You feel sorry for them?
Don't tell me you're also selling Gold and Silver without having informed yourself where you can ship it to or not... or making customers pay for insurances that don't cover the lost package... or saying it will be shipped in 2 days and taking 2 months...
Because if that's also your Modus Operandi you better give up now.
Man, you are hard to please. Even feeling sorry that somebody has messed up is bad in your eyes...
Did you read my email proposal to coinabul - that they fold quickly because no matter if they are right or wrong, they lose? Well they did not even care to reply, which shows how immature they are.
The difference between you and me is, I have actually been doing business all my life and that gives me a certain tolerance for behavior that is annoying, but not outright criminal. Shipping time is critical for ASIC manufacturers, but for investment products, hardly ever damage is done if an order takes longer to deliver than promised or expected. What can not be tolerated, is the messing up with locked-in prices. If you lock in, it is a deal. Every professional merchant knows it. If you cannot trust your customers to know it, don't let them lock in before they pay. Yes, I started my career by wiring $10000s into the US, without even knowing the price of the product I was supposed to pay for.
What does not surprise me the least, is that there are issues with shipping and whatnot. That's business. What does surprise me, is the willingness to order from these bitcoin businesses whose expertise cannot compare to the outside world. Mr. P was ranting in the other thread that he is doing things right and eating competition alive (MPEx>GLBSE). I don't know if I am doing things better than anyone else in the outside world, but for all I know so far, you bitcoiners seem to be willing to be a$$raped by anyone in the "community" as if it is your holy obligation to feed kids, who are acting business, and stubbornly refuse to take advice from somebody who has been doing it for long and knows what he is doing.
