I will be filing a compliant with paypal and a request for my money back and I think everyone should consider doing this. This is something I have not done before and would always consider a last resort but it appears there is no alternative option.
As a community we have to show it is not acceptable to take thousands of pounds of money from people then to effectively disappear with it. I find it totally unacceptable that dubs has clearly logged into the forums several times recently too, as this discussion has taken place, but has not addressed it in the slightest. That screams suspicious to me.
The biggest problem with that is that if Dubs is not gone, Paypal will probably lock his account until the end of the investigation and that screws everybody else over.
Besides, you are probably well beyond your refund term anyway.
Put down your damn pitchfork
I'd advise everyone charge back now.[You will have to do this through CC] (Which coincidentally looking at the time payments were taken and where we are now, are past the 60 day refund period -- as with all other GB's that have gone sour in the past)
I've been away from GH for some time, but I know how this community works. There is absolutely no excuse for going "away" or being "busy" for months at a time. If Dubs is not gone, he should come speak for himself.
I've seen so many scams/forfeitures go wrong in the few years I have been on here and honestly other than Bunnylake, mkawa, sprit, that one russian guy, and some others, I would not trust just anyone to run a GB of this caliber. I honestly don't know why slander is considered against the rules on GH. I think people deserve to know about TheProfosist, WhiteFireDragon, keyboardvintage, and Jackass.
I'd say there should be a more stringent communication between GB organizers and people in this thread, mods should make the organizers provide proof of purchase from the keycap manufacturers before the 60 day mark goes past.
This is a little rant, but at the same time I'm not like a lot of people on this forum, I don't believe everyone will come around through time.
But really, there is absolutely no excuse for no communication for over a month. I even get internet while I'm in the middle of the ocean on a cruise, but apparently someone in college can't even be bothered to update a thread where he has thousands of dollars of other peoples money?