David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote: of 2013 and got it around a year later. I've run into this too many times over the years with someone who is running a side business. Demand greatly outstrips their work process and the owner is just inclined to keep stringing along the customers with excuses, if any communications at all. Years ago I ordered a lot of equipment from "The TRS-80 Recycler." It took over a year and dozens of really lame excuses before I received it all. Then I saw similar things happen to people who prepaid for those next generation IMSAIs, but they never got theirs. Same thing with a supplier or two in my other hobby, reel-to-reel tape recorders. If I was in that situation I'd probably just stop accepting new orders (i.e. cash) but accept backorders. Tell the buyer honestly how long it might take and charge the money only the day it ships. But often these guys *need* the money and keep accepting it, which is just a wrong thing to do.