i am a guppy. let me say that right off. i am a nine to fiver, ham and egger with a stay at home wife and two sons under 5.
so my prefered unit of choice is a fin, a dollar during football (couple dollars if I feel real good) and once a nickel. I have never bet a dime and believe i would have a coronary if i did. I won the nickel last year when oregon state dismantled notre dame and watched the game alone in a dark room
I had followed state all year and was just waiting for that game.
Sidenote: to soothe my pride at being such a small fish, I have only had two losing seasons in the past ten and can usually afford a very nice gift for my wife or family vacation at the end of football season all the while dreamin of the fed ex checks ray gets ;-).
anyway since i am such a small player I do most of my plays off shore. Most books would rather not bother with me and I like the convenience of the computer rather than tracking down the man to get a play in. Plus I always keep my account pretty small (less than a nickel) for fear of some problem so transfering on the credit card is easy like that.
generally i use intertops as it was recommended by a friend a few years ago and has gone pretty smoothly. until...
last night I'm putting in my plays and decide to check the board. I see ray with a couple outlaw plays and decide to put a little on it. i go to put some money into the account using my credit card (that I've been using for over a year) and it comes back denied. over the course of two hours (which I can't get my plays in of course) i go back and forth with intertops and my credit card co trying to get it to work.
Basically the credit card company computer suddenly didn't like that this charge was coming from a non US destination. 3 times the credit card co told me it had been reset and would work and three times denied (i am thinking of dropping the card i am so pissed) Finally i used some firepay thing to do it (intertops reccommend).
A few questions
1. Anybody had these problems before
2. what is the status of the on-line game bill that has been around the past couple years. At first people said it was definately going to pass but then the public went against it and last i heard it was just about dead. I like being able to use my internet that way and don't wanna lose it so just wanna make sure that I don't need to be writing somebody (politician) about it right now.
3. What is the legality of the whole deal in terms of talking about it with the card co. Everybody asked what is the charge for and my standard reply was it was an internet transaction into an account. The first two people were definately a little wary in talking about the "company" and "transaction" but the third person was like it'll definately work this time you'll be able to bet now.
any input
so my prefered unit of choice is a fin, a dollar during football (couple dollars if I feel real good) and once a nickel. I have never bet a dime and believe i would have a coronary if i did. I won the nickel last year when oregon state dismantled notre dame and watched the game alone in a dark room
I had followed state all year and was just waiting for that game.Sidenote: to soothe my pride at being such a small fish, I have only had two losing seasons in the past ten and can usually afford a very nice gift for my wife or family vacation at the end of football season all the while dreamin of the fed ex checks ray gets ;-).
anyway since i am such a small player I do most of my plays off shore. Most books would rather not bother with me and I like the convenience of the computer rather than tracking down the man to get a play in. Plus I always keep my account pretty small (less than a nickel) for fear of some problem so transfering on the credit card is easy like that.
generally i use intertops as it was recommended by a friend a few years ago and has gone pretty smoothly. until...
last night I'm putting in my plays and decide to check the board. I see ray with a couple outlaw plays and decide to put a little on it. i go to put some money into the account using my credit card (that I've been using for over a year) and it comes back denied. over the course of two hours (which I can't get my plays in of course) i go back and forth with intertops and my credit card co trying to get it to work.
Basically the credit card company computer suddenly didn't like that this charge was coming from a non US destination. 3 times the credit card co told me it had been reset and would work and three times denied (i am thinking of dropping the card i am so pissed) Finally i used some firepay thing to do it (intertops reccommend).
A few questions
1. Anybody had these problems before
2. what is the status of the on-line game bill that has been around the past couple years. At first people said it was definately going to pass but then the public went against it and last i heard it was just about dead. I like being able to use my internet that way and don't wanna lose it so just wanna make sure that I don't need to be writing somebody (politician) about it right now.
3. What is the legality of the whole deal in terms of talking about it with the card co. Everybody asked what is the charge for and my standard reply was it was an internet transaction into an account. The first two people were definately a little wary in talking about the "company" and "transaction" but the third person was like it'll definately work this time you'll be able to bet now.
any input
