Several PPC cards on Amibench

[MAD]

Hoya!

Everyone is going ahh ohh with Europe but I think what Europe needs is an Organism helping people who have been ripped off, no matter the country.
For now, it seems WAY too easy to rip someone off from another country and get away with it...

I cannot do anything to help you but I am with you in thought. ;-)

Be funky

M A D

[Crusher]

We call it Interpol. That´s why you need to get in touch with all your local police forces and tell them everything and tell them that everyone else in the other countries is doing the same thing. Then they have to contact Interpol.

Just my 2cents.  :-)

[layer]

Hallo,
i´m very angry about Bernd Binder. I´m was tipping the letters B E R N D   B I N D E R  in "google.de" There are your forum and i find you.
For us it´s to late - but maybe we can warn some new clients from binder

[preacher]

@all concerned

I recieved a recommended letter today and indeed, there was a reciept from the 'Deutche Post AG, 72461 Albstadt'
(The blury stamp on the letter says Albstadt also).

The date says '19.04.04 16:58'. 'CSPPC 604/233 MHz', my initials and my country is written by hand with an ink pen.
The reciept seems to be genuine. There's URL at the bottom that says's 'www.deutschepost.de/briefstatus'. Of course I went right ahead to search for my package, but all I could find out was that the parcel had been delivered to some central for international distribution at 20.04.04.

Here is the answer from the german postal service site:
'Die Sendung wurde am 20.4.2004 an das Internationale Briefzentrum zur Weiterbeförderung ins Ausland übergeben.'

Translate, anyone??

There is also an international service phone number, wich I most definitely will call tomorrow. Of course you will be the first to know the result, as I post any updates here.

[punkpie]

That's fantastic news. At least someone has recieved something.

@preacher

Where in the world are you?

I run the german through the babelfish translator.

"The transmission was handed over to 20.4.2004 to the international letter center for reforwarding abroad"

So.  It seems your package is actually stuck at some sort of central handling place.  Hopefully that's where ours are.

There's still some hope yet then...

[preacher]

@punkpie

I live in Sweden.
I also ran the word 'übergeben' in an online german-swedish translator and got the word 'puke' or 'throw up' :lol:

@all concerned

There is still something fishy about it. Since the letter is recommended, it has a trackingnumber. I used that number on the german postal site, but I had to guess the date it was sent because the stamp on the letter is too blury and the site requires a date to be able to search. Now, on 20.04.2004 I finally got a match. Assuming they don't use the same trackingnumber for several letters/parcels at different dates, I got what I wanted.
(note: this is still an assumption)

The wierd thing is that Tibor sent me an email on April 22, where he asked me again for my address. Quote:
'Need again your address to check it, and I send you than the bill and the id number of the parcel.'

Why would he ask me for my address if he already sent the letter? Or is this just paranoid thinking... (?) :-o
Maybe he sent me a brick...

[vpcs]

And the Saga continues

[Jose]

Wow good news, finally. Well at least apparently...
I had some stuff retained in customs before for no apparent reason and with some pressure they got it processed.
The strange thing is that since this all goes to different countries it's strange that all got stuck at the same time.
But if it's some "central for international distribution" that would be an explanation, cause all stuff would go throught that place.

[punkpie]

@Jose

The problem is if they are in customs they could stillbe stuck there for quite a while.

@preacher

If Bernd is telling the truth then he had a lot to sell.  Maybe it's just hard keeping track of all the orders he had so he to ask everyone again.  I got an similar email from him around that time.

[Jose]

@punpkie
Yeah, but hey, if that's the case, it's still great news that the cards exist :-o  Unless he sent us a brick like preacher said :-D

[JaXanim]

Mmmm...it does sound promising doesn't it.

@preacher

I guess your 'recommended' letter is actually the 'registered' letter Binder referred to. If so, it will have a unique reference number/bar code which allows you (theoretically) to track it. I say theoretically, because once the article gets into 'the system' it could stay in one place for a long time. So there'd be no updates from the tracking engine.

The letter I sent to Albstadt Police is tracked to the point where it was 'handed over to the services abroad for delivery'. That has been the result for the past five days or so.

Maybe the Police letter and our cards/receipts are all stuck in this 'Redistribution Center'? Whatever is going on, your letter puts the German system in a very bad light. Even worse than others have said about it. It's unbelievable!

I guess we will all be keenly awaiting our mail delivery over the next few days - or maybe weeks!

Cheers,

JaX

[Jose]

And to think that I've just finished typing a request for information on the guy to Paypal... 8-) Not that it still can't go all wrong though.

[JaXanim]

If it turns out OK, I won't mind having egg on my face one bit! I'll have a PPC card to compensate!

If it really is the scam we all think it is, we've done the right thing.

AND, if this thread gets any longer, there'll be the Film Rights to consider! Hollywood blockbusters have been made with less!

Cheers,

JaX

[preacher]

Mr. Binder has, maybe without his own knowledge, created the longest thread in Amiga.Org history  :-P

[punkpie]

@all concerned

If anyone else gets one of these registered lettes can you let us know.  Lets home there are actually more of these letters somewhere around.  :-)

[Jose]

@Jax
I think we done the right thing. Given the time that has passed, and without almost any communication from the seller, it was the only sane thing to do.