I just don't understand the point of posts like this.  Are you saying investors should be happy to write-off their investments and move on without doing anything at all?  I can afford to lose what I invested but that doesn't make it any less disappointing and it doesn't mean I am willing to walk away without trying to recover something. You refer to the wild west - if this was the wild west, I would find and shoot the person ripped me off, for however little. It's the principle.