It goes something like this. School begins in four weeks. I've got a phone interview this Wednesday and have just applied for a couple of other potential jobs through a local headhunter. I'm in a bad mood because I allowed my material needs get ahead of my brain to the tune of six-hundred smackers. Damn that's a lot of money to lose to some loser. But it could have been avoided and there seems to be little legal recourse due to the international aspects of the transaction as well as my own idiocy of using Western Union. I'm going to the bank tomorrow to see if there is anything they can do since I did use my Visa for the transaction. Friends in Romania are working the other end of the deal gone bad but there's little hope of catching the crook. I've got letters going out to EBay (where the said 'deal' began), AOL (the perpatrator's e-mail provider and Western Union, the vehicle of transmission. The point of my letter being that EBay should bear at least minimal responsibility for letting an otherwise reputable users' account being pirated, AOL since they should have some info on this guy in order for him to have an AOL account and hoping that WU will have a photo of the transaction. Have reported the occurrence to the proper authorities as well as the Romanian Embassy (shockingly, no reply from them). And as for a new laptop, which I still need, well it can wait a week or so. And I'll just take advantage of my educator status with Apple and get the IPod to store family photos and my ITunes.
On the work side, feel free to visit my seldom updated, often spammed Design blog for recent poster designs completed for a local Chamber Music Concert.
That's all and I need a nap. TTFN.
Posted by robdesign at July 31, 2005 04:54 PM | TrackBackWhat a mess!Hope you get your money back.
Posted by: emily at August 1, 2005 10:40 AMOh man, what a nightmare. I hope it's all straightened out to your benefit RSN. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Posted by: Cindy at August 2, 2005 11:44 AM