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crazydoc
Master Baiter
That's probably poverty level in the south SF Bay area.
Zetajazz44
New member
GB Payment Update
Hi All:
Just wanted to give you a quick update on the GB Payment Process.
I have finished all the coding on our side, and have ran several test transactions through the gateway and it seems to be working 100%. I feel confident enough that I wouldn't mind opening up payments again, but I'm still waiting on the SSL to be installed on the server... I wouldn't enter my credit card info on a website that wasn't SSL secure, and I don't expect anyone else to do that either...
As soon as this SSL certificate is installed, we should be good to go...
Thanks,
Randy
Hi All:
Just wanted to give you a quick update on the GB Payment Process.
I have finished all the coding on our side, and have ran several test transactions through the gateway and it seems to be working 100%. I feel confident enough that I wouldn't mind opening up payments again, but I'm still waiting on the SSL to be installed on the server... I wouldn't enter my credit card info on a website that wasn't SSL secure, and I don't expect anyone else to do that either...
As soon as this SSL certificate is installed, we should be good to go...
Thanks,
Randy
JTC111
Active member
I can't help but feel that if you weren't lying around all day playing with your tractor, all of this would've been done already.
(Sorry. I've read too many of those "thank you Randy and Chance" posts and I thought you deserved a little shit, if for no other reason than to balance it out a bit.
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JTC111
Active member
There's a bunch of places like that. I'm in one too. I couldn't make what I'm making in most places but the bright side is my pension will be pretty damn nice and then I'll get off this damned island and live like a king on top of a mountain and complain about all the Eastern Appalachian Mountain Roadside Modern Art (hat tip to David Wilcox) piling up in front of Randy's house.
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Who's $600 is it? It's yours because you paid it in. You're only getting your own money back, not a gift from D.C. So if one has made $87,000 or (or more than twice that for married filing joint) it stands to reason that he too has paid his fair share in.
So instead of looking at it like "you've got enough, you don't need any more" maybe it should be "you paid a bunch in, you should get some of yours back too."
Hmmm...could it be???
Sorry for the hijacking. Back to mics & pres.
mshilarious
Banned
Nah, it's not a rebate, it's a pretty basic transfer payment (that is, government redistribution of wealth). I haven't paid in anything, and I get $2K.
dgatwood
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Pretty close. I think the poverty line is at least $35,000, possibly higher.
The cost of living here is horrible. I did the math once and concluded that adjusted for cost of living, I'd make about half again more money teaching computer science at a small college in Tennessee than I make working in the computer industry.
I own a mobile home and my site rent is just shy of $1000 per month just to rent a patch of land that's approximately 3000 square feet. Where I come from, it would cost approximately one year's rental to buy that size piece of land outright. In most places, I could rent a commercial building in the downtown area for less per square foot.... Oh, and the mobile home cost $210,000---almost as much as my parents' 4500 sq. foot two-story colonial back in Tennessee is worth, and they don't have to rent the land.... $1500/month in mortgage payments + almost $1250 in rent and utilities comes to $33,000 right off the top. Taxes take another $35,000-ish. I spend about $2,000 per year in gasoline. Another $2,000 for meals at work, another $1500 in other food costs, and the remaining $5,500 goes into my 401k to get the maximum match. Well, there's a couple of thousand for employee stock purchase, so I guess all those numbers are off a hair, but I'm basically spending almost 100% of my after-tax, after-401k salary on basic living expenses even at $81,000 a year.
The cheapest home prices here for non-mobile homes start at about $500,000 for 600 square feet (or about $400,000 for 1600 square feet an hour's drive away). Sadly, I'm not exaggerating. I'm looking for land to build on and even an hour away, I'm having a hard time finding any land under $300,000 that isn't a sheer cliff.
There's no Wal-Mart Supercenter for an hour, so the price of food is set by a handful of megachains that abuse their buying power just as much as Wal-Mart, but pocket the difference instead of selling the food at lower prices. A bucket of strawberries picked just thirty miles from here costs roughly half as much at a Wal-Mart in Tennessee as it does here. Most other groceries are anywhere from 50-100% more expensive as well.
Gas prices are on average 40 cents per gallon higher here than in Tennessee, despite this area being about 2,000 miles closer to the refinery. At least I'm not in SF, where I'd be paying on average 40 cents more than that.
Were it not for hoping to buy a house, I'd be okay, but with that, money is kind of tight. Fortunately, I did get a bunch of stock options at work, which is basically the only reason I'm not in the red.... An economic stimulus that doesn't take into account cost of living is a joke.... Not that I'd expect anything better from a Republican---they know they can't win California anyway, so they pretty much don't care about us---but I digress.
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WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
You know, you're right. I tend to have a one track mind re:taxes (as evidenced by the earlier referenced thread
), but this isn't tied directly to taxes--and the gubmint never said otherwise. It's an economic stimulus after all, not a refund. So, philosophically, I'm okay without the $$. But practically, I'd love another pre or a couple more mics...
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chance
Well-known member
Another mass-mail will go out this weekend. If you don't get it. it will be because of your spam blocker. I think you will be able to get it on the console too
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retro1
New member
Chance,
From the initial date you passed on suggestions to correct the ribbon issues, until now, have you heard any word from the manufacturer? Have they shipped out any orders of acm2 and acm3 since then, and found this improved the percentages?
From the initial date you passed on suggestions to correct the ribbon issues, until now, have you heard any word from the manufacturer? Have they shipped out any orders of acm2 and acm3 since then, and found this improved the percentages?
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chance
Well-known member
No. They haven't been made yet
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retro1
New member
It had been suggested that other brands would benefit as well, if the ideas presented actually fixed the problem, so there may have been reports back regarding improvements for them. That's what I was wondering about.
No news it seems.
Btw, are you reasonably confident the production acm900 will have the socket for the tube at this point?
Thanks
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P. Glaser
New member
Zetajazz44
New member
Group Buy Payment Pages - Screen Shots
Here's what the payment pages look like... I've tested them many, many times and they work. Just waiting on the 128 bit SSL certificate to be applied to the server....
Randy
Here's what the payment pages look like... I've tested them many, many times and they work. Just waiting on the 128 bit SSL certificate to be applied to the server....
Randy
vicenzajay
Member
Randy,
I deploy tomorrow (yes, Sunday) - I'd like to pay by virtual check, so can I try that out for you tonight or tomorrow morning and also pay my invoice? I'd really like to have this out of the way before I try to do it from interesting places. I looked at my user console, and my invoice is still greyed out and the fees are still the old total from the now defunct "paypal format".
Thanks again for all the hard work,
Jay
I deploy tomorrow (yes, Sunday) - I'd like to pay by virtual check, so can I try that out for you tonight or tomorrow morning and also pay my invoice? I'd really like to have this out of the way before I try to do it from interesting places. I looked at my user console, and my invoice is still greyed out and the fees are still the old total from the now defunct "paypal format".
Thanks again for all the hard work,
Jay
Zetajazz44
New member
Thanks Jay,
I'd love for you to be able to do this, but here's where the problem is:
The processor won't accept any transaction data from an unsecure webpage... It has to be through SSL, with at least 128 bit encryption... Should the server technicians get this SSL installed tonight or in the morning, we'll be able to do it for you though... Keep our fingers crossed...
Randy
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gareth.h.rees
New member
Hey Randy! Looking great!
Are there any special requirements for international customers?
Cheers
Gareth
Are there any special requirements for international customers?
Cheers
Gareth
Zetajazz44
New member
The only thing that I've ran into so far is that virtual checks aren't accepted from international customers... At least that's what I've found. The spec docs for the gateway say nothing about it, but during my testing, regardless of what country you pass to the gateway for VC, it will fail if you don't supply a social security number and a US based drivers license number...and I'm sure that, typically, international customers don't have either one of those...
Shoot, most of the people who live here now don't have those! BUT, it being Sunday, I don't look for the SSL to get applied today either, so this will give me until tomorrow to find out the details for international VC from the processor...
Randy
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Marcadiablo
Still a newbie
How about customers from Puerto Rico? I want my tube mic!
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