Seems like he was okay as long as he didn't get too big for his britches. Though that incident mentioned in the video where he threatened a reseller for essentially improving one of his products and then reselling it (the reseller was treating their blocks to prevent nickle flaking) was really obnoxious. Maybe that was a sign of things to come.
It was sidewinders computers if you want to know the retailer.
They went out of business a long time ago.
I remember when this happened, as it blew up on the forums.
They were all blaming the silver being the culprit, when it was poor nickle plating.
Also Chinese distributors were not sending 100% pure silver, or was masking sterling silver as pure silver, which isn't the same thing as 99.999 pure silver.
Sterling silver is an alloy while pure silver is pure silver.
This killed the entire kill coil market which i still use in my system, as i am one of the founding fathers of the original Iandh Kill Coils, which had no problems. I also have a lot saved for future builds, as Iandh and i went though many prototypes before the kill coil actually hit market.