I was recently in India and getting anything besides hash (which I can't use) was impossible. In these countries why doesn't someone buy in bulk from a bigga and then use lb to sell domestically themselves?

At their worst they are orders of magnitude more benevolent. They kill people's patience, not people.

That happens when the bitcoin network is backed up. If you still don't see the payment cleared on lb make sure you have the record of the payment, every bitcoin transaction has one of these and circle should make it easy to find. There is zero reason to worry because you use bitcoins there is never a mystery as to where the money is. Let us know how it goes.