I don’t hold the Grin council responsible, just Transatoshi. All 6x Zelle payments went to Nonia Siske (transatoshi_MW) at nonia_mw@proton.me. I was told these would be listed on eBay if I didn’t buy them, but no eBay buyer is going to wait a month or more for the seller to ship before opening a case. Regardless, I waited a full 6 months before condemning this conclusively as a deliberate exit scam.
After learning about this thread, Transatoshi resigned from the Grin community council (final post). This thread was created to incentivize shipping, a form of public accountability with one’s reputation on the line. My only practical recourse since I took the risk of purchasing outside of eBay and/or PayPal G&S, at the request of Transatoshi.
In retrospect, it was fishy that more and more kept being offered without ever having the time, shipping box, packing material, scale to weigh, tools to craft the cables for the custom PSUs, transportation, health, or memory (forgot was an excuse given) to ship.
Around this same time, no one ever received a pool payout after pointing to Transatoshi’s pool. We were to receive 50ツ + our share of the blocks found.