Hi JonDante, no, not up yet-i'm at a stall.
I called easybuy2k and the tech said to "check the contacts"...I told him they're verified with a volt meter and I need a programmer so he told me to call their sales guy and ask them to sell me one of their used test programmers. So after a somewhat frustrating conversation with the sales guy who kept trying to refer me back to the tech guy he said ok and he'd put a note in...i haven't heard since and i don't know if the programmer is coming. the programmers are either not sold or out of stock everywhere i've looked. i got a pm from someone else who's willing to sell me a used programmer but i cant answer till i know what easybuy is doing. i'm going to call them back tomorrow and see whats going on, after seeing what they've done to xodus i'm tempted to just return the chip and not do any more business with them... i'm kinda impatient though so i'd like to make it work! they have not given a good impression at all, they took longer than promised on the web site and then delivered a bad chip, and now i'm not sure they're even making an effort to fix their mess...
As far as the 48 hour note on their site that is full of crap because they took longer than that just to contact me to "verify" who I am, which now sounds like nothing more than a delay tactic. I'm with everyone on staying away from them from now on!