Quoted from Cenobyte:

Please, please, pleeeeease remember that guys! I'm not trying to convince you not to take a refund (well, I might be a bit ). I'm only trying to bring some balance to this thread that started out very one-sided and looked like a regular lynch mob at first. Things could have been handled better, Phil should have kept stuff in-house, Barry & Jaap should have acted sooner and the license issues should have been addressed better (although I am sure that this part of this discussion is painted worse than it actually is).
It's all water under the bridge now. If you want a refund then you should get one, I'm not going to argue that, but I'm with Burningman on the consequences: you'll loose the chrome & rug and you should get a new place in line. But you will have your money back in the bank and if that reassures you, do it! I'm staying in. Not for the chrome, not for the rug, maybe a bit for my place in line, but most of all because I believe in these guys and I think they cut some corners but they don't deserve ALL of the shit they got in this thread.

Quoted from pinballslave:

What if the reason they didn't want Phil to leave is because Phil made a mess of the business and that's why he wanted out. He seemed responsible for the USA business and also posted that there may be an issue with the IRS. If that's the case then maybe that's why they wanted him to get out so easily. That would be a good deal: first mess up the company and then leave... After this the USA company is even in more problems, so I somehow get why they didn't just let him leave. Also taking over an Inc. when you're Dutch is probably not that easy and will take time...

Quoted from toyotaboy:

Pretty sure at least one machine stayed in chicago. Scott Denesi is local and he's working on code, need a machine to test out code.
http://www.thebiglebowskipinball.com/about_us
Of course that doesn't excuse 2 guys paying for airfare to fly back. I think the machine sells itself, why squander money to promote it?