The whole thing took longer than was stated but not that much extra.
WOW! How can you say that. Do you realize how long its been? On January 8th 2014, in the very first post of this thread, you stated this can "take as much as 5 months to complete after the mass buy ends." By my interpretation, the mass buy ended on April 4th 2014 when Cactus Killer posted "I placed the order for the arms. We should have them soon." I realize that 5 months was an estimate but that 5 months ended at the beginning of September 2014. I got my arms the second week of April 2015. That's a full 7 months later than was expected. To make it worse, the communication from BCB on the status of the arms was almost nonexistent.
As for the powder coating, while it may not be a good idea in your opinion, That is what you advertised and what people expected. While you didn't say they were powder coated in the description, you also didn't say they were not but you did include a picture of the finished product that was powder coated, or at least painted. That IS advertising it as being so. And then to justify the lack of powder coat that's gonna run at least $100 by saying you included 3 pieces of small sheet metal, what a joke. BCB needs to wake up and take a close look at their customer service.
All that being said, I am happy with the arms but had I known it would take a full year to get them, I would have looked to another venter.