yes, i hadn't done that yet, and yes, it was quite rude, and frankly pretty satisfying. i work very long hours at a job that pays me money, and then i use that money, which is not money that was paid to me by spamray, to finish production (and, because of the way these things work, i have to produce about 2x what my obligation is, in addition to the budget blowing out for every single ordered kit). this project eats up time and money that i would love to put elsewhere, for example, into a donation to smallfry's family or their choice of charity.
if this were a community group buy, about 20 people would have just dropped out of running it and/or disappeared from the face of the earth. but this isn't. this is my group buy, and even though i am paying for people to make snide remarks about me, i continue to do so. i don't appreciate these snide remarks, and there are many ways that you can extricate yourself from this particular situation such that you would feel no need to make the snide remarks and i wouldn't have to listen to them. yet, here i am.
as you say, i have been held to a certain decorum in the past, but putting one's chin up for people who blame you for pretty much everything bad that happens in their internet and/or consumer life has taken its toll. i will deliver these things to you, but at this point the schedule in which i do that is going to have to live within the realm of possibility, which may not be compatible with your patience. sorry, but that's how it's going to have to work. now if you'll excuse me, i have to manage the quoting out, paying for and logistics of cutting another 50lbs of titanium sheet, test fitment of the new pcb in the old gasket design, design a new fastener system that is reliable and repeatable, work with exotic industrial lubricants to provide something cool and previously unobtainable to the community, and put 60-70 hours a week into the job that pays for all this. does it excuse being late? not really. but them's the breaks sometimes.
i'm in a pretty crappy position, you're in a crappy position (albeit a hundred dollars of crappy position vs a few thousand+), and the least we can do is not try to make it more crappy for each other than it has to be.
thanks.