The naked truth is that Ivan has not attended the thread for a long time, no updates, no information and worst, he had not paid the manufacturer; in the other hand, his reputation prevented people to set a claim within paypal´s window, just under Ivan request; but, at this point, reputation alone is not enough to ask the GB participants to keep waiting even longer until he wanted to answer. while it is his natural responsibility to keep his group buyers informed. His silence is doing this even harder, if he just post an explanation that may mitigate the GB reaction, but not like this.
The only thing is that IMSTO posted about Ivan undergoing a surgery, but even in that case, unless an emergency, he would had the chance to advice people of a longer waiting period than usual.
My two cents.