EURO LENS GROUP BUY it's not going down, Time to send money back Options

[phillstek]

It's getting close to 5 months now since I sent my money for this group buy and I'm starting to get annoyed as the lack of product and information really drags on and on.

I sent Shoe a PM suggesting that he should not have to be an apologist for AA and that perhaps it was time for George to chime in... I never received a reply so I'm going public with my frustration.

Am I the only one feeling a tad pissed about the delays and the distinct lack of input from George?

What's actually happening? How long is it going to be till we get these items?

Let the flaming begin,

Phil

[biosurfer1]

I had let Shoe handle this and did not want to have two different people giving information.
The deal was 100 sets for the price so that we could do a run but that never happened. We then opened it to the other varieties usa and italian that we already had in stock. STILL did not get the 100 sets. I purposely had Shoe hold the money as I did not want to take anyone's money until I had product ready to ship. I funded the production for the required lenses out of my pocket (had to run 500 sets) hoping that I would get to the 100 sets we needed so kept the buy open. Finally the lenses were ready to ship. They are now being picked up by our customs agent to be here in February.
Shoe sent money in the last part of December but not all of it we are still missing about 1000 and so far have had one bounced check.
The usa and the italian have been sent out already the euros when they arrive. I am checking on air freight for 100 sets as we have many more sets sold at our regular retail so it may be possible to cover the freight costs.
That is it in a nutshell. The deal again was 100 sets and then start production for the price. That NEVER happened, I funded it myself only received the money AFTER the lenses were done and ready to ship, am still owed just over 1000 and one of you bounced a check

Are you sure George? Didn't you give the OK to start producing them at 50 orders, because you that stated back on August 13th of the main thread?!?!?
Shoe even told you we didn't have 100 yet and you were the one who said go ahead and start collecting money and that 50 was good enough, and it looks as though he even called you to verify.

Is that not what happened??

Okay, in order to get these for $130.00, we need to sell 100 sets. Judging from the poll, only 110 sold all together and only 66 at best at the $130.00 price. The other 44 are only agreeing to buy if we reach the 200 units sold price of $90.00. I can start collecting up the money if we can get 100 sold. Maybe I need to start a new poll to see if we can get 100 yeses at the $130.00 price. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Ok I think that we have enough judging by the poll.
Why don't you head up the collection and I will tell our man to get ready. As soon as we have 50 paid orders I will have him put our tooling in the machine and begin to run them.