Now the system says that I cannot cancel the order as someone claimed it and the days pending is “2 days”
So if I understand it my mats I need for the next part (crafting a ring) is now stuck for up to 2 days for no good reason if that person decides to do nothing for 2 days?
Not two days, when you pick up a crafting order you only have 30 minutes to fulfil it.
The two days pending is for how long the listing will stay up for crafters to be able to claim it before it is de-listed and you have to try again with a new public crafting order.
That what I usually do with orders that are just too ignorant of the crafter’s efforts…like “make it max and nothing else…there’s 100 g”.
Dicline the the order, start a dungeon, tell the client that you don’t work for that money and when he ask to decline the order just say “I did…oops…must have misclicked start instead of decline…sry mate”.