#1 November 17th, 2005 03:56 AM

Belgareth

Member

Financially flattened

I have just recently had all of my credit and debit cards skimmed, leaving me in a financial quandry. Unfortunately it came at a time when my subscription to ISM was due. Hopefully I will be able to recover most of the money in a reasonably short time but my only access to this site is now through this forum.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed in the hope that the lovely ISM administration people won't kick me out cos it's hard enough living on fresh air, with no folio access worth mentioning, without being deprived of the deep and meaningful discussions in here.

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jdudley76

Member

Re: Financially flattened

I would hope they wouldn't boot you out of the forums!

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SCSIgirl

Member

Re: Financially flattened

I have just recently had all of my credit and debit cards skimmed, leaving me in a financial quandry. Unfortunately it came at a time when my subscription to ISM was due. Hopefully I will be able to recover most of the money in a reasonably short time but my only access to this site is now through this forum.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed in the hope that the lovely ISM administration people won't kick me out cos it's hard enough living on fresh air, with no folio access worth mentioning, without being deprived of the deep and meaningful discussions in here.

You could give a Pound of flesh.....   Sorry bad pun.  Please stick around, Bud,  we neeed a voice of reason.  We seem to have lost Trebora,  his 6 weeks of vacation are long up.  It's like watching your classmates disappear.

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shannon

Administrator

Re: Financially flattened

I have just recently had all of my credit and debit cards skimmed, leaving me in a financial quandry. Unfortunately it came at a time when my subscription to ISM was due. Hopefully I will be able to recover most of the money in a reasonably short time but my only access to this site is now through this forum.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed in the hope that the lovely ISM administration people won't kick me out cos it's hard enough living on fresh air, with no folio access worth mentioning, without being deprived of the deep and meaningful discussions in here.

oh Belgareth, uncross your fingers and exhale with the relief of knowing I wouldn't dream of evicting you.

I hope your crisis is soon averted.

Belgareth

Member

Re: Financially flattened

You could give a Pound of flesh.....   Sorry bad pun.  Please stick around, Bud,  we neeed a voice of reason.  We seem to have lost Trebora,  his 6 weeks of vacation are long up.  It's like watching your classmates disappear.

"Pound of Flesh" .... mmmmmmm ... right now I feel a little like Shylock toward whoever raped my finances. "He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses ..........; and what's his reason? ...............If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge..........." (with apologies to the Bard).

Me thinks my voice may be a tad unreasoned right now!

It's a shame we lost Trebora .... maybe he'll be back next summer. I know what you mean about classmates disappearing. We are getting a lot of new voices in the forum, which is good but the earlier members seem to have taken the lemming route and all jumped off the edge together.

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Belgareth

Member

Re: Financially flattened

oh Belgareth, uncross your fingers and exhale with the relief of knowing I wouldn't dream of evicting you.

I hope your crisis is soon averted.

Oh Shannon, you are an absolute Angel, even if you do wear your halo at a rakish angle sometimes. If I could get my bits (or should that be kilobits) down the IP tunnel that links us I would kiss you.

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mikhaill

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Re: Financially flattened

Belatedly -- that does suck, big time. I hope you get it cleared up, and sooner rather than later.

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Belgareth

Member

Re: Financially flattened

Belatedly -- that does suck, big time. I hope you get it cleared up, and sooner rather than later.

Thanks for that. I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

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mikhaill

Member

Re: Financially flattened

Not that it's the same thing as your more severe situation, but my bank recently cancelled my main credit card, informing me that it was "nearby" (in some digital sense) to some dodgy transactions. They insist that nothing questionable has happened on my card, but they're sending me out a new one anyway.

This same bank stopped the same account when I was overseas last year because I hadn't warned them in advance that I would be using the card in other countries.

I've thought this kind of action on their part was over-zealous to say the least but listening to your situation makes me think that banks really do have to be this vigilant (paranoid) these days.

Anyway: as stated before, I hope this is a temporary setback.

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cynicism

Member

Re: Financially flattened

I was lucky. I was using my card in Melbourne when a series of transactions showed up in Florida. The Florida transactions were one-a-day, and always for an amount just below the level that they have to ring for authorisation, so they looked awfully suspicious, anyway. Card people immediately believed me when I reported the Florida stuff as fraudulent, which was nice. Still had to wait for a replacement card, though. Made me glad I had another card (through a different bank).