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Yes, it's a commodity very necessary, and very much in demand!
Thanks Marcus - a position I've not been in for all of my 26 years self employed. Does nothing to stir creativity. Hopefully, things will get better!
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Just rechecked my emails on the PC. I got an email saying my owl had been sent out on the 13th of May. Not here yet.
Im worried more about my memory now than the mod. Starting to think the head injury from the crash did more damage than first thought.
Im worried more about my memory now than the mod. Starting to think the head injury from the crash did more damage than first thought.
Just spent an hour on the phone to Natwest fraud department.
"HELP!!! I've been robbed"
Went to the cash point and noticed the balance a bit light.
So came home and checked my online statement.An employment agency in Chester had taken £558 from my account.
On a card holder "not present" withdrawal.Never heard of these people until today.
Satisfied the fraud officer and he said funds would be replaced by 9pm this evening and chop your card and we'll sent a new one.
Shouldn't be allowed to happen,taking funds from an account without the person present or their pin number being entered in some form.
Be careful folks,there are Bandits out there.
"HELP!!! I've been robbed"
Went to the cash point and noticed the balance a bit light.
So came home and checked my online statement.An employment agency in Chester had taken £558 from my account.
On a card holder "not present" withdrawal.Never heard of these people until today.
Satisfied the fraud officer and he said funds would be replaced by 9pm this evening and chop your card and we'll sent a new one.
Shouldn't be allowed to happen,taking funds from an account without the person present or their pin number being entered in some form.
Be careful folks,there are Bandits out there.
I think I'll leave it a few days, not planning on any other orders from FT that soon and these things often magically jump to in stock with no notice. Other things I'm considering buying in the near future won't be from FT, the mutation x v4 or the bullet rda and I'm interested in the silverplay RTA or another dual coil RTA.
More i think about this,smells of fish.
Possibly bank error?
a. They agreed to reimburse too easily.Just on my sayso.
b. If i was going to be done by internet/phone fraud would it be by a company 14 miles from where i live?
Who knows,but i'm glad i spotted it.
So sorry to hear about that George! It does happen, and all too often it seems. Always good to hear that a bank or CC company puts things right.
Any transaction that is made over the phone is a card holder not present, so there's plenty of those happening every day ...just did one myself not ten minutes ago for a canvas being made. If they have enough information, they can do it. Wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't even the employment agency, but some low life hacker.
I think there could be a way the bank made the error with a genuine transaction for someone else, but of course, the alternative is that the company had been 'used' for fraudulent transactions by a third party.
You may never know the true facts.
We've had a lousy day too. Took me a long time on the phone to find out, but Royal Mail have 'stolen' a package sent to me from London: they sent it to Belfast as 'hazardous' and may destroy it! It's actually hair mousse!!! At the worst, some has leaked and the parcel smells nice! So they put it on a plane to Belfast! Where's the logic ....and when they find it isn't really hazardous, they could just discard the problem tin of it and send on the rest, but from what I hear from other people, they just destroy the lot. Who says they can do that with other peoples property? !
Also, our brand new hob decided it wouldn't work properly, so a week ago they sent a man to look - he said he needed new parts - he came back today ..with the wrong parts!!
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Years ago Trish.My father had an in depth tax investigation on him and his business.
Put the poor fella thru' hell demanding to know where certain monies had come from.And my father didn't have the answers.
They had him so wound up he couldn't think straight,and for him that was unusual.
Turns out the bank had been paying the interest from someone elses investments into my fathers account.
And you guessed it no apologies were offered either by bank or taxman.
Put the poor fella thru' hell demanding to know where certain monies had come from.And my father didn't have the answers.
They had him so wound up he couldn't think straight,and for him that was unusual.
Turns out the bank had been paying the interest from someone elses investments into my fathers account.
And you guessed it no apologies were offered either by bank or taxman.
That's dreadful, and he won't have been the first person such a thing has happened to. I'd be terribly worried and upset if it happened to me. (Real criminals don't seem to worry as much!)
It's something that I always feel a degree of concern about - we seem to fear the IR more than we do the law ...but then, that's about right for decent, honest people.
Every year when I send the details to the accountants, I hope that all will be well - I never sell anything 'off the books', or claim anything in expenses that aren't genuine, but it's knowing how random and unreasonable these people can be that makes me concerned - especially in the past few years when the recession effects really had an effect on galleries, and I worry in case the IR start to wonder why there's not so much going through my books now! They can see there's nothing extra in my bank account/savings though, so hopefully that's enough.
In your Fathers case, I'd at least expect compensation from the bank because it was their fault.
I grew very disillusioned with run of the mill high street banks around 20 years ago, so moved all our accounts to Nationwide - brilliant! Only problem I ever had was with a new jobsworth manager only last year who said I couldn't pay in cheques made out to Trisha, but that they should be made out to my full 'Mrs' name - So, was she telling me they'd been doing it wrongly for almost 20 years prior to her appointment? ...I thought not!
...it was actually in black and white in my account details on the bank computers, but I did have to tell her to go and take a look!After the fiascos of the day, I'm almost afraid to check my bank tonight - posted a rare cheque to them yesterday, and want to see if it arrived - think I'll wait until tomorrow ..may be a more auspicious day
That's dreadful, and he won't have been the first person such a thing has happened to. I'd be terribly worried and upset if it happened to me. (Real criminals don't seem to worry as much!)
It's something that I always feel a degree of concern about - we seem to fear the IR more than we do the law ...but then, that's about right for decent, honest people.
Every year when I send the details to the accountants, I hope that all will be well - I never sell anything 'off the books', or claim anything in expenses that aren't genuine, but it's knowing how random and unreasonable these people can be that makes me concerned - especially in the past few years when the recession effects really had an effect on galleries, and I worry in case the IR start to wonder why there's not so much going through my books now! They can see there's nothing extra in my bank account/savings though, so hopefully that's enough.
In your Fathers case, I'd at least expect compensation from the bank because it was their fault.
I grew very disillusioned with run of the mill high street banks around 20 years ago, so moved all our accounts to Nationwide - brilliant! Only problem I ever had was with a new jobsworth manager only last year who said I couldn't pay in cheques made out to Trisha, but that they should be made out to my full 'Mrs' name - So, was she telling me they'd been doing it wrongly for almost 20 years prior to her appointment? ...I thought not!
After the fiascos of the day, I'm almost afraid to check my bank tonight - posted a rare cheque to them yesterday, and want to see if it arrived - think I'll wait until tomorrow ..may be a more auspicious day
My father said it's no laughing matter when you hear that key turn in the door behind you.
They locked him in the interview room incase he did a runner.
He said when he used to look at his bank balance he thought, "we are doing well,i'm doing something right"
Funny you don't question it when there appears more money in your account than you expected.
This is the type of thing that they shouldn't be allowed to do unless they think they have just cause - they should not be able to treat people as though they have/had criminal intent until they can prove it to be so.
Before I was self-employed, I'd have perhaps shrugged and thought little of it - but since being self-employed, I track everything that appears in either of our accounts until I find out what it is and where it came from ..and I then mark anything on my own account down on the statements so that the accountants can see what things are when they check my accounts.
I think that caution may stem from my initial meeting with my accountants in York back in the 90's ...I realised with surprise half way through the meeting that it was they who were vetting me as a potential client, and not me checking them out!
After 45 minutes, I was asked to take a wander around for half an hour and then return - they then informed me that they'd be happy to accept me as a client!
- oddly enough though, it made me feel very much reassured that things were in good hands.They question anything and everything that could cause IR to ask questions, that way, they always hope to pre-empt any such queries.
No fortunes to calculate tax affairs for, but they always get the tax due to within 1p of what IR requests.
Their senior accounts partner is an ex tax inspector, and they also have an ex VAT inspector too to advise on matters. As such, they are well respected by IR and intend to keep their good reputation - hence them checking me out so intensely, and me in turn making sure I know exactly where everything showing on statements came from -even internal transfers.
You could say I started out scared!
Good! At least you can stop worrying about that!
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Sigelei Mini update:
I said the screen went off right away ...it doesn't exactly - it dims. It's very dim though, and has to be in a non-reflective light to see it. If I didn't know what the ohms & volts should read, I wouldn't be able to read it easily. As it is, I can just make out the battery level and the wattage.
Charging - as far as I could tell, it needs to be unplugged and the fire button pressed to see whether it's fully charged.
It states in the instructions that it needs to be charged with less than 800mA. (I was using 1A, and use that for iSticks, Cloupor, MVP's & iPOW's) nearest I have is a 500mA usb plug.
I tried an Evod on it using an adapter - works perfectly! (I still use an Evod for coil clogging liquids such as MCV as the coils last longer).
Me saying them probably confused you, them meant the o-rings that he was waiting for, so yes cancel just the one item (them o-rings)
Ha-ha! Dem dratted things!Me saying them probably confused you, them meant the o-rings that he was waiting for, so yes cancel just the one item (them o-rings)
you still grumpy ....
Dual coiled using 9 wraps 28g 3mm dia to get 1 ohm - bit awkward to fit due to screws not really good - would have been nicer with grub screws that seem to grab the wire better, tried with Welsh Custard and it vapes lovely, but it needs a preheat before I vape with the dual coil @ 1ohm, so I think it needs maybe only 5 wraps on each coil to bring it down to about 0.5 ohm
EDIT: just chopped 2 wraps off each end of the coils I made bringing them down to 5 wraps each and it's much better. Thing that worries me though is how long the bottles will last they are made of very soft plastic, whereas most of my squonkers have a slightly harder plastic bottle, but as they are regular 10ml bottles should be easy to replace with something a bit harder.
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Thing is I've waited for somewhere to get that size of o-rings in for a reasonable price for aaaages. They're for the quasar rda as I've shredded the o-ring that came installed and the spare by taking the barrel on/off and FT got them a few weeks ago, the only other place I could find them was o-ring specialists on ebay for about £3 so I thought I'd wait.
@Bobw1951 how airy is the draw on the mutation x v4 with only the bottom air flow open?
@Bobw1951 how airy is the draw on the mutation x v4 with only the bottom air flow open?
Mine was shipped on the 14/05, so hopefully yours will be with you tomorrow - hope not on the latter.
Not nice, at least you spotted it fairly quickly - it doesn't sound like the regular type though, usually what they do is make a small purchase to see how it goes then start buying high priced items like phones that they can then sell on, or if they also get the pin, empty your account through the ATMs. Have you made a purchase over the phone in the past month (that's what "not present" means), if so the person you spoke to may have either used your card number or passed it on.
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