For a $149 investment it'll repay itself and make $1300 on top in one month of mining.
Think again. You paid about 23 BTC 10 months ago. You'll make .3 btc/day. Even if the difficulty doesn't skyrocket (which it will), you need more than 2 months to just break even. You aren't making any profit for a long time.
No, he paid in USD, just like everyone else. Nice try, though.
Meanwhile, if he bought BTC, he would have 23 BTC,
right now. Nice try at post rationalizing though.
I don't see how BFL stopped him from buying 23 BTC at any time, can you please post where BFL forbids people from purchasing BTC once they purchase one of our products, which are sold for USD (Not BTC)?
You can't? Oh, then your argument is fallacious. Nice try at rationalizing a false premise, though. Well, actually, no it's not. It's pretty sophomoric and elementary.
That would be Economics 101 at a grade school level. Purchasing your product presents an "Opportunity Cost". If the customer buys from you, he cannot use those dollars (or BTC) elsewhere. So in the most limited sense, yes you did present a barrier to the buyer buying BTC.
You simply were simply a bad choice and opportunity being chosen. Everything is hindsight though, so I won't blame you or the customer for taking his chances and coming out burned.
I can only blame you for not delivering your product on time and within (a reasonable) schedule. Let the lawyers figure out if the customers incurred any loses due to your failure to deliver in a reasonable time frame.
(Technically, you took up about 1/100th of their lifetime in the waiting game...think about that for awhile.)