he's online now - hopefully sorting out his end - wish i wasn't such an impatient fellow. not much we can do if it's a third party slowness causing issues.
I sent him GBP using online banking on a Saturday. The banking site told me the money would get to him on Monday (today) but a few minutes later he messaged me saying he had sent the BTC already. He was even able to provide the txid of the payment. 5 hours later, the transaction hit the network, and my wallet.
What I don't understand is why MtGox was able to give him the txid, but didn't broadcast the transaction until 5 hours later. It can't be that they didn't have the BTC on hand, because the txid can't be created until you have the coins available for sending. When the coins did eventually arrive, the txid was the same as the one AM had told me 5 hours previously.
Weird.
He was always pretty quick in responding to PMs for me though.
Edit: the last I heard from AM was in reply to a message of mine saying I had rated him on bitcoin-otc and asking him to rate me back:
Thank you, sorry for the delay. I am going to start using my personal wallet as Gox have been so slow recently as have natwest.
I will rate you as soon as I am home.
Suggests he's able to read the forums, but isn't "home". That may explain the delays.
Edit2: He hasn't rated me back yet.
