regardless of your philosophy on where ragingazn's responsibility begins and ends, he should respond. lose the entitlement? geeze
Based on WHAT? His part of the bargain was to place an order on behalf of the group, and then ship to the people he ordered on behalf of once the chips arrive.
Nowhere did he sign up to be anybody's personal secretary/accountant/mommy.
The chips aren't anywhere near shipping yet, so he has no responsibility to sit around an monitor the forums, just in case somebody wants to change horses mid-race, or whatever. Not his responsibility. Not the job he signed up for.
If I were him, I'd charge a fee for people who wanted to change their orders up after the fact. Time is money, and when you have to make special accommodations to every person who went off half-cocked, and bought things they couldn't afford, or have buyers remorse after the fact, time gets expensive real quick.
I travel a few times a year, and occasionally spend 15-20 days at a time without getting online beyond monitoring my phone for any legitimate emergencies. Sometimes I might jump online really quickly on my phone to check up on something of interest, etc, but that doesn't mean that I get on once, and I'm suddenly responsible to answer every single email or message I've received.
There's any number of valid reasons why he might not respond immediately (or at all) to people making demands that weren't part of the original deal. Even if it WAS part of the original deal, there's still plenty of time before chips will be shipping, so he's not obligated to put a 'rush' on your requests.
Failure to plan, on your (or somebody else's) part, does not constitute and emergency on his part. Period. Full Stop. End of story.
Wow, you want to talk about entitlement? Nobody else is allowed to transfer their chips because you're worried it might cause clerical errors for yours, huh?
No, because it puts HUNDREDS of people's orders at risk, just for the convenience of ONE PERSON, who can't be bothered to stick to his commitment. That's not entitlement to look out for the group as a whole. What's entitled is expecting that it's okay to put the risk of EVERYBODY's order getting screwed up aside, in favor of benefitting ONE person, who doesn't have the testicular fortitude to complete the transaction that he agreed to. Can't keep your word? Fine. Why should that be everybody else's problem, and not YOUR problem?
The group (and its individual members) have a vested interest in making sure that a few deadbeats don't screw things up for the rest of the group (and its individual members).
6 days with no response from a guy responsible for almost $100k in chips is reason for concern. He's not obligated to change anything in the orders, but he can't be completely out of contact when we're trusting him with that kind of money.
He CAN'T? What part of the agreement said he had to be in constant contact with every individual member of the group buy? Once the chips ship from Avalon, he has a responsibility to ship them out. That's it. No part of the agreement says he has to be caught up in the crosstalk that takes place in the weeks/months before the chips arrive at his door.