Hundshamer's Hard Mod

On February 24, 2016, I attempted to install arm9 loader hax on my o3ds. It went well until actually installing it. I'm not sure what went wrong (I suspect the NAND restore that happened without the tool or the recommended guide at the time telling me about). Whatever the case, I got a blue-screen brick. Unrecoverable without a hard mod. So I ask @hundshamer to do it. He replied pretty quickly, saying he charges $25 for a restore or $40 for a hard mod (not too long after I saw reports of $50) plus $7 return shipping (plus the $6.80 it took for me to ship it). He also said his usual turnaround was 3 weeks. It seemed like a good deal at the time: $54 + 3 weeks to revive a console I killed. And so, I sent my 3DS in the mail and used Google Wallet to give him the $47. He confirmed he recieved my 3DS just two days later, on February 26, 2016.

During the 3 weeks, I would occasionally ask how it was coming.

March 2, 2016
UniqueGeek said:
Sorry to bother you. Judging by your profile messages, you're getting a lot of business.

You said your turnaround has been about 3 weeks, so does that mean you expect to have my 3DS to be finished on the 18th, or do you not know for sure yet?

hundshamer said:
I plan on sooner. I have a week without work, and my wife is going out of town with her mom to visit family. I have to get up early all week too, so I can get the kids off to school. I plan on clearing up my backlog, and shortening my turnaround. I had a move, surgery, and a new job, put me behind. That week will help me bring it back down to a week if at all possible.

March 4, 2016
UniqueGeek said:
If you finish it before March 15th, could you send it to this address:
[address removed]
I'm going to be out of town for a week, and if it's sent to the address I included with my 3DS when I'm not able to get to it, it'll drive me crazy.

hundshamer said:

March 9, 2016
UniqueGeek said:
Any progress?

hundshamer said:
On the line, yes.

UniqueGeek said:
Do you have an ETA?

[qupte=hundshamer]I'm hoping sometime within this and next week. I want 90% or them out.[/quote]

March 17, 2016
UniqueGeek said:
Any progress?
hundshamer said:
Much. I should have the mojority done over the next 2-3 days.

March 25, 2016
UniqueGeek said:
How's it coming? It's been in your possession for 4 weeks, when do you think it will be finished?

March 26, 2016
hundshamer said:
The line is moving.

April 1, 2016
UniqueGeek said:
I can understand that you're busy, but it's been 5 weeks, and I'd like to know if you have an ETA on my 3DS. If not, could you tell me about how many 3DS's are in front of mine in line, and how many you complete per day/week?

April 2, 2016
hundshamer said:
It is like 3rd in line right now.
hundshamer said:
It is 3rd in line.

And now he hasn't even read my PMs, including an important one. On April 25, 2016, I gave him a different address to ship to, and he hasn't read it yet. Since then he's been posting exclusively on his profile page, giving vague updates that we're not entirely convinced are true anymore. The evidence seems to indicate he's been lying.

Chris Randall said:
I have likely waited the longest and I can not be any more infuriated at the stalled progress. As of Feb 3rd 2016, hundshamer has held my 3DS hostage. He promised on multiple times that its complete and ship the following Monday. This went on for weeks on end. I have tried to give him the benefit of the doubt many times, but in the end, this shows carelessness and disregard on his part.

The only indication that anyone's actually received theirs back is @breakingspell.
breakingspell said:
Reporting in, I shipped two consoles on March 12th and paid extra to have one of them done within a week. I finally received them back on April 23rd, and we negotiated a partial refund. Our guy did follow through in the end, but it was not a pleasant transaction in the least, probably one of the last times I do business without conducting research first.
breakingspell said:
Something compels me to keep returning to hundshamer's page to see how much worse this has gotten. I can confirm that in a Skype conversation with hunds, he pointed out that the only reason my consoles shipped that day was because I'd paid extra, but they'd supposedly been done for at least 2 weeks before that. A lot of his stories didn't add up, they became a trickle of excuses.
breakingspell said:
Hunds did deliver in the end, but that's after I'd filed a claim against the Google Wallet payment I'd sent. I'd advise doing the same, especially people that have been waiting since February, this is ridiculous.

hundshamer's most recent status is:
hundshamer said:
I do have a few done, and will try to add to that before I go to the post office on Monday. Thanks for the support.
However, he hasn't been online since Sunday, May 8 at 12pm, so either he doesn't plan on telling anyone he's sent their 3DS's, or he's flat out lying.

I suppose I can give him another week or two. After all, as of May 3rd:
hundshamer said:
I did say that I am busy with finals too, yes? Sometimes the wrong bookmark gets clicked. I am not answering personal PM ATM. I am not accepting new orders yet either. I am not trying to be rude, but if you knew how many PM's I have right now. Most of them are can you do a mod or is my mod done yet. I am working on them as I can. Finals are next week, and they are taking precedence as of right now.

If the underlined bit is true, that makes his exams this week. However, more communication would be nice. In order to respond (or at least read his customers' PMs), it would take, what, an hour?

Anyway, hopefully this documents most of the troubles his customers are going through. Waiting over 11 weeks (7 more than initially indicated) for mods to be completed, and being kept in the dark.
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Mine finally come back today with the hardmod, after having to contact him via email and having google refund my money.
 
@DHall243 Is it modded? Is it working? I hope you pay the guy. You may have cost him money by reversing charges like that...
 
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Its modded and working and yes i repaid him, but it took Emailing and getting a refund to even get a reply from him for over 2 months, I actually paid him what VB Encryption VB charges, $65 because I wanted it back before we left for vacation next week.
 
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I think this blog post is the most active blog post of all blogs on this site. I'm just hanging around to be where the cool kids are.
 
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Yeah, hoping he gets to mine soon. Figured I'd be in the first batch since mine was sent in feebruary but I guess a bunch of people paid extra to bump up theirs. Oh well.
 

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