I don't have any chips or batch 3, but i definitely considered it at the time. The pricing for b3 put me off and the amount intermediaries put me off the bulk chips, although I love the community team effort so far and understand the frustration.
That said I'm confident it will work out fine. It appears Yifu has a habit of going silent just before activity and let's the activity speak for itself, which I think is still a positive thing. As much as you guys want reassurance, I can't help but imagine he is being hounded by all customers that have contact to him, his phone and enails are going bezerk, and he's probably buzzing around like a blue arsed fly trying to get it all sorted and sleeping as and when he can. No doubt there is some immature decisions being made due to lack of experience, schoolboy errors and probably pulling all nighters like all uni students do. I realise he is no longer at university, but he's of that age and disposition so I'd imagine I'd have been similar in that respect at that age, in fact I know for sure I was!
Likewise I appreciate the impatience experienced by you guys currently, some warranted, the rest just down to having an impatient trait, but in any case the B3 guys know there has been a spike of activity today in their mining pool indicating B3 is about to ship and some of the bulk chips have arrived in peeps hands so that's surely an imminent release.
In any case the best thing I think you can do for yourselves is stop staring at the screen and refreshing in the hope of news for the next 72 hours and hopefully something will transpire. Irrespective of what the ideal situation will be you know a bit about the charachter, you know he's a little flakey with comms, and you've got to appreciate he must be rushed of his feet, so don't get mad at him just yet as all signs indicate the wait will soon be over for you. Stay calm, stress does not help things, ever!