Right now the revolutionists are up to their usual dirty tricks in Nepal, and the Government can't keep the power on all day. So 7 hours without power and the HI shop manager can't get to the net or phone. HI can't fill orders very well with the communication hit and miss. Yangdu wanted you to know this. It is very trying to get the Kamis to produce the desired products. Under these circumstances it is even harder for Yangdu. She's been pulling her hair out. Nothing changes, I'm convinced Bill would say.
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Yes, Things do work different in Nepal.
Now, here in the USA everything is fine. Take my credit cards, for instance. I got a few nowadays, because of a credit union turning me down for a car loan in the days I didn't have enough 'credit'. It's all in the card, man. You can pay cash for years and be honest and good but that means nothing in this strange world they created. You need plastic. You need a record THEY can see. So I go plastic.
I got a funny call a couple weeks ago from someone with a 'foreign' accent, saying they were from the This and That Card Company. I'd been up all night with two sick kids and I was tired. I'm afraid I gave them information one is not to give. Sigh. So I get wise by the end of the call, and afterwards call This and That Card Company and they tell me, "No way, we never called you." Not sure of what I told the badguys, I go online to alert the credit reporting agencies and place a fraud alert. Only those agencies can't process my legal once a year free credit report, which I figure I'd better look at right away. I try all of them. Then I give up and just try to place the fraud alert. You must call for this. There is no other way without a paid account. OK, I'll try calling them. Hopeless. If you can't supply an answer to the questions the software asks, it just keeps repeating them or cuts off the call. I spent 4 hours and finally got a fraud alert placed, but did not see my credit report.
I've just spent a week worrying some crook is spending my money with my name. It's been fun.
So I paid for the report. Pleased to see you, Mr. Munk, and that report will be here right away for you. No 'processing' glitch at all....
But a week goes by and no access code arrives in the mail... And I get another funny call; this time they know my credit limit but not that the card was cancelled. I call back This and That Card Company.
"I have the 800 number they called me from, according to caller ID, and the number they told me to call." I tell This and That, expecting immediate help.
"So your new card will be there in a few days, Mr. Munk, is there anything else we can help you with?"
"HUH? I'm not askiing about my replacement account, I'm giving you traceable numbers you can work with. Other This and That Account members may be affected by the same group making these calls."
"Mr. Munk, those numbers are certainly not ours, and your new card will arrive next week."
Next week I call This and That to tell them the progress of the Police Report I've filed. I learn my replacement card has been cancelled, and that I called last week to complain I never recieved it. They erased the account for me.
HUH? I never called them about that damn card. I called them about the phone numbers...
"Wait a minute," I said, 'what a bunch of nimcompoops. You mean you did nothing with those numbers, but cancelled my card without telling me?"
Then I had an idea; what if the people calling me really were from This and That- an arm of the organization that the other arm did not know about??
"Are you sure those numbers aren't yours, that it isn't another vendor of yours calling me, and all of this has been for nothing, the fraud report, the worry, the hurt credit; everything? I tell her this.
"You be careful what you say, Mr. Munk, we need to be very careful. We take care of our customers. We'll call the reporting agencies and tell them what happened if neccesary. You'll be fine."
"Be careful? Yes, I'll be careful."
I imagine they've now documented I am abusive on the phone. She goes on:
"Well, this number is ours, I can tell you...(the one the caller told me to call for authenticity.) We'll look into it, and give you a call right back, and we apologize for any inconvenience. They should have told you they cancelled the card when you called to complain it never arrived."
I call the suspect numbers. Sure enough, one is from This and That. But the other is still suspicious; the recorded voice merely says, "Credit Services", and does not identify a bank. It could still be a fraud ring. Or it could be This and That lost me sleep for a week, and cost me money to request my credit report, and injured my credit with a fraud alert....
I just don't know. Things work different in the USA. They never called back. I'm certain they're still doing research. They're just being thorough. Meticulous.
If there's a attack on your credit and you want to warn the reporting agencies and any new provider, it is very difficult to. Thousands of dollars could have disapeared by the time I finally did get to look at my credit and check for new accounts or strange activities. Thousands of dollars that are insured and you and I pay for.
The access code to my credit report never arrived in the mail. I waited on the phone this morning and finally got a person who released the info to me.
It's a law that you can look at your credit report; they just make it nearly impossible. When you pay for it it's no longer impossible. And the actual report was filled with errors. No wonder they had a problem and couldn't process the fraud request. My home wasn't where THEY said it had been.
But it would help Yangdu considerably if things in Nepal would smooth out. Then she could relax and spend an evening calling her credit card companies to see what they've been up to... You know, instead of paying a hundred bucks an hour as she did last week, for some Gitch to go through her computer sales program...and look! He finally finds the 'problem' after only Eight hours. Gee. Must of really been a sneaky problem. An all-day tangle. One of those Eight Hundred Dollar problems.
Lights on or lights out, it's the same planet.
munk
(the forum managers can move this thread if it's in the wrong place)
Yes, Things do work different in Nepal.
Now, here in the USA everything is fine. Take my credit cards, for instance. I got a few nowadays, because of a credit union turning me down for a car loan in the days I didn't have enough 'credit'. It's all in the card, man. You can pay cash for years and be honest and good but that means nothing in this strange world they created. You need plastic. You need a record THEY can see. So I go plastic.
I got a funny call a couple weeks ago from someone with a 'foreign' accent, saying they were from the This and That Card Company. I'd been up all night with two sick kids and I was tired. I'm afraid I gave them information one is not to give. Sigh. So I get wise by the end of the call, and afterwards call This and That Card Company and they tell me, "No way, we never called you." Not sure of what I told the badguys, I go online to alert the credit reporting agencies and place a fraud alert. Only those agencies can't process my legal once a year free credit report, which I figure I'd better look at right away. I try all of them. Then I give up and just try to place the fraud alert. You must call for this. There is no other way without a paid account. OK, I'll try calling them. Hopeless. If you can't supply an answer to the questions the software asks, it just keeps repeating them or cuts off the call. I spent 4 hours and finally got a fraud alert placed, but did not see my credit report.
I've just spent a week worrying some crook is spending my money with my name. It's been fun.
So I paid for the report. Pleased to see you, Mr. Munk, and that report will be here right away for you. No 'processing' glitch at all....
But a week goes by and no access code arrives in the mail... And I get another funny call; this time they know my credit limit but not that the card was cancelled. I call back This and That Card Company.
"I have the 800 number they called me from, according to caller ID, and the number they told me to call." I tell This and That, expecting immediate help.
"So your new card will be there in a few days, Mr. Munk, is there anything else we can help you with?"
"HUH? I'm not askiing about my replacement account, I'm giving you traceable numbers you can work with. Other This and That Account members may be affected by the same group making these calls."
"Mr. Munk, those numbers are certainly not ours, and your new card will arrive next week."
Next week I call This and That to tell them the progress of the Police Report I've filed. I learn my replacement card has been cancelled, and that I called last week to complain I never recieved it. They erased the account for me.
HUH? I never called them about that damn card. I called them about the phone numbers...
"Wait a minute," I said, 'what a bunch of nimcompoops. You mean you did nothing with those numbers, but cancelled my card without telling me?"
Then I had an idea; what if the people calling me really were from This and That- an arm of the organization that the other arm did not know about??
"Are you sure those numbers aren't yours, that it isn't another vendor of yours calling me, and all of this has been for nothing, the fraud report, the worry, the hurt credit; everything? I tell her this.
"You be careful what you say, Mr. Munk, we need to be very careful. We take care of our customers. We'll call the reporting agencies and tell them what happened if neccesary. You'll be fine."
"Be careful? Yes, I'll be careful."
I imagine they've now documented I am abusive on the phone. She goes on:
"Well, this number is ours, I can tell you...(the one the caller told me to call for authenticity.) We'll look into it, and give you a call right back, and we apologize for any inconvenience. They should have told you they cancelled the card when you called to complain it never arrived."
I call the suspect numbers. Sure enough, one is from This and That. But the other is still suspicious; the recorded voice merely says, "Credit Services", and does not identify a bank. It could still be a fraud ring. Or it could be This and That lost me sleep for a week, and cost me money to request my credit report, and injured my credit with a fraud alert....
I just don't know. Things work different in the USA. They never called back. I'm certain they're still doing research. They're just being thorough. Meticulous.
If there's a attack on your credit and you want to warn the reporting agencies and any new provider, it is very difficult to. Thousands of dollars could have disapeared by the time I finally did get to look at my credit and check for new accounts or strange activities. Thousands of dollars that are insured and you and I pay for.
The access code to my credit report never arrived in the mail. I waited on the phone this morning and finally got a person who released the info to me.
It's a law that you can look at your credit report; they just make it nearly impossible. When you pay for it it's no longer impossible. And the actual report was filled with errors. No wonder they had a problem and couldn't process the fraud request. My home wasn't where THEY said it had been.
But it would help Yangdu considerably if things in Nepal would smooth out. Then she could relax and spend an evening calling her credit card companies to see what they've been up to... You know, instead of paying a hundred bucks an hour as she did last week, for some Gitch to go through her computer sales program...and look! He finally finds the 'problem' after only Eight hours. Gee. Must of really been a sneaky problem. An all-day tangle. One of those Eight Hundred Dollar problems.
Lights on or lights out, it's the same planet.
munk
