thanks for updating the staff list...........

coan.net: I guessed the same, glad i am not having a funny moment

Thought it may be something to do with these meteors

MadMonkey: Probable has something to do with the archiving - archived the data and the tournament tables pointed to the wrong place now.

Example, look at this Madmonkeys 'Gammon' Stakes (6)

The final has just this second started, yet acording to the results a game has already finished, yet click on it and it has not even started

The section results are just loopy.

Is anyone else seeing odd things with Tournamet results tables ?
I was just looking at one, which show a 2 section Tournament.
Section 1 has finished, and the winner coloured yellow YET there are no results in the boxes.
Section 2 is still running, yet every result box has a space for 2 results (which is wrong as it is only a one game match), but the first result shows as unfnished and the second as a draw in EVERY game.
I have tried a couple of Tournaments and go the same basic problem.

I thought it may have been Firefox having a funny moment, so have tried IE and it is the same

Bernice: Same here. I use it to renew my membership(s) in sites I play in.

Jason: Yes I remember doing that a few years ago. So I don't understand why this time they paid Fencer by e-cheque.

Bernice: Yeeeessss! Purple would be a GREAT global mod. I believe he will be "the choosen one". Brainking criterias are strange enougth for that... lololol

would there be any chance of updating the "Global Moderators" list as I believe that a couple have resigned for one reason or another. It makes it easier when you want to talk to one and theyactually are a Global Moderator.....thanks

crosseyed: to activate your paypal account to use your credit card , it takes a few days ........they make a charge to your credit card for a few pence , you use the code that is then given to verify things , at least that is how it used to work when i joined

crosseyed: Im so pleased you got what you wanted :)

Ive never had trouble with Paypal, but then I only use it once or twice a year LOL

Jason: I went to Paypal and re-added it. I hope it works now.

Jason:i've been using paypal for years, it's very easy and it is free, it's very reliable, it goes thru my credit card, and it seems like my payments go thru in no more then 24 hrs.

crosseyed: just to add if you want to do it that way (credit/debit card ect) through paypal you can set it up if you logon to paypal and look for the link to set it up ,

crosseyed: no fee for using it , i bought a membership a few weeks ago and it is instantly done , and the persons membership was updated within a minute , i have it set to use my credit card for payment ,so paypal pays instantly and then charges my credit card

Dolittle: Are you charged a fee for that? And how do I go about arranging that? PayPal have made it very difficult to contact them. You have to go through a silly way and only certain questions gets you through to them.

Dolittle: mine too - when i paid for the red code - the payment was sent and i got the notification from BK to my message box - before i even came back to the site from PayPal...

crosseyed: My Pay Pal account is set up on my debit card so the payment goes to Fencer right away. It's a good way to have it without any delays.

Jim Dandy: I wish I could help a few more people, but I am on low income myself so have to limit it.

Eriisa: I am not sure but it must be something like that. The rules have change and they have moved their head office.

Bernice: Czech Rep is now part of the EU, which has adopted the VAT - so yes, they do that that now.

Little more info about VAT - since for myself in the US, don't know much about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax

crosseyed: That's a classy gesture,I only found out about the sponsorship program a few weeks ago.

crosseyed: I was just curious since I deal with Paypal at lot as an eBay seller. Did your payment go as an e-check?

Bernice: I don't want to keep on about this since Fencer has been good enough and changed his mind. Unfortuately for me the money did not get into Fencers account still 01/01/08 09.43.00. So I did technically miss the deadline. But since I had been in touch with Fencer several time before the deadline I was dissappointed that he did not give me the bonus as he was aware that the payment was pending.
Thank you for your input. And I am so grateful that Fencer changed his mind. I intend to give the bonus to someone who cannot afford membership and that was why I was so upset.

Fencer: Thank you Fencer for changing your mind and making an exception. I actually took advantage of the deal on the 18th December which you would see in my PayPal account. Unfortuately PayPal has changed it rules and I was not aware that the transaction is not completed before 7 to 9 days. In the past the money was taken immediately. I now know that I either have to put money into my PayPal account or allow for the time period. It was just bad luck for me that that there were 2 weekends and the Christmas holiday that held things up.
Once again thank you.

Bernice: It's a silly thing for those who still use slow payment methods. The majority of orders is paid by online services (PayPal, MoneyBookers) which, of course, work continuously and instantly, no matter whether there is a holiday or not.

Fencer: under your own words it is a silly thing to do (not a wise decision), so why have it (the promotion)going over this holiday period.

Thank god you have made an exception, shows there is a heart in there somewhere :)

Do you have to make a return to YOUR Govt once a month or whereever to return to them the VAT collected from customers of yours?

I know that VAT has been in the UK, NZ, and Aust for many years now (maybe called something different) but didnt realize that the Czech Rep. also have that system.

Can someone advise me on this....

Over here, if someone from another country uses our services there isnt any Vat, GST or whatever paid.....for instance, I contract to a Solicitor and if we do work for a client in the UK he isnt required to pay our GST....I would have thought that would have been practically universal... The USA has a similar situation I think, but I do stand to be corrected/.

coan.net: Taxes, man, taxes! The European Union is uncompromising about that. Starting 1st February, I will have to add a VAT to all membership fees and for everyone. It won't be too much (15 or 19%) but since some people are very sensitive to any kind of a raise, they had a good chance to overcome it with a help of the bonus codes.

Dolittle: The rules are very specific about that and say that it's the date of receiving the money which counts, not the date of sending. A month is a very long period for everyone to make it before the deadline and if someone makes a bank transfer on 21st December, it is not a wise decision because banks are usually slow by the end of the year.
I have decided to make an exception and give crosseyed the bonus but I would like to point out that nothing like that will be done again in the future. The rules should be the same to everyone.

Bernice: The BrainKing Blog is available to everyone ( http://brainking.info/ ), where it is mentioned in the most recent article that "...we plan to make important changes to our policy of membership fees..."

Even though he did not say raise prices, if I were to guess - that is how I take it - but again, that is just my guess. Guess we will find out more sometime in the next month.

Jamie (Proud2bAmerican) is saying that you are going to raise the prices.......is this correct, and how do we all become privvy to your confidances?

Dolittle: yes exactly....scan/copy her statement and send to Fencer....surely he would have the decency to honor it.....but then.....as I said,money does strange things to people

Bernice: think it was debited out of her account on the 21st....that was 10 days before the deadline so she should get the 100% on the membership.

crosseyed: ask Fencer for your money back......and I would have thought that if you have proof that it came out of your account before midnight on the 31st he would honor the deal, and as you have said you contacted him about it, but.......money makes people do strange things

I thought I was lucky to get the red dot colour code which was 100% bonus. So I took advantage of the offer on 18th December. When it did not show up in my profile the next day I contacted Fencer. I also contacted him when I saw that the money had been taken out of my account on the 21st December. He told me that the money was not his account yet.
Can you believe this, it was paid into his account today and I missed out on the 100% red dot code deal.
I think he should honour the deal since he knew about it before the deadline.
Also was not my fault that the christmas holiday and two weekends held things up. So be warned that PayPal takes too long to complete transactions. It states in Paypal that it could take 7 to 9 days to complete a transaction. You need to allow 2/3 weeks for payments it to be completed. PayPal sucks.

Ewe: It looks like snow on his head to me and on the castle.

Jim Dandy: I didnt see the dragon with the santa hat on & Im in castle mode

Fencer, finished my Interview, do you or Paulo have to release it ??

OH, and no editing it lol

redfrog: You've gotta love the Santa hat our dragon is wearing,a very nice touch

redfrog:i'm hooked up exactly the same way, and i also don't have the problems that are stated here.

Andersp: I use Qwest (local phone company) DSL through the wireless on my laptop - i have heard others using wireless connections dont seem to have the issues that are so common here... im no where near the technical genius required to determine how that could impact anything - but maybe it does...

TarantinoFan:

Vikings: Now I'm scared! Is he going to unleash h*ll on this site? Or am I just freaking out because my son got Gremlins 1 and 2 for christmas and has been watching them over and over for the past couple of days? Hehehehe.

TarantinoFan: I believe they are, but thats just what I read into his post

Vikings: So are the pictures of the little devils supposed to be some clue? I could say a few things about where those blighters live and this site in the same sentence but I would only get in trouble!

you guys should read a little closer to understand what Fencer is going to launch

Bernice:

I found this picture of me only I hope when he installed me in the tower he gave me a instead of the club! Hehehe

TarantinoFan: I thought IT was his clone

TarantinoFan: of course she does LOL.......she wouldnt look like me or she TOO would be breathing fire HAHAHAHAHA

Bernice: Dang does that mean I have to log out and wait for that silly beast to stretch my page again and blow a few fireballs to see if there is really is a princess. I wonder if she looks just like me???? LOL