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Hi forgive the low post count but I'm at a loss where to turn.
My name's Jamie and I've been classified as disabled with a neurological disorder but there not exactly sure what it is as it only affects all handful of people in the UK. Anyway what brings me here is the fact me and my partner got engaged last year before I got diagnosed and I've had to come out of work we've got a one year old son hso my partner doesn't work. And we want to get married before I have chance to get much worse as the specialists are unsure of what will. happen next. But with neither of us working money is hard to save up. My partner went out with her mother recently and saw the dress of her dreams so much to the point where said she would get married in a back ally if she could have that dress. So my aim is to raise money for the dress and wedding we've planned on a regestry office as it's cheaper and faster, all I've managed to think of to raise money is donations of selling on what with my story and hope people bid for the cause rather than the item.
I'm attaching my paypal donate link to the bottom just incase any feel like helping.
Thanks for reading sorry about the grammer and the long post its not my strongest point.
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Go to job centre and get a claim pack fir dissability living allowance, use their free phone and get a doctor on side and don't take the piss when filling the form out but keep it consistant. If unsure, take it to citizens advice beureau for help. That should help you...
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also , look around ur house put w/e u just have around but dont use on ebay ... for example bikes , 1 is enuff for a family , and all the junk ya never use but is worth somthin etc etc

Updated: Robbed Selling Phone on Craigslist in Atlanta |Robbers in Police Custody Now

So I'm selling a phone on craigslist...a guy calls me this morning wanting to buy my phone...I go to meet up with him at a QT gas station in Decatur, Ga....to make a long story short, there were two guys and they robbed me for my phone and drove off.........well....long story short....my car is faster than theirs and they quickly found out that I had an assault rifle in the car...my phone was promptly returned to me. Then next thing I know, I get a call a few hours later from someone telling me they saw my story on the news...but the guys who robbed me are on the news crying victim (saying they got robbed). Well anyway I went to Dekalb County Police and showed them the receipt for the purchase of the phone, craigslist ads, and online auction ads, and I easily proved I own the phone. Now there's a warrant out for the arrest of the guy who is on the news pretending to be a victim. Moral of the story: You guys out there who use Craigslist..BE CAREFUL!!....especially in Atlanta.
Here's a link to the story (this is what the robber told them): http://www.wsbtv.com/news/28442577/detail.html
Update: The guy who gave the bogus news story is now in police custody (as of 9pm last night) and is facing robbery charges. I interviewed with the reported today and they will broadcast an updated story today. I will post it up when it airs.
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The robbers are in police custody now and Channel 2 news has aired the corrected story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tTwkq8usas

wow, what a great story.

Which ever way it went... BBC son, BBC.

omfg thats epic, there are LOTS of craigslist robberies (myself included, but got my laptop back), and i love hearing the retaliation stories, this is on the top 3 for sure
EDIT: just read the article, wtf is wrong with the media?!? they still make it seem like you are the bad guy, id demand a redaction or reprint with the facts

THUG LIFE!

Solidus_n313 said:
omfg thats epic, there are LOTS of craigslist robberies (myself included, but got my laptop back), and i love hearing the retaliation stories, this is on the top 3 for sure
EDIT: just read the article, wtf is wrong with the media?!? they still make it seem like you are the bad guy, id demand a redaction or reprint with the facts
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Yeah I spoke with Tom Jones over at Channel 2 and informed him of what really happened and the fact that the police will be picking him up (if they haven't already). I also pointed out to him the inconsistencies in his story (the same inconsistencies the detectives noticed from the beginning). He said, when they ran the story they weren't able to speak to anyone besides the guy who robbed me...so they didn't have anything real to go on....my thing is if you couldn't do any fact checking then why the heck did you run the story?!....

hahaha thats hilarious, they were speaking to the CRIMINALS, and let them go anything for a story
at least it had a happy ending!

Story is confusing. It starts of correct talking about the seller got robbed but half way through the article they make it seem like the buyer went after the seller with a gun.
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" I had an assault rifle in the car" !
I live in the UK, sod the robbery having a rifle in the car is far more serious!
But what did the prick think was going to happen going on the news, criminals can be so dumb.
Great story thanks for sharing.

NardVa said:
Story is confusing. It starts of correct talking about the seller got robbed but half way through the article they make it seem like the buyer went after the seller with a gun.
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U read the op? The robbers gave the statements

Always take a friend. Always take a gun. That's my craigslist chekclist

Yes great story wild wild west *lol*
Cheers
*Im Jahre des Herrn 2011*

Jasand said:
" I had an assault rifle in the car" !
I live in the UK, sod the robbery having a rifle in the car is far more serious!
But what did the prick think was going to happen going on the news, criminals can be so dumb.
Great story thanks for sharing.
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Yeah he's definitely a dumb criminal. He could have just left, and we would have only had a phone number to go on, and probably would never have caught him. But because he was dumb enough to get on the news, and make a false statement to the police, they have his information. And as it turned out, HE HAD PRIORS TOO! lol The cops showed me a picture lineup and had me pick him out. Now he'll soon be behind bars where he belongs.

xnifex said:
Always take a friend. Always take a gun. That's my craigslist chekclist
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hahaha thats an important life lesson in the XDA world
i bought my S4G off craigslist, cash in hand, and the system ive worked out for buying/selling work pretty well for tech.
i got him to put my sim in the new fone, turn it on and show its carrier unlocked, if all is well, do the handoff, let him count the ducketts, and we were on each others way in less than 5 min
also it was done in a subway station, so lots of ppl, lots of cameras and a friend standing nearby nonchalantly
but if you have an assault rifle, he is your best friend in that situation

xnifex said:
Always take a friend. Always take a gun. That's my craigslist chekclist
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Really? You're going to have a shootout (if they have a gun as well) with the robbers over a $250 smartphone?

mysterioustko said:
And as it turned out, HE HAD PRIORS TOO! lol The cops showed me a picture lineup and had me pick him out. Now he'll soon be behind bars where he belongs.
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hahaha finally! some justice! even thought you had to do most of the legwork

Dave510 said:
Really? You're going to have a shootout (if they have a gun as well) with the robbers over a $250 smartphone?
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Better to have one and not need it than need one and not have it.

I'm sick of these lying bums in Dekalb County. I feel you bro,glad you got the phone back. I'm on that side of Atlanta too so I know.
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Great story! But one thing... an assault rifle in the car!? Your allowed to have assault rifles!?!? Damn California.... I cant have jack **** here. Pretty funny those robbers didnt have any idea what they were getting into. How did they rob you in the first place? Did they pull a gun or what?

glad it all went well. sometimes robbers **** with the wrong people and get what they deserve.
I dont do craigs list. Too sketchy, rather sell on ebay and not make as much money.

Your worst recent experience at Wal-Mart

/Rant
I generally avoid Wal-Mart like The Plague. I know that I can always expect to see disgruntled employees who generally give two craps less about me than I do about them. I also know that I will find 50 registers and only 6 of them open at any given time. I also know that the other patrons of the store are going to be more embarrassing to me as a member of this species than to themselves.
Knowing all of this in advance, I decided that I could avoid the interactions and have a simple in-and-out experience by purchasing my item online and simply picking it up at the store. I made sure to purchase it at noon today so that when I finished working, I could just swing by, pick up my stuff and leave. Six hours is plenty of time to fill a single item order.
I received a confirmation e-mail saying my item was ready for pickup at four o'clock. I finished up work around five thirty and headed over there. I got to the store and went to customer service at about five forty-five. I stood in line waiting for someone, anyone, to show up to man the CS counter. After waiting for ten more minutes and having two other associates page for help, I began to think that this was not going to be the simple journey I had imagined.
A CS rep finally showed up and "helped" the two people in front of me. She then picked up the phone that had been ringing since before I was in the line and proceeded to have a long conversation with someone who didn't seem to want to make a trip to the store to process a refund. I imagine she wanted Wal-Mart to mail her the cash, but that's just me.
Finally she turned her attention my way and told me that I was in the wrong department. I had to go to the back of the store to pick up my order. Fine. Whatever. I just want my stuff, so I can leave.
I went all the way to the back of the store to the pick up counter, which, of course, was not manned. I wandered around and found someone who kindly paged someone to help me. I sat and waited for ten minutes before getting up and finding someone else. This happened twice more before a manager finally showed up and told me that the pick up counter was closed. I showed him my e-mail confirmation which expressly said I had until ten o'clock that evening to pick up my crap. I also informed him that I had already been waiting 45 minutes for someone to help me.
As it turns out, the girl who was supposed to be at the counter was simply on her break. She finally got around to helping me, and said that the order had not yet been picked. I asked her why they sent me an e-mail saying it was ready. She wasn't sure, but vowed to find out. I sighed at that and asked if I could just go grab it off of the shelf myself. Electronics was thirty feet from where I was standing. She said that if I pulled it off of the shelf myself, I would have to purchase it separately. What the F*** ever.
She consulted with some other girl who showed up to join the discussion. I paced to show my frustration. It was now approaching seven o'clock. They disappeared into the warehouse to find my item as though it were some magical artifact on some RPG quest.
At seven twenty-five in the evening - one hour and forty minutes after I showed up at the store - the girls reemerged and produced the item I ordered. I waited for them to finish logging it out of the system, grabbed it, and left without any further words to them.
Total time from parking to leaving - 1 hour, fifty minutes.
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I bought something on Walmart.com to pick up at the store. They sent me an e-mail saying it was ready. I went to pick it up, but it wasn't ready. I waited while several incompetent employees tried to sort out the mess. It took almost two hours to park, get my stuff, and leave.
Please share your thoughts.
For those unfamiliar:
Walmart is a national chain supermarket. They are famous for having everything you need from birth to death, but no employees competent enough to help you make a purchase.

Once I went to walmart and then I walked back out...the end!
Also Walmart is notorious for having unmanned departments...I hardly ever shop there.
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I've been to Walmart once, in Mississauga, That's in Ontario...Canada...I live in New York. Yep, no wall marts here in the city. And I only went into that walmart to buy a redbull.

I work across the street from one and had my usual split shift, being bored as $hit I took it upon myself to sit infront of the store and record the amount of overweight customers visiting the store. I sat there for an hour and a half drinking malt whisky out of a travel mug counting the scum of the neighbourhood. There were hundreds of ticks on my notepad in that time and I believe the end result was the majority of the patrons were between the ages of 40 and 55 and of them 80% were what I would call overweight. I even made a graph to hang up in my locker to remind myself what I would become if I fell for everyday low prices on high fat foods. Of all the age groups I counted 78% were overweight and out of the hundreds of people I saw there was only one 10/10 and she was walking out of the store with a large amount of toilet paper. :|

itsbeertimenow said:
...hundreds of people I saw there was only one 10/10 and she was walking out of the store with a large amount of toilet paper. :|
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At least you know she's clean.

itsbeertimenow said:
I sat there for an hour and a half drinking malt whisky out of a travel mug counting the scum of the neighbourhood.
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Most of the customers I saw in the store tonight were drunk as well.

gota love wal-mart man we have one in every town in louisiana and let me tell you bob is so right 50 checkouts and only 3-6 workers. each line will have 10 or more ppl in them with some stupid person taking 30 secs to scan each item

fleurdelisxliv said:
gota love wal-mart man we have one in every town in louisiana and let me tell you bob is so right 50 checkouts and only 3-6 workers. each line will have 10 or more ppl in them with some stupid person taking 30 secs to scan each item
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I've learned to pay for everything at the cs desk.

I like Walmart got everything i need in one spot, plus there prices are fair. Poor customer service at times but i figure stuff out on my own anyways. I got my phone new and two weeks early before release date for 99 dollars with upgrade. Tmobile store wanted 299. sooooo until Tmobile site match those prices Walmart well be my go too source.
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I must be super lucky. The WalMart in my town always has manned stations, accepts returns within a month no matter the condition, but employees have no idea about anything in the store except where it is, yet they're nice people HEB is even awesomer, so many free samples. You don't even have to buy anything, and you could've consumed a meal, and I know so many people that work there ^_^ Sadly, besides my small part of town, Walmart, HEB, the movies, the square, the lake beach and some other places are considered the centers of the town and people say it's boring :/ I'm content with all of that o: I think that's alot!
PS, I only order online with Amazon.
MIUInfuse

U should read the rants on craigslist lol
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WalMart in big cities suck. They are okay in small towns where everybody knows your name....because they're always glad you came....

Most walmarts are super ghetto. They should call it that super walmart, na fool its super ghetto now. Ppl be in pajamas and such acting a fool with their 14+ kids.
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Had three small items at checkout, and wanted separate bags, because one was a food product, one was a cleaning product, and one was a toiletry product that leaks sometimes.
"Oh, I'm not allowed to give you 3 separate bags"
If I hadn't paid with a credit card (she could have looked up who I was after I left) I would have called over a manager and made a big stink about her being rude.
Wally World really has gone ghetto big time.

itsbeertimenow said:
I've learned to pay for everything at the cs desk.
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I just learned to never go there again.
bonebeatz1234 said:
I like Walmart got everything i need in one spot, plus there prices are fair. Poor customer service at times but i figure stuff out on my own anyways. I got my phone new and two weeks early before release date for 99 dollars with upgrade. Tmobile store wanted 299. sooooo until Tmobile site match those prices Walmart well be my go too source.
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You could get your phones new on Amazon for $50 with a contract upgrade. Most of them are $0.01 for new plans.

TravisBean said:
Had three small items at checkout, and wanted separate bags, because one was a food product, one was a cleaning product, and one was a toiletry product that leaks sometimes.
"Oh, I'm not allowed to give you 3 separate bags"
If I hadn't paid with a credit card (she could have looked up who I was after I left) I would have called over a manager and made a big stink about her being rude.
Wally World really has gone ghetto big time.
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Wow. That's not only rude, but also unhealthy. You can't combine those items in a bag. My first job was at a Winn-Dixie when I was 15. That was back when you could still get a job at 15, so I guess I'm showing my age a bit here...
We weren't allowed to put different items in the same bag like that. It didn't matter if it took one bag per item. You just can't put ammonia with bread.... idiots....

never experienced any problems.... maybe because ive never been to wal-mart

Not to offend anyone, but I worked at Walmart off and on, usually during the holidays for extra cash. Walmart is all about political correctness and empowering women in management positions, and well, you all see the end result of that business model. A lot of their policies and way of doing things is very counter productive in a business. Ask any employee to best explain how Walmart operates, to sum it up in one word.....clusterfuck.

Making fun of ppl in walmart is fun.
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Cant beat the prices though lol
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[Q] Renting an Exotic Car / Sports Car

Has anyone ever done this before in here? I'm tempted to do one. I can afford it right now but just the thought that it's a waste of cash is bothering me . Part of me also says, you only live once...enjoy it. Dilema is killing me.
The catch, in a little over a year from now I should be able to buy what I want to rent but I am itching for this instant gratification.
So question is...would you do it? Secondly, has anyone done this before? If so, how did it turn out for you.
I'm toying with either a Dodge Viper or 6th generation Corvette...although likely Vette due to cost differences to rent.

Well if you can afford it it can be fun but think about it for the same price what could you do as fun and that it worth the money ?
Whatever your decision may be and if you do it make sure to drive the car to its limit
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I don't see the point unless you're stupidly rich, but if I had the cash to blow I'd do it and think nothing of it.

Nosferatu. said:
Has anyone ever done this before in here? I'm tempted to do one. I can afford it right now but just the thought that it's a waste of cash is bothering me . Part of me also says, you only live once...enjoy it. Dilema is killing me.
The catch, in a little over a year from now I should be able to buy what I want to rent but I am itching for this instant gratification.
So question is...would you do it? Secondly, has anyone done this before? If so, how did it turn out for you.
I'm toying with either a Dodge Viper or 6th generation Corvette...although likely Vette due to cost differences to rent.
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Neither of those cars are exotic. Personally, those cars are not worth renting.

veeman said:
Neither of those cars are exotic. Personally, those cars are not worth renting.
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I am with Veeman on this one. Vipers are fun to drive but they are no where near exotic. If you want to rent something exotic go rent a lambo.
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Take whatever you were going to spend to RENT and BUY some obscene luxury item you've always wanted but didn't want to spend the money on. You'll be happier with it and if you decide you don't want it after all, you can sell it to recoup some of your money.

Done it a couple of times, and wasn't really satisfied. Not at all like buying.

chrism.brunner said:
Done it a couple of times, and wasn't really satisfied. Not at all like buying.
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That's what she said.
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Take both cars for some long 'test drives' at a car garage

Rent an nissan skyline r35 nothing more fun then this ! Honestly id rather spend it on something like sky diving
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$10B/year spent on minimum wage...

For McDonalds fast food workers. Their jobs are the best example I can think of that are so easily replaceable by a machine that does it for next to nothing. Even the initial development, fabrication, and testing of a computerized system which would make the perfect double cheeseburger would cost less than a single day's employment costs. I could probably find a group of people right here in these forums capable of it.
So what gives? Jack In The Box took a little bitty baby step, and people love it. http://consumerist.com/2009/07/23/n...es-final-human-obstacle-in-food-supply-chore/
It's not hard to expand on this idea. Why won't people do it?
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People need jobs? Even the unskilled need to (try) and feed their families.

I understand this is a touchy subject. Increasing socialism appropriately is what needs to happen for those families.
From a company's perspective, what gives? Are they afraid to deviate from the status quo and try something new? Or, more likely IMO, a set of government regulations which make it unfavorable to automate.
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So this replaces the cashiers with a machine that will place your order? That's it?

Ichigo said:
So this replaces the cashiers with a machine that will place your order? That's it?
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That's what I thought lol.
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bleaktrotter said:
I understand this is a touchy subject. Increasing socialism appropriately is what needs to happen for those families.
From a company's perspective, what gives? Are they afraid to deviate from the status quo and try something new? Or, more likely IMO, a set of government regulations which make it unfavorable to automate.
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I think it's more the first one. It's the old saying, if it's not broken, why fix it. Fast food makes more money then Hollywood and video games combined. Why risk that? Also, they want to protect their image. Can you imagine the bad PR if a big chain went completely automated in a short period of time. Also, what will happen if it breaks down? Will all restaurants have to have a full time staff of mechanics on stand by?

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I think it's more the first one. It's the old saying, if it's not broken, why fix it. Fast food makes more money then Hollywood and video games combined. Why risk that? Also, they want to protect their image. Can you imagine the bad PR if a big chain went completely automated in a short period of time. Also, what will happen if it breaks down? Will all restaurants have to have a full time staff of mechanics on stand by?
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Equip each McDonald's with triple redundancy food lines? If one breaks you can schedule a team of regional mechanics to look at it on Wednesday next week.
The PR is an important factor and you mentioned a reputed company's brand if they did it in a short time.. But McDonald's could test it by creating a separate brand and hiring two individuals with the best customer service personalities. They would make money hand over foot because they only paid $40/hr for labor to produce a product with superior quality, less cost to the consumer, and in whatever amount of time it takes for the conveyor belt to make (half) a revolution.
I use McDonald's as an example.. My point is WHY isn't this happening across the board?
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So basically copying sheetz. s.o.bs....
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