My admittedly limited experience with large databases is that it's MUCH MUCH MUCH faster to load the tables, and then index them, rather than index while loading. But like I said, it's limited experience. I ran the systems, I wasn't the DBA.
I was talkng about chekhonte's issue, not the other person's. I could care less about the other person's issue, I'm assuming he was being cheap and picked slow boat free shipping.
Yah, fuck them, and the way they ask, and offer to give you your money back (and actually didn't even charge you). And the way they tell you how long they think it'll be. Fuck them. How dare they give good deals, but sometimes take time.
Couldn't be the distributor of the product that caused the delay?