After a mere six and a half months, my CF Roxannes arrived Monday. They sound great out of the box. The CF on my earpieces is very close to perfect, my case only a bit less so. And my cord don't smell and my nuts are intact. Or should it be my cord is intact and my nuts don't smell? No, that wouldn't be entirely accurate...
What does smell is JHA's "customer service," which seems calculated to eliminate repeat customers. Their approach seems to be "Ignore them and they'll go away eventually." JHA probably realized about 9:03 a.m. on the Monday after BF that they had a big problem. But did they email everyone and say please be patient, we're still a small company and this is gonna take a while, possibly a long while? No, they closed down like the Nixon White House after the Watergate break-in. And it worked about as well. My emails were ignored, phone calls unreturned. Not cool, and not appreciated. Especially after it became pretty clear that orders were being filled out of order, so to speak.
Overall, my worst Head-Fi-related buying experience, no contest. Thank Zarquon the Roxannes fit, I don't think I could have faced sending them back for a re-do. So long, fellow sufferers, and to everyone else - Caveat Emptor.