We'd like to take a moment to address sharpspoon's concerns:
Firstly - we would like to apologize to sharpspoon for any miscommunication or lack of communication on CoinTerra’s part. We’ve already reached out to him directly this evening via a Private Message and a senior member of the management team will look into his specific situation and resolve it as quickly as possible.
Secondly - and this is not a "the dog ate my homework" excuse - but we've done some investigation and we *think* we know why sharpspoon's issue wasn't responded to when it was supposedly escalated to senior management. I was reluctant to go into the details but in the interest of transparency here goes: When our Tier 2 (escalated) customer service expert cc'd (it's a blind cc, only viewable internally) a member of the management team asking him to personally look into the issue, he left the ticket 'open' (as opposed to 'resolved', which is what we do when we close a ticket). It appears that in our Customer Support software, when you do that, the ticket stays in ‘open’ limbo and doesn't forward the cc until the ticket is finally closed (resolved) - which only happens when the issue has been fixed satisfactorily for the customer. We are going to look into this and find a solution, if it is indeed what I suspect the problem is.
Thirdly - yes it is true that we have been inundated with inquiries over the past two weeks, due to the massive surge in world-wide interest in the Bitcoin ecosystem as the BTC price has skyrocketed, and that has directed a huge amount of traffic to CoinTerra: This has been very much a double-edged sword!
As soon as we saw the surge in inquiries we took action to add significantly to our Customer Service team, both on phone support and web/email tickets. However, it does take a little time to train new staff up to be able to respond to issues, and the fact that the more senior customer service team members needed to spend time training the new members meant that they weren't able to be as effective as they normally are at responding to issues.
In response to that situation we had more senior staff roll up their sleeves to help to clear the backlog. Those of you with open tickets may well have noticed our responses through the Thanksgiving holiday, and we have now caught up to the point where there are no "unassigned" tickets up to Wednesday evening when we officially closed for the holidays. There are still a number of escalated tickets where additional steps are required to resolve the matter (e.g. if someone made a mistake on their wire transfer such as a misspelling or wrong address, which requires investigation.) We shall endeavor to be fully caught-up on these as quickly as possible when the offices re-open on Monday.
Finally, we'd like to thank sharpspoon for pointing out that we did not, in fact, delete any of his posts on our forum. We will occasionally move a post if it is in the wrong sub-forum (or should be in a more appropriate sub-forum), and we will, of course, remove any spam that gets through or any content that is illegal/profane/highly offensive - normal forum moderation stuff. But we do not have a policy of censoring free speech.
We hope this goes some way to explain the situation. Of course, actions speak louder than words, so we would hope that sharpspoon will let the community know when he's been in contact with our senior management, and when his issue has been resolved.
Have a happy Rest-Of-Thanksgiving weekend!
== The CoinTerra Support Team ==
Since you are online, this should be a good time to ask.
When are the first units going to ship?