Could be wrong, but I think there's only been about 3 AWF (updated SWF's) purchased through contests, so definitely a rare bird!
As for my 2 cents on this string of posts........ when I go onto other guitar and effects forums and I read the posts, it's crazy ridiculous how many of them turn into bashing things. I love that this forum is not like that. I understand that these things will always happen from time to time, but here it is so few and far between and I love that. I really dig BJF's creations and I'm happy to be a part of a forum of people who are equally passionate about his work. I don't know Cobra or Analoghog personally, but if I had to guess, I'd bet that both of them are really stand-up guys. I have had great pedal transactions with Analoghog, so I have to say, he's a quality guy in my book and I'd buy a pedal from him again in a heartbeat, thanks Analoghog!!!!!!!
Here's a little guess that I have conjured up from my own experiences as to why this all happened......... you come home from work only to find out that a BJF pedal is for sale that is over a personal price range you told yourself you'd be willing to pay for it or it was in your range and it just got sold and for either of those reasons you missed it. It's a really hard pedal to find and it upsets you because it's like a goal that was set that didn't get reached, you dwell on it for a day and it makes your more upset, another day passes and you're still upset because that's the tone you've been looking for and it's soooooo hard to purchase it!!!! Probably I'm not the only one who has felt this way about just missing a BJF pedal. I can see how in that state of mind, someone would voice a misdirected opinion that was probably coming more from a place of being upset about not having that tone......... sort of like getting mad at your wife or your girlfriend about something that's not her fault, in the heat of the moment you yell and say stuff you don't mean and then after a few days of her constantly reminding you about the things that you said to her, you realize, wooooops, probably shouldn't have taken that out on her cuz it wasn't her fault! Hopefully that's sort of what this situation was, but instead of female loving, it was pedal loving at fault.