FWIW, while Ivan left us with the impression that the order to GMK had gone out, he never really outright lied in this thread. He was asked many times if the order had been sent out, but he never answered that important question by himself (which was kind of suspicious). All he ever said himself was that things are taking longer than expected and will go on at some point. He did leave that important information out, but didn't make actual false statements.
I don't want to excuse this behaviour, in fact it doesn't really make too much of a difference, because he also didn't correct HoffmanMyster's statement that the order had gone out, and he probably lied to HoffmanMyster (we don't know how he phrased it to him).
Where it does make a difference: as slim as the chance of this actually happening may be, in my book Ivan still has the chance to step up, give an explanation or an excuse as to why he delayed the actual order to GMK, and either go on with the actual order or refund everyone. In my book, he has a certain time, maybe two weeks or a month, to come up with a solution for the situation.
If he doesn't take that chance, shouldn't there be a way to press fraud charges against him? I'm pretty sure that our money is lost in that case, and I don't think there's an effective way for us to get it back in US civil law, but shouldn't there at least be a way to have him punished by penal law for fraud? How does this work in the USA? There must be a way to press charges against someone without living in the same county.
