I feel like it will take an eternity to re-earn the bitcoins I lost in coinlab shares. No offense, guys @ coinlab. pay me. I only mine on your pool by accident at this point - all of my other pools have failed over at that point. I should've never agreed to 95% and a fiat denominated PPS for redeem points as some type of "reward" for my dedication. In retrospect, that's insanity.
The redeem points were a hedge against Bitcoin decreasing in value/profitability, but it can go both ways. I don't think it was insanity; I'm pretty sure we all signed up because we expected profitability to decline. And thanks to unrelated economic developments, it (happily) hasn't.
That being said, I would love to see a formal procedure for credits buy-outs. I know Giga tried to sell his shares awhile back on the forums and was told he couldn't, but that Coinlab could possibly work out a private deal with him for a reduced percentage of his share value.
Interesting idea: I think it could be good for both sides. I'm passing it up the chain.