what's left to handle? looks like you asked for a refund within the last few days. you'll get your refund and move on with your life.

and should they have taken just a deposit, and communicated a little better? maybe. but threatening to post on pinside in an effort to encourage them to deliver something to you that they don't physically have, is lame. they offered to make you whole, and you acted like a born yelper, anyway. this thread just serves a warning about you to all future sellers.

OP really should've started the initial post with "I don't normally write reviews like this... ", just to bulletproof his credibility as usually good-willed, but with his back against the wall.

JJ specifically said that Stern told them 4 weeks. Why wouldn't they sell them, and collect the money? They can only go based on what the manufacturer says, not speculate what the time frame might be.

BTW I have a Mando Prem ordered and paid in full since June. My distro isn't happy that he's had to change the expected delivery date 3 times, but his hands are tied. He told me I have the freedom to cancel anytime. I sure as hell didn't go on Pinside and complain about him ripping me off, just because I was REALLY looking forward to getting it when I expected to. Totally childish and bratty.

wow! all that, over a pinball topper.

I sure hope for your sake that it has a unique mode specific to the topper, that if you achieve and complete it, it makes the internet forget that you just wrote that.

there's also an unwritten law that says you shouldn't talk about another man's wife. especially in the context of assaulting her sexually. but that one doesn't seem to apply to the OP either. so maybe the rules just don't apply to him.