Well I am clearly out, because, well, I don't know why.

Could it be the extraordinary greed shown by some in this thread? I'm sure that dave111223 will be first in the queue for the redistribution for "unavailable on christmas/boxing day" people who didn't respond. I guess people should be hanging on every beep and ding and "you have mail"  during this time. Forget about, you know, family and friends.

Could it be the refunded paypal with no indication of why it was refunded? or even notification that it was refunded? or even that I was still on the list? and do you REALLY think that I am going to pay 0.1+shipping+fees for 2 sticks 8% higher than I had ALREADY paid? Not barring the fact that I covered the amount using a card which locked the refund's availability until this morning, so that I couldn't put it through an exchange.

Do you really think that I am going to pay DOUBLE what the 51+ buyers are?  a 33% premium above 0.7. was pushing it, but 100% (the effective valuation of 45/500*3+ 1 free.

In the unlikely event that someone would be willing, I would pay 120GBP +p&P <10GBP for 4 USB sticks, period. Even if that means I have to wait for UK delivery. That is 0.3BTC that I could have purchased at 400GBP which was above the 360GBP that I could have paid for prior to Christmas, but instead chose paypal as a convenience for escrow/chargebacks for both parties. But I am sure that greed will out, and the sticks will end up on ebay (oh wait they already are at 65GBP for tuesday 31st delivery)

So in all, I am out.

EDIT: even before I posted this, dave111223 has just posted a 0.0703per stick. Congratulations. You've just pushed well into farce...

2 x.0.1 = 0.2             = 0.1 per stick      33% premium above
3 x 0.1 = 0.3  + 1 free = 0.075 per stick          
4 x 0.0703 =  0.2812   = 0.0703 per stick.

and, oh, look that works out at  35GBPa stick at 480GBP , whereas I had paid 91.30/2= 45.85 a stick.

Even more now, I am convinced none of you have a clue what you are doing.


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