UPDATE:Hi Everyone, Firstly, thank you for everyone's patience... in short, this whole situation is a bit of a mess and it has been very time consuming sorting everything out and getting to the bottom of what's what.
In the spirit of maintaining FULL TRANSPARENCY with all Group Buy PARTICIPANTS, please kindly read the following self-explanatory communication between myself and the individuals responsible for collecting the FUNDS and paying them to me (Q DID IT! and SUNSHINEFROST):
Got your email. All of them to be confirmed, 14 of them, are indeed in the buy at what they say they are in at. They are all original participants and are on my list. I think mine may never have got merged with SUNSHINEFROST's is all. Concerning the $729.06 (plus a little more if more people poke there heads back in here) I have no idea what happened to it but we most certainly need to find it! We are actually short $1296.06. $5200.00 - 3903.94 (there's also fees here as well).
To which this is my reply, which again is self-explanatory:
Hi Q DID IT!
Thank you for your email and confirming that the total sum outstanding to be paid to me is in fact $1,296.06
All things considered I here is how I will be proceeding. Whilst I fully appreciate your circumstances I do not feel it is appropriate to delay providing the refunds to the Group Buy PARTICIPANTS any further.
Therefore, I am going to issue all the refunds, making up the difference out of my own pocket, on the understanding that you or SUNSHINEFROST will pay me the sum owing, namely $1,296.06, within the next few weeks at the latest.
I also consider it appropriate that full transparency be maintained with all the Group Buy PARTICIPANTS and hence I will be posting relevant disclosing information on the forum regarding what has transpired here. I am sure that you will agree that maintaining everyone’s trust is of paramount importance.
Between you and SUNSHINEFROST you will need to figure out where the missing money is, as I can hardly assist with this since the limit of my knowledge regarding this matter is that I did not receive payment of the respective funds.
I would appreciate it if you can please kindly update me imminently as soon as you succeed in determining where the missing funds are and how and whom will be paying them to me, and when.
All the best,
SCIENCEGUY
Further to this, I was provided with two spreadsheets listing the Group Buy PARTICIPANTS; however, it transpired that these were incomplete; wherein, the good new is that I have now verified that ALL the individuals who have claimed to be Group Buy PARTICIPANTS are indeed so and hence I have been able to add them to the listing to receive their refund.
And thirdly, I have been waiting to receive the requested PMs from all Group Buy PARTICIPANTS confirming what is their PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS which I need in order to provide the respective REFUNDS.
Hence the delay, which I can only apologize for and again thank everyone for their patience in this regard
I am pleased to confirm that I have now completed the SECOND batch of refunds with respect to the PRL-5-83 Group Buy... and here is the full details regards the state of play as of now: A further 15 PARTICIPANTS have today been provided their refund via PAYPAL. This makes a total of 28 PARTICIPANTS who have now been provided with their refund.
This means that All PARTICIPANTS who have provided me with their PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS have now received their refund.
16 PARTICIPANTS have still failed to provide me with their PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS via PM, which I need to be able to provide the refunds. I will be unable to issue these individuals with their refund if they fail to come forward and provide me with their PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESSThese are as follows:
TheRockst4r
Krabby
Wu Hang
autopilot
thegodsmustbecrazy
mait
kevinseven11
FrankMH
stponky
redan
PWAIN
Spookytooth
Aarfai
Sparkk51
Thor
Jurassic
Please can you all kindly PM me your PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS which I need in order to provide you with your refund! One of these individuals has provided me with a NON-FUNCTIONING PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS and hence I received an ERROR MESSAGE when I tried to pay them... they know who they are (I have sent them a PM) and I have avoided naming them for obvious reasons, but if everyone can please make a concerted effort to provide me with a VALID PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS as soon as possible that would be most greatly appreciated.
Edited by ScienceGuy, 12 February 2014 - 10:31 AM.