Part of me is thinking i should bother with this post as i might just be 'stoking the fire'. But I'm going ahead with it because, like Jeans, i have way too much free time and nothing better to do.
Part of the problem with this on-goning argument seems to be the suggestion (by Jeans), that $25 isn't a large enough amount of money to be worried about. Now A: Thats US Dollers, its not the same for everybody (For me, in the Au, a dhirt that is $25us is probably gonna cost $30au, and thats based just on the exchange rate, i have no idea how far it could get blown out after international shipping expenses and the like. B: Im on wealfare, so even if i just take that $25us as being $25au it still actually means something when my cash in hand 'income' is all of about $270 a week ($135 of which is used up paying my rent. Then there is the power, gas & water, and the Phone & internet. After all this I'm lucky if I have $50 to buy food and go out and get drunk once a fortnight). So yeah, $25 means more to some than to others.
So: Jeans, dude, people have every right to get pissy over even insignificant amounts of money. You on the other hand dont have any right to coment about it (one way or the other) when they do so. You said in one post that if you were at a Macdonalds and you saw someone getting worked up over thier order being wrong you would tell them that they were being unreasonable (asuming you personaly believed that to be the case). Now, if that upset person were me, and you told me that i was being unreasonable, i would probably break your nose - If theres one thing i hate more than anything else, its being told Im upset for no reason by a complete stranger.
PS: I do actually intend on getting some merch in the near future, any idea how long it would take to get to me here in Australia? (a postcard takes between one and two weeks from previous experience)