Donation: paypal troubles (fixed)

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Does subsim have snail mail?

Yup,

Neal Stevens, Subsim
5108 Woodville Lane
Pearland, TX 77584

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Yes, check or cash can be mailed to the address above. Be sure to include your forum nickname, so I can upgrade your account.

Originally Posted by Dowly

Yup,

Neal Stevens, Subsim
5108 Woodville Lane
Pearland, TX 77584

I could never remember the address. But I can drive there from memory.


Last year around Easter I did a drive by scowling.

[August]

I'm sending my donation out via snail mail.

[Skybird]

Having gotten the email confirmation by Paypal for the transaction over my "new" account, I just realized that although i signed a new account, they seem to have not formed a new one, but linked the form's data to the old one, and reactivated it.

I note that due to a spelling mistake in my data, which was present in the old one, and now is back in the "new" one.

Point is: back then I erased my banking data from the old pp-account, then send them an email that they should shut down the whole account and delete it, instead of it just hibernating until reactivation.

And they sent a confirmation they would do.

And now this...?

Just confirms my deep mistrust I have for banks in general, and online payment things in general. You are not master of your own data, you cannot unlist from such services if you want that, and once the genie is out of the bottle, you never get it back into it. Even worse is when your stuff is on foreign servers. You have nothing but their smiling faces to believe in. What really is being done with all that stuff, you have absolutely no clue of.

I have sent them an email with a request for them explaining themselves.

Reminds me of the fingertip scanner in the new iPhone. German authorities are warning against using that function, and the reason has far greater validity: biometric characteristics that can be used for ID-ing you, stick with you for all your life. If you store them carelessly in many foreign places over which you have no control whatever, and use them inflationary, this can badly backfire against you if somebody gets his hands onto them and abuses them criminally. Apple says the fingertip gets stored on the device and the data cannot be accessed. How stupid do they think people are? It will get hacked, of course, and of course criminal energy can get such data out of your handy. And this time you cannot heal the problem by just logging a new email adress or changing all your PINs and codewords.

I do not trust these things. My deep distrust for these digital things is already encoded within my genes. I do not like this new world forming up. And I do not think it is friendly. Being controlled and monitored and personally recorded, is not friendly, but a hostile act meant to control, expose and lock you, defenselessly.

[Mr Quatro]

I know what you mean sky about banking ... some people have no choice except to just go along with whatever they want when they want it.

I had a savings account with an unnamed bank that included keep the change on all my transactions and transferring it to my savings account. The amount came to a couple of hundred dollars a year, but then the bank started charging a fee if you didn't have a minimum of $400 in your savings account.

So I canceled keep the change and they still charged me the fee so I canceled the whole savings account keeping the checking account, with me so far?

Three months go by and they charge me $10 for not having enough in my, by now non excitant, savings account. I called them up and told them that I didn't even have a savings account and she said well you forgot to inform us of this and we charged you anyway ...

How about that new subsim fund raiser graphics in the header...
makes me thirst for SHVI

[Onkel Neal]

Yeah, that graphic represents the current progress. I may shut the fundraiser down a day early, we are almost there.

Dowly, I will leave the donation page intact, but I will still feature the normal subscription model, it makes everything automatic, and my life easier

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Dowly, I will leave the donation page intact, but I will still feature the normal subscription model, it makes everything automatic, and my life easier

Goodie!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Yeah, that graphic represents the current progress. I may shut the fundraiser down a day early, we are almost there.

Dowly, I will leave the donation page intact, but I will still feature the normal subscription model, it makes everything automatic, and my life easier

So I will ask you again for the link next year. Makes for a nice new old thread...

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

I know what you mean sky about banking ... some people have no choice except to just go along with whatever they want when they want it.

I had a savings account with an unnamed bank that included keep the change on all my transactions and transferring it to my savings account. The amount came to a couple of hundred dollars a year, but then the bank started charging a fee if you didn't have a minimum of $400 in your savings account.

So I canceled keep the change and they still charged me the fee so I canceled the whole savings account keeping the checking account, with me so far?

Three months go by and they charge me $10 for not having enough in my, by now non excitant, savings account. I called them up and told them that I didn't even have a savings account and she said well you forgot to inform us of this and we charged you anyway ...

One thing is for certain: if I ever succeed in turning into a grumpy old man and feeling like wanting to turn my back on all this digital madness they only impose on us in order to make us all easier controllable and governable and expose us in a completely weak and defenseless state towards state and business, I will not just switch off the wire of internet cable and telephone, but will completely shut down all my insurance and bank accounts as well without any "transfer servicing" which is only meant to hand them over the keys to your new life, so to speak. Then i will wait a little while and then start a completely new bank account with a foreign bank, if I still need it.

If they leave us papermoney anyway. Like there was a reason why they enforced us to give up gold-covered value-money for inflationary printed papermoney, there also is a reason why in the EU they are training and psychologically preparing people to give up paper money for digital money next. The answer is this: control. The totally transparent and helpless "citizen" sitting right in the center of the totally unlimited focus of government and business ambitions. Computer and digitalization make it possible. And those craving for power and control and profit, will use what is possible, to maximum effect.