Thanks everyone for providing your personal reviews. My experience with four vendors during one week is documented on a website I made for this purpose. Unexpected things happened ranging from extra shipping charges to catastrophic server crashes.
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I hope this information is useful to the bitcoin community. I have two more reviews to publish from the first test purchase, and another four purchases should be scheduled soon. It takes a lot of time with all the screenshots. I have no idea how much interest this is drawing. If you like it, please share it forward. Happy stacking!