Guys, the issue is not about the delay - it's about the lack of updates and presence on the thread. It's a responsiveness issue. Once you accept a deal and state certain terms (in my case, that the product would be here in two weeks), it is incumbent on the dealer to inform in case of any delay.
With any luck, by the time the things arrive, I shall have no use for them any more. Cables, for example, are a pretty urgent need as they are required (surprise, surprise) to connect existing pieces of equipment. Of course, I cannot expect to wait forever to connect said equipment, so I have already made a duplicate purchase here for some of the items - who will compensate me for that? KMD? Fat chance.
I needed network adapters to connect up a friend's PCs at home. I can wait - he couldn't, so the market section will see those adapters, not us - and there's a potential loss there as well. The problem is the complete silence and unresponsiveness - and I have it on reasonable faith that
1) Most dealers on TE are incurring extremely long delays in procuring orders and fulfilling them - specially for GOs. While this is acceptable and understandable, I see that most are reactive (respond to prodding by members who have paid) rather than proactive (informing buyers the moment there is a delay) - they're not magicians, fair point, but they can keep users informed.
2) Mods cannot/will not do anything beyond PMing the dealer and asking him for a status - which means dealer is secure even if he delays orders or fails to complete them.
So for a dealer, there is, in that sense, no hanging sword - they are paying members of the site, so inappropriate behaviour is tolerated
I expect a rebuttal of this point, btw - and I know there are exceptions to the rule (KMD himself was one such exception, no more apparently).
The beef that everyone has is that KMD has, in a sense, gone internet dark and his entire outfit seems to be simply sleeping, at least from our point of view. The absence of any publicly available telephone number and brick-and-mortar address complicates the issue, so basically as of today the order is in a black hole with no status and no update, and no authoritative ETA. It is all in the air - I don't even know what the progress on the order is - has it been ordered? Is it in the US? India? Has it cleared customs? Is it waiting for a full moon night to be despatched?
I have also ordered many times from KMD. What surprises me is that he was always a plug-and-play guy - order, pay and three weeks later, the product was on your doorstep. The last GO he did that I was part of was the Vantec docks, and it was here in one week, similar with a large bunch of stuff a few years ago for my gaming rig. I have plenty of good stories about KMD deals - but not this time.
