Here is the reply I got from Josh today. He really wants me to believe the check was "lost in the mail"... I showed him an email response I received from the FBI's cyber crimes and wire fraud division and now he's upset. For a college graduate Mr. Zipkin has a very loose grasp of the English language.
Craig,
All of these institutions have already heard of us and we've already spoken to them in advanced in one form or another. Different clients preferred to file in different agencies, Including the PA AG, BBB, IC3, FCC, and several others. What we're doing is not illegal because we are in fact shipping units and showing proof of shipping to these agencies, we have proof of manufacturing delays and proof of materials received and shipped as well. If you like to continue to filing complaints, please by all means do, because they have already been informed of our company and we've have already been down that road them.
Furthermore,
We in fact did sent out your check Craig, but even so in the case that it didn't make it to you, which I asked you to let me know in the previous email on Thursday the 13th, I gave you the option of receiving your miner or fedexing you a refund check so that at this point would could track it.
Now, because of your hostility and complaints, we'll just ship you a miner next week.
Regards,
Josh
This is what spending 6 years at Penn State does to your brain:
http://advancedminers.com/what-is-a-bitcoin-miner/Bitcoin is similar to the U.S. dollar, the euro or the Mexican peso – except that it is not controlled by any country. Bitcoin is a “cryptocurrency”, a cryptocurrency is “is a type of digital currency which in turn is a type of alternative currency” as defined by wikipedia. From a consumers perspective bitcoin is almost the same as paypal. You have an online wallet, just like your online paypal account, and you can do everything from purchasing items online to sending money to family and friends.
Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin being one of about 30 different currency’s in the moment) is the future of money and how the online world will operate. Currently, there are several online and even local merchants which accept bitcoin, and there are few services which allow you to have a debit/credit card attached to your bitcoin wallet. Most bitcoin wallets allow you to instantaneously convert your Bitcoins into dollars, and directly deposit those dollars directly into your account, in less than a few minutes. So in other words, Bitcoins are Dollars in digital form.