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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: BP4L - NL/RO
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I had my last payments in begin august, i have the bar a little higher since this year. I toke out the cash after i paid my partner, costs for servers and a few coders. I was on the 16th at the ATM taking the last cash out to add this to the house hold cost, paid my wife her graduation costs, she is finally promoted to Doctor. And I was using most of the left over cash to maintain the renovation here at my farm.
On 30 August some payments came from other sponsors, and due to circumstances i was not able to drive to the ATM, is a roughly 60-80 miles from here. Depends on the sandy back roads that sometimes give me a short cut, but it was raining heavy, so i could not leave. Also my wife is HIGH pregnant, Cant leave her alone without me worrying about her well being.
Anyway, on 1 September, i was low on funds, and I was calculating it all, and came to the conclusion that next payment date would be not to early and not to late. I could handle it.
Then I wake up on 2 september reading GFY and see that shit hits the fan.
Knowing all my good sponsors are paying on epass, it was a matter of stopping them all, and install a new form of payment.
The stress hits in on that day when you change account info and realize that this is really the end. I never had 100% hope on better times. The better half in me knew we where fucked in the ass without foreplay.
Then the part came that i had to tell my wife we had a temporary issue with receiving payments, and she freaked out complete. Her being pregnant, i was blaming myself for being so straight up honest.
I told her all would be fine, and that thanks to knowing all my sponsors very good, and having the pleasure of seeing them on the past shows and engaging with them in good business, I told her not to worry, and that everything would work out to all parties benefits.
I knew on that moment I was trying to calm her down, cause she is very stress sensitive in her own way. And with 8 months pregnancy on the clock, i handled her like I would handle a block of Dynamite.
We decided to lower our spending, and participate on a month of no income, racking up the bills and trying to keep smiling for the outside world. We informed no one of our family and we did not wanted to give anyone the idea we had issues.
After a couple of weeks we understood that Epass was affecting more and more people, and this kind of gave us strength, and the energy to not victimize ourselves to much. Part of business is also learning to deal with bad news and stress movements.
On 5 sept i requested a payoneer card, to make sure my online bills could be paid as soon it came, my bank card is invalid next month, so I did not wanted to make more jumps then needed and waited for Payoneer. This was also stress, the location of my farm is very hard to find and to reach. after 21 days, or 22, the mail man was on his bike delivering me the card i needed so bad.
Then on 23 Sep, i confirmed all sponsors to pay me on payoneer. And kuddos to AFF for setting me up so fast, had some small issues with merging all the accounts there, but they emailed payoneer and had replay the next day how to fix it. I wanted to have it done before the new pay periods where a fact.
Then AWE, but that was a little more difficult, changes of payment where done the week after the ticket, and this caused that i would receive my first payments from them on 10 November, according the ticket i got back from them.
In all those times of waiting, reading bad news, feeling frustrated and very nervous, i kind of lost a lot of sleep. Lost a few pounds, this was pretty cool actually, and I learned to deal with more stress then ever had before.
I never flipped out, i made no fights with my wife about money stress, and I was even happier in the past month then I would have expected to be. I think i pass my own test, and came out fine. My wife made me a compliment that I kept my word.
Now it is 6 October, I am waiting on my first payment from Cams.com and then slowly the other sponsors. A few sponsors did not offered alternatives to epass, i tried to ask them why, they said they had no time for it. I could not agree more, knowing they had also funds stuck on epass. So they can wire me.
All in all, this was a black month September. I did not liked it on the other end, but it showed me also how problems can fuck up your system and that you need to anticipate on it. Even with other card services, things can go wrong.
A warned person counts for 2 was a saying in Holland, and I life by it.
My sympathy goes out to all the people who are still in this stress situation, i have no answers for them 123, but I can only hope they are strong and creative enough to survive this, and that they come back stronger.
I am not saying this cause I am in the safe zone, no, far from that. I also lost a few pennies, and I dont expect miracles. I just hope that everyone gets what they worked for, their cash. As someone said her last month " It is not some epass Christmas bonus, it is your salary for your work!! " ...
I hope soon that GFY is done with her epass threads, and those reputation threads, and that life can continue like normal, whatever normal means here. But ya get my point!
Good luck to all of you, and thanks for reading my Epass Story
Regards,
TJ
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