i hate to say this but X day guarantees on web hosting and not VPSs is not unheard of in the industry (at least for budget VPSs anyway). when I was shopping for VPSs, i definitely ran into feedback for unrelated providers with the exact same complaints. it's unfortunate, but not specific to MT. it would have been a nice gesture had he given a refund, but i'm not sure he is obligated.
UPDATE: in fact I would not be surprised if MT was a reseller of the VPS I ran into above, hostrail.com. hostrail appears to be almost totally offline as well. you can see their somewhat misleading TOS
here. Boy am I glad I cancelled my VPS with them before shit hit the fan and went with another similarly priced VPS that has stellar feedback.