, and spent some time optimising the CPU client to eck out a bit more performance (wasn't really successful, but it was fun trying).

Since then went to GPU mining and otherwise try to promote bitcoin use amongst friends. Main interest in bitcoin (apart from mining) is to use it as an online replacement to paypal, etc... which I think should be good from website/cause donations to online shops/auctions.

Hey guys,

After spending many years mining bitcoin, issues in the real world required me to cash out my earnings to get a lump sum. This coincided with the Coinabul black friday sale, so I decided to use them, especially as they seemed to have a lot of good reviews on the web.

The order page said that my gold should be here within 4 days, and I paid promptly. However it is now been almost 3 weeks, and I've not got the gold, I've not got any emails about my order, and no response from the Coinabul contact page. I just seemed to have lost my money.

I see that this has happened before, specifically here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68681.0 , and I know that coinabul has an account on this forum. Unfortunately as a newbie I cannot post in the above thread, or PM the coinabul user themselves, so if any of you could help me (or forward this as appropriate) I would be very grateful.

Unfortunately my first attempt at using my bitcoins has not gone too well