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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6345 on: October 13, 2017, 09:49:18 AM »
^Good news indeed.
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6346 on: October 13, 2017, 09:58:49 AM »
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6347 on: October 13, 2017, 12:30:17 PM »
2? how very generous of them.
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6348 on: October 13, 2017, 01:57:10 PM »
2? how very generous of them.

It's a lot more than interest rates on savings accounts nowadays.
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6349 on: October 13, 2017, 03:53:00 PM »
One of those whatnow?
Community Chest cards   from the game Monopoly some are good some are not.  I got one of the the unexpected money ones :2thumbsup:
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6350 on: October 13, 2017, 05:02:36 PM »
Bought an old compass today along with an antique shovel and a big sledge hammer for $5.  I just got around to really looking at it and it is WW2 German marching compass which go for  $60 or so.   :headbang2: 
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6351 on: October 14, 2017, 01:15:12 AM »
Yeah true for the most part hyke.

I am going to move bank as soon as its practical, they treat people like shit. After enquiring what my current interest rate was, I got 'oh you don't get interest'

Sorry fuckers but that and deliberately tricking somebody out of account features they were getting with the promise of things never delivered, along with some other distinctly unsavoury practices (to say the least), moving from those halifax pricks the moment its practical.
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6352 on: October 14, 2017, 01:41:54 AM »
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Yeah true for the most part hyke.

I am going to move bank as soon as its practical, they treat people like shit. After enquiring what my current interest rate was, I got 'oh you don't get interest'

Sorry fuckers but that and deliberately tricking somebody out of account features they were getting with the promise of things never delivered, along with some other distinctly unsavoury practices (to say the least), moving from those halifax pricks the moment its practical.

Wonder if you will find a better bank. Some Swiss banks are even pondering on negative interest now.  :zombiefuck:


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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6353 on: October 14, 2017, 05:22:25 AM »
2? how very generous of them.

It's a lot more than interest rates on savings accounts nowadays.

  Damn right.  My father's parents got 3% interest on their savings account during the Depression.  :orly:
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6354 on: October 15, 2017, 10:26:11 AM »
Shared a lasagna with my dog.
Also, didn't die.  :asthing:

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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6355 on: October 15, 2017, 11:51:17 AM »
Went for a long walk with the pup.
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6356 on: October 16, 2017, 02:40:47 AM »
Theres at least one that offers something like 3%, and IIRC gives you £100 for switching banks to them. And no matter what, I can't get much worse than these bastards, they are liars and penny-pinching cunts. Christ, I've even been lied to (three, maybe four times) about them sending out a new checkbook. I don't use checks very often at all, but I needed (and still do) a new checkbook for the odd foreign place that doesn't have paypal or visa debit facilities, such as one  ethnobotanicals store specializing in african Ubulawu supplies and since I can't login to one of my payment-processor go-throughs I can't order from them until I get a new checkbook.

And the reason for needing a new one is..unusual to say the least. Something melted through a dresser, through the top and carried on burning through the checkbook until not one was usable and they had been turned to dust. I don't know what or when exactly but whatever it was goes through several inches of wood and keeps on going, like the acidic blood of the creatures in the 'alien' series of movies/books and the moment the checkbook was picked up it partially disintegrated, and the rest was all powdery and puffed-up.

Every time its been 'we'll send you a new one right away' and never have I got one, I'm still without one.

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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6357 on: October 16, 2017, 06:31:32 AM »
I made about £500 from switching banks. Then I spent it.
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6358 on: October 16, 2017, 07:07:51 AM »
You are in the UK right FWM? got any tips on making that much? because that could go an awful long way to going straight from my getting the rotavap I've got my eyes on, to the spectrophotometer without much saving, and for that matter, that much would pay for the 99Tc display piece I've seen and want in on before anybody else gets there in on it and leave me a couple of hundred to spare :)
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Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
« Reply #6359 on: October 16, 2017, 08:54:40 AM »
I switched about three times, each bank offering about £125-£200 each time. First Direct wouldn't accept me.  >:( My credit score is perfect. But then, I've rarely borrowed.
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