the more streamlined and limited the options are in the buy, the faster it goes and is usually successful.
Buys where there are lots of options ( sprits GB's for example ) are the ones where things get chaotic and you end up with thousands and thousands of dollars taken from buyers, then have to wait over a year, and still have no contact with sprit and basically are SOL. The most infuriating thing is that he is still allowed to post new GB's and take more money from the community.
But yeah, I don't think anyone here is out to scam people, but I feel like quite a bit with the slower GB's, that all these promises are made for X amount of money, and then when it comes to production, it ends up costing them more money than they expected, and then they find themselves in a hole and either have to front the money themselves, work out finding a different supplier, or altering the promised unit.
I'll say this, I've never had a GB on GH that has run as smooth as promised by the org. Generally if they say it will be delivered in 6 months, I double it and expect it will take a year. I get that real life happens, but orgs. need to be a bit more realistic with their promises, and buyers need to know that delays happen.
In Harrys Tai-ho buy, he's had the final product in hand since Dec, but has not shipped due to stuff he has going on. While I get that life happens, we really need to encourage a productive attitude from the sellers and at the same time, shame orgs that do not make regular updates, or deliver their products in a reasonably timely manor.
And from a new buyers POV, they need to know this is not amazon, and that they are basically giving away money for free to a stranger on the internet and that nothing is guaranteed, they don't have any buyers rights. claims for refund, exchanges, warranties,replacement of damaged/lost goods in shipping, etc. are all at the sole discretion of the org.
I see it on both sides, and unfortunately its a sucky system. GH is smart to basically stay out of it, but complaints are starting to grow,and I'd like to see GH lean towards protecting the buyers as much as they can if they are going to try to get into regulating it a bit.