This is specious reasoning. We are talking about failure to deliver a product here, not someone changing their mind when the price changes.

Just print out the private key.

If you download the entire blockchain it is possible to keep a copy of the balance of ALL addresses in a memcache deamon in ram. It allows you to check the balance of any address without using extra bandwidth.

I have seen setups like that to run through dictionaries looking for brain wallets.

Considering how much the cost of metal in bitcoins has gone down, it must have been a great profit to hold customers bitcoins and buy the metal later at a lower price.

The refund should be given in the exact currency paid, bitcoins.

If I traded 55 oz of silver coins for 1 gold coin and you never delivered the gold coin and the silver/gold ratio changed to 30 would you only give back 30 oz of silver? The idea that you have to sell a coin back to them instead of getting a refund nonsense, he paid for delivery so he either gets it delivered or a full refund.

USD don't enter into it. If the person wanted to trade in USD they likely would have gone to a conventional gold dealer.

No company should use their customer as a hedge. It is not the customers fault that the company spent bitcoins on gold that they could not ship before the price in bitcoins went down.

They need either send the metal he paid for or return all of the payment. To give back less bitcoins than paid it nothing short of a rip off.

Does this person not understand the concept of the odd being stacked towards the house?

Are we really going to go down the road of deciding who can and cannot use bitcoin?

Any solution should be agnostic of specific vendors. The problem is not SD, how the hell is bitcoin going to scale to meet massive use if we can't handle a single company?

They seemed to have fixed it, got my coins back.

I think the way it is set up no private key or password is ever sent over the wire.

Oh thank god.

Are you running blockchain.info off of windows servers?

Why did I see the windows logo appear for a second?

I am also seeing this bug. I imported the private key into another client and they spent fine.

Perhaps I should start trading gold here, I have had no problem with 5+ years of shipping gold via ebay.

This is bull. No real gold dealer would deny responsibility like this.

I had an order from APMEX go missing, in time the investigation revealed it was likely stolen from a UPS truck. APMEX had a replacement package going out before I even noticed the delivery exception. They did so PRIOR to filing THEIR insurance.

When you sell a buyer insurance it is your job to make sure the package is actually INSURED, failing that he should pay it out of pocket.

I want to buy about $20k worth of gold over the next few months and was considering Coinabul, but forget about that! His prices are so high I could just sell the bitcoins and go to the local store.

Is there another issue related to the fork? I sent some coins into instawallet and they are not showing up.

Nevermind, it is working again. Keep up the good work.

Cannot log into wallet, I get:

Got error 157 'Unknown error code' from NDBCLUSTER

Password box does not appear.

You rock! I got the money back now.

I am amazed that more people are not reporting this, I wonder if it is isolated.