At 1 PM today, I received my list of asset holders from James. I will send an email to each person on my list to confirm that I have received their share count and I will confirm their payment address.
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Any shares not claimed by noon within one week of today December 10th, 2012 will become property of myself, and will not be claimable.
Again - Any shares not claimed by noon on December 17th, 2012 will become my property. You will not be able to claim shares past this date.
So everyone waited 2+ months to get this list, and now that you have it - you are going to give people 7 days to reconcile? While I understand your wish to close this thing down as quickly as possible; I think you might want to reconsider. From an outside perspective it looks like a simple share/cash grab. I know several other issuers are waiting 60 days before doing anything like this.
I only point this out because I 'checked out' of the whole GLBSE & Bitcoin forums after about 3 weeks of watching the sh*tstorm. I loaded up my coind client just 3 or 4 days ago to discover I had received an eighth of a coin, 2x from an address I didn't recognize. After trying to get caught up on the forums, GLBSE blog posts, etc, I was just last night able to get in touch with GLBSE. I sent back the double payment and am waiting to get added to the issuer list.
So if I had been travelling this week, or if I had not decided to upgrade my PC (and thus necessitating the blockchain synch and wallet backup prior to the upgrade), I would not have found out about this at all. Other people may have similar circumstances, or circumstances that end in a similar result.
Certainly one can argue that's my tough luck, I should have been following my investments, blah blah, and that's all fine and dandy, but what's the harm in waiting another 30-45 days before pulling in other people's shares?