Many people tried their best to explain this before it was too late, but we were drowned out by the shrieking of trolls like yourself and the rest of your Free Stuff Army.

If HashFast doesn't ship anything this year, apart from Christmas cards, I get a full refund. In BTC.
Given the coins have appreciated 300% vs fiat since I spent them, I'm fine with that.
Yes, I was deluded by glittering visions of risk-free windfalls, which I should have realized were an economic impossibility. Greed + confirmation bias is a PITA.

Thanks for the quote from November 2013. Here's one from today you seem to have accidentally overlooked on purpose:
It took a student still in law school about 45 seconds to disabuse me of the delusion that such windfalls were reasonable, much less actionable. 
As I said w/r/t the actual scams BASIC and COGNITIVE, "live and learn."
