This is not surprising. Considering the IRS now treats bitcoin as property (in the same class as gold, basically) and FinCEN recognizes it as money, it is an asset that will get legal protection.
218 bitcoins for them is likely not a big deal. But, I bet the total number from all customer for whom they did not deliver products as promised is way higher.
Personally, I just don't understand why they are behaving the way they are. Even if they were unable to deliver as promised and even if they could not repay the money owed immediately, anyone with integrity should communicate and discuss a repayment plan. I suspect most customers would accept a payment plan vs. going to court and arguing and potentially forcing the company into bankruptcy. Plus, being responsive and also shipping products earns a bit of goodwill. If they really have products to sale, they'll sell them that way. As it is, I would not buy anything from that company.
Your post are always non-informative, meaningless, like you are trying to sabotage any constructive discussion. What did you want to say with all this text that you've written? You wanted to inform us that we should not buy anything from HF? Thanks for the advice, if you've haven't told that to all of us (heavily burned from HF) we may have made that mistake all over again.
The point of my original post, and the reason I've posted the link here, was to illustrate that when somebody fights for his own bitcoins he manages to get favorable court order, and get the final court decision in two weeks from now. On the other hand, when somebody doesn't really give a f*** about other people's money, from which he already took 1/3, he gets nowhere with the plethora of excuses why things are staled.
Edit:
Now additional info about that court case is published:
http://digitaljournal.com/pr/1819167
