Swif...I feel your pain in that I know what you are talking about as a good friend of mine went into the same kind of deal with Ed as you did... only to deal with the same issues of going back and forth for almost a year. My friend paid for the humidor and waited nearly 6 months to get his product...there was always some kind of issue with why the humidor wasn't finished and phone calls, emails and such went on far too long. My friend didn't want to out Ed because of his popularity on many of the Cigar Forums but the way he was being treated just was too much to deal with. While Ed does make some beautiful humidors his sense of purpose to deal with his clientèle leaves a lot to be desired. As a result my friend stopped posting on cigar forums and withdrew his time from helping a ton of cigar/pipe people because he was so discouraged...he took a lot of flak from friends of Ed and it was totally wrong of them to pile on as they did. Ed needs to rethink how he does business and only build humidors that he knows he can get out to those who order from him. JMHO
Sorry to hear about your friend and him leaving the cigar community. I felt the same way at first. you can see I did not post here for some time. A lot of that had to do with this problem and thinking about what to do.
As I search more I see the great work ED has done and see he is moving humidors. This causes me to wonder why he can not do what is right for the customers that receive humidors with problems.
I can say I did feel the pressure from Ed's friends or people looking to protect Ed on antoher forum. I am not longer a memeber as to told the Admins, "If I can not express my thoughts and opinons to others about cigar business expreiances I have then I do not need to be apart of the communty" for that forum.
As I stated and will continue to state. Be careful if buying from waxing moon. reseach and work soem kind of deal for payment or have a contract drawn up incase you may have problems when the humidor arrives.