I know I'm probably beating a dead horse here, but I'm going to continue to post to this thread so that future iRex iLiad buyers can have it for reference.
I've had another email conversation with their "iRex Shop" department (btw, they never sign their emails with their real names, they're like "The Borg"
). They said (and I quote) "Your unit has already been shipped but the shipping department has not yet informed us of the tracking number". Yuuuppieee (I said to myself), I'm finally going to get it. Well ... wrong.... I called their offices again today and the person answering the phone got in touch with this elusive shipping department and confirmed that the unit _HAS NOT_ been shipped at all and it will probably not be shipped this week (obviously, since it's Friday evening).
It's one thing for them to "guess" when they're going to ship and fail to meet that deadline, it's a completely different thing to explicitly tell me that it has been shipped (but for God-knows what reason they don't have a tracking number) and be actually lying to my face. Guessing is one thing, lying to your clients is a totally different thing.
I haven't cancelled my order with them yet, I guess I'm still hoping they will get their s**t in order and ship the damn thing... but my patience won't last very long ...
Razvan