<...> but if more people keep buying, that can be overcome<...>
That is a massive but, don't you think?
Don't get me wrong, I am holding a large chunk of EXECoin right now from when I was solo-mining (I have around .5% of all coins currently in existence), and I have faith in this coin's fundamentals. But, I don't think early merchant support is the great thing that many people think it is.