There is no way in Hell we are paying 7BTC to Cryptsy so that they can consider us a more legitimate coin to add than Saturncoin, Takeicoin (no backing/endorsement, dumped 99% day it hit Cryptsy), Flappycoin (we'll see if they build a Flappy/USD exchange inside their wallet within 2 weeks like they're telling their community), etc. etc. Personally I'm done with bribes - it's vested interests buying an exchange, hyping their coin and dumping on listing (the profit made generally makes up for buying the votes). Coins that stuck around used to get listed after a month or two tops (we're past that point now). Now it's dozens of them that are a couple of weeks old milking these exchanges pockets.
Cryptsy doesn't like us because too many people that support NobleCoin publicly call them out. I'm sorry if that means we can't get pumped before hitting them and dumped/manipulated on day of listing - but we're going to grow other ways. Throwing money at an exchange in the hope of an artificial pump that is more likely to be damaging medium-term and that could better be spent elsewhere just still doesn't sit too well with a lot of us.
Initially our game plan was like the rest - exchanges, exchanges, exchanges, with infrastructure/merchants/uses for the coin secondary. Now our game plan is marketplace, promotions (including growing the Movement), 10% off products and an exchange-rate backed by the marketplace. We're not kissing ass/paying bribes that used to be under the table for the 'privilege' of being listed.I know we said earlier we would follow it up, to be honest I just couldn't bring myself to do it when I had BTC - instead we ordered Newegg cards, got funds to cover the marketplace purchases (as we're trying now), put money towards the Water Project, and started our sponsorship of eSport teams.In terms of the marketplace orders, we are getting them out there today, here is a snippet of the email/info we've sent out. I'm very sorry again - the amount of orders that got through before/over weekend period when we can't clear bank funds was crazy (everyone picking up on the exchange rate/10% deals):
We're getting huge interest in our Marketplace after our posts, with more and more people buying and taking advantage of the deals/exchange difference. This is great news to be honest as it gives us volume, buy support and notice.
Only downside is over the weekends our funds don't clear when we need to sell BTC to restock the Marketplace or cover Amazon orders - we weren't expecting so many orders Fri-Sat. For everyone who has ordered we apologise for the delay - a number of emails were sent. We should be caught up with the orders by Wednesday - and we're sending everyone a little bonus for the inconvenience.
Remember it always applies that if you email us and want to withdraw your order at any time to sell/hold NOBL just email us and we can shoot it back.
Apologies again & cheers!