At the risk of being called a TerraHash shill, I am making the following statement.
I know it sucks for all of you who ordered from them. I feel lucky that I did not, but I almost did. Complaining to FTC, or FBI, IC3, Attorney General, BBB or whatever else Bitcoinorama is suggesting, is going to do NOTHING! These agengies investigate for fraud, and from the looks of it, TerraHash did not do anything illegal. Your situation with them is purely a civil matter. Yes, by law they ARE required to refund, when asked. But refusing a refund is not a crime. It is a breach of contract. Which is a civil matter. Even if the FBI opens an inquiry against them, as long as they have the bills/receipts to prove that they paid for the chips and the components (which I believe they have), there is nothing FBI can do about it. From my calculations, and a recent comment of Amir in this thread, I estimate they invested 50% of the money in the chips, 30% in components, 10% office and miscellaneous and 10% in salary. If FBI comes and looks at their books (assuming they have been maintaining their accounts), they would not find any illegal activity. It would be waste of their time and tax-payer money. My suggestion to you guys is to pool money together, and hire a lawyer and file a civil lawsuit against them. Definitely, you will get a judgement against them. But we all know what the outcome of that will be. TerraHash will dissolve and file for bankruptcy. The judge would not hold the office-bearers of the company liable. Even if they have any money in the company's accounts, I am assuming they already owe a lot to PayPal right now because of all the chargebacks. So, in the end you will probably get 5-10% of your money back.
We all know they got screwed by Avalon, but even if they didn't and it was 100% their mistake, they did not do any crime. Collecting money from customers and investing it in wrong place (as long as there are no fraudulent intentions) is not a crime.
Yo, sorry what am I suggesting?! Where the f**k did you get that? Don't you dare go putting words in my mouth chump.
I said call your issuing bank if you paid by ccard. Where the hell did you get your screwed up assumption from?