simple… the guy who orders today buys a phone, with his credit card. if he doesn’t get a phone, he calls master card and asks them for change back…
You bought a place in a queue for a device that might be manufactured (project backing) so you already got what you ordered.
Except now there is a claim that you holding a place in a queue (that you don’t even know if it is transferable), for a device that might never materialize is worth $100.
As I said before it is not a good deal for a person to pay $700 instead of $800 for a device that doesn’t exist. (you backed a project not bought a device), whereas the guy buying at $800 today is buying a device, not backing a project.
Even if we say that you are shipping a device, a $100 discount to give up all the protections offered to consumers by law is a really really bad deal..
and nobody is suggesting that you should give anyone $200.nobody mentioned $200
What was said was that if you want to sell a phone, sell a phone for $600, sell it for $700 if you like! but be aware you are selling a phone, and if you fail to provide a phone you should refund whatever the person paid you for a phone.
If you want to sell your place in a queue with a chance of getting a device advertise it like that.,
Then act in a manner that conveys trust worthiness!!
You ask what did you do to not be trusted. that’s simply not the way that trust works. you do not automatically trust everyone until a person lets you down, your default state should be skeptical, people work to gain trust. so the answer to the question is nothing, you have done nothing to gain my trust at all, and that is why there is no trust. as far as loosing any level of default feeling like you could take someone at their word… Just have a look at what you wrote.
You say that I’ll have your bank number and that gives me security because I can trace you.
but that’s a lie, it gives me no traceability whatso ever! - and as I said this should be obvious to anybody that ever heard of any internet scams.
Then when I point that out, rather than addressing the argument, of admitting you were wrong, you try to ridicule the advice saying that I don’t trust the police.
I never said I don’t trust the police at all, in fact I do trust the police. I trust them to tell me it is very unfortunate that I lost $700 transferring money to a random guy in Romania, and that I should be more careful how I handle money on the internet in future. - they may even give me a little booklet on how to avoid being scammed online if I’m lucky.
tl;dr, lying about protections that a person has, and then attempting to ridicule people who point out that you lied is not a good way to show that you are trustworthy.
You might be trust worthy, you might not be. I’ve never met you.