At least one of their listed phone numbers used to ring to Chapman University Incubation Center -- might be called eVillage now. One of the people at Coinabul named Jon Holmquist graduated from Chapman University. His linked-in profile lists says he was a director of marketing at Coinabul. As I recall, shipments came from somewhere in the San Diego area. When I spoke to anyone on the phone from Coinabul, it sounded like they were out and about; not in an office.

If you have concerns, offer a higher price. My transaction with CanaryInaMine was quick and as agreed -- what do you expect to get for a coupon? He was the only one that was offering to buy that seemed likely to actually pay.

You pay a premium for a coin. I just looked at the price for the coin you list on Ebay and at Coinabul. The premium I see is about $50, not $200. The premium is reasonable to me because they are a vendor who delivers and I am risk averse. My primary complaint is that they do not ship as advertised and are slow to respond to inquiries. My suggestion to them would be to ship as advertised, cut their product list to their top items, and maintain some inventory. My guess is that their volume doesn't support better pricing and that they do not maintain an inventory.

My experience with Coinabul is that if you call one of the phone numbers on your invoice you should get through or Jay will call back. I have only had some luck emailing jon (not sure if he is still there) or jay directly, the general email address doesn't seem to be monitored. Their order system allows you to select standard or overnight insured. I have always selected overnight insured but the shipping method has never been overnight. I wasn't concerned with speed, only insured. Initially, this caused me quite a bit of undue concern when they said the ordered shipped and it took a week to arrive. Also, I sometimes received a shipping notice almost immediately when the order was actually only ordered.

Overall, they run a pretty loose business and what they promise is not what they deliver but their product does eventually arrive. It appears to me that they try to appear bigger than they are and run this business out of a business incubation service at a college. My guess is that they are technical guys that don't understand customer service. Hopefully, they will start to understand that they need to deliver what they promise.

Inaba, would you mind checking in on the EMC bug report forum? I posted over there a few times last week and then happened on this thread where you are aware of the payout and other issues caused by last weeks problem and have corrected some accounts. In my case, about 9 hours of US3 work disappeared, which is no big deal but it would be nice if you could check in on the EMC site forums every so often. Could you reset my desol totals? --thanks

I predict that it will.

I will let you know!

Will this count as one of my 5 posts?

It appears that there are lots of "scammers" that comment on introductions here. Please don't judge me by the company I keep.