And I think this is exactly what BFL intended. Why ask for a refund when you can sell your "more valuable" pre-order to the greater fool?
Indeed.
It is almost like their perpetual promise to ship is now multiplying. Making new promises through that of customers. Promising a device that they themselves don't believe may ever come (therefore selling it).
Someone has got to get squeezed HARD so that BFL customers can get their cash....
one way or the other. In this case, find the dumbest newbie and retell them the same falsehoods that BFL told you. It will work, I promise*.
*(Potency may wane after 9 months of waiting)
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Someone should contact eBay to have them close down a shitload of accounts.