Quote from: ik2013 on September 04, 2013, 04:42:24 AM

Quote from: chsados on September 04, 2013, 03:34:57 AM

Quote from: powpow on September 04, 2013, 12:50:46 AM

The service fee has been reduced to 5%, which seems fair. Thanks for the update.

Still curious to hear about assembly, parts and shipping.

Seems fair? This is absolute bullshit. Steamboat already made 10% on each chip order. Why does he deserve another 5% for essentially filling out a refund form from Yifu. Granted he will have to deal with all the paperwork but that was what he signed up for when he organized this group buy - total control.

Why was every other group buy organizer able to provide a 100% chip refund?

This is absolutely outrageous.

Not sure where the additional 5% talk is coming from...it's quite clearly spelled out in the update. It reads like half of the 10% markup is being refunded, so does this still sound like a bad deal when he is trying to operate a business in the real world and has put in unknown quantities of time and money into arranging the hosting and assembly? None of us really have a good idea of the financials on this, there quite possibly are costs that cannot be recovered at this point. So steamboat and crew should all go to the poor house because you want to recover 100% of your Investment. For god's sake there were people a few pages back saying we should get an injunction on his funds because he hasn't posted in the thread for a few days. As well as the (baseless) attacks on his character and intentions, trolls were all up in here talking about how there was a deadline from Yifu for Wednesday, when this was not the case at all. I feel like he deserves the 5% just for putting up with you twats. /rant off

Good point, didn't think about it in terms of getting 5% of the markup back. As for the rest of your post, please don't associate me with being unreasonable/troll of others. I have literally said zilch about any of this other than gather lists of people wanting a refund when steamboat was not talking. But then again, didn't each other group buy organizer also refund their markup (not sure if they had a markup)?