After paying our pound of flesh, we expected a vendor to send us a software lease license post haste. After waiting for a few days, we asked the vendor why the license hadn’t shown up yet.
Their response? Their server room was flooded, so they weren’t able to pull up their records and send us our purchase.
For want of a drain hole, a week’s worth of time was lost.
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
A pound of flesh? hmmm, unless the vendor is operating from Venice.
Its more like a pound of flesh, and two of your kids….
I heard “ang-pao” is sometimes required to make things “smoother”. That’s Malaysian business.