Yeah the same thing almost happened to me with my options offer.
The time from the date of mailing in Australia to the cut of time was simply to short to allow many overseas investors to access this offer.
I telephoned Burey Gold and spoke with Susmit Shah the Company Secretary about this and he told me the dates were set down by the Share Registry and that Burey didnt have too much to do with it, which I am sceptical about.
Readers in Australia may find this hard to believe but New Zealand Post qouted me 7 to 8 days for the airmail service to Australia and considering I received the offer with 7 days to go - on a weekend - I wasnt happy.
Compounding the situation is the fact that my bank, which is a major NZ bank, can only produce on the spot International Bank Drafts at 5 branches throughout the country so I had to wait a further 24hrs!!
My solution was to courier the application using DHL track and trace and even this took 3 days! I cant believe it. I tracked the package and it was delivered with a couple of hours to spare so I wait with interest the confirmation of my Burey options.
Now I realise that this is a 3rd World Country, as do most NZ'ers, but Australian Companies must also take it into account with offers such as this one and allow overseas investors more time to arrange money/post etc.
Cheers