good lord what a depressing thread

It's making me feel better by the minute! :winkwink:

On a serious note, I am sorry for all the pain you guys have gone through. All this shit sucks, but whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

DH

what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!!!
:winkwink:

Word up homie!

DH

k today has got to be the worst days for me as well

server fucekd up and went down, needed to change to a host fast, i locate one , then my wallet goes missing unable to pay for it with my cc as i dont even know the number. Still haven't been able to find my wallet, got the cc# from online banking , when all data has been transfered , i go to transfer the DNS

then fucking GOdaddy deceidse its system upgrade time.. so i'm like ok it says 45mins , its been 12 hours now , and i can't cahnge any of my dns... and then when i do change it takes another 48 hours on top of that ...

i know thats not half as bad as the shit here.. but today has got to be the worst day for the year, the chain of bad events were related to each other , that is wut makies it so bad ...

Worse day of my life...

I was 7 years old...and I was sitting at home watching the UH vs. BYU game in 1989. (huge rivals) anyway..my mom called and told us kids that when dad got home to tell him to go to the airport. Well, its a small little island, and we thought it was just one more thing...you know...didn't think anything of it. So me, my sis and bro are sitting there watching tv...my mom calls again, my dad had gotten home by then, but we didn't deliever the msg.
She yelled at us and we told him and he left.
They came back and told us the plane that our older brother was on, was missing. We looked at each other...we didn't know what to do. They said they had to go back and they left...
We kneeled down and prayed...each one of us prayed...none of us got through the prayer...we were crying to hard.

A family friend came and picked us up and we went down to the airport. It was 7pm , the plane was suppose to arrive at 4pm.

And I remember a sence that will forever stay in my mind.

A girl from high school was down there, waiting. The news was delievered that the plane had gone into the side of a mountain, all were dead without a doubt.

She dropped to the ground and started screaming...pounding the asphalt with her fists. I will never forget that...

that was my worst day, I lost my best friend at age 7 he was 14.

wow rdun404 those are tragedies.

Wow that must have been a heartbreaker! Jesus!

DH

It was quite tragic....there were about 20 ppl on board? 13 teenagers...from 14-18 all on the girls and boys volleyball team...

The thing I think that stands out most...
would be at the funeral...my dad just kicked the coffin throughout the whole thing...no breaks, never missed a beat...just methodically kicked it...i never cried about it until i was 14.

worst days make you stronger...and realize life is awesome :)

My worse day? I would have to say when I was 12 years old and was informed that my mother and father had been killed in a car wreck.

:(

The worse day of my life was when Mark closed the side door of his packed minivan .... gave me a man hug, and drove out of my life .......................

:(

Yes it was a sad day for me as well my friend:winkwink:

Whenever I get lonely I always think of that hairy, pudgy man I left back in Mississauga. Then I put on that Cartman Remix of Stix singing "I'm Sailing Away". LOL!!!

DH

Hehehehe

speaking of which ... that pudgy, hairy guy is now bald (still got the flavor saver though) ... trying to grow it out ZZ Top style ... and I have lost almost 20 pounds since September bro ...

I have to either buy all new pants, or buy some new belts (fukkin good belts cost as much as just buying new fuggn pants !!) :(

I feel GREAT though!! :thumbsup ... you don't realise how much work it is carrying around those extra pounds until after you don't have to ... now if I can lose another 30, I will be quite content ...

When ya coming back to visit your mom Bro ???
Are you gonna be here over the holidays at all ??

We got a few (dozen) beers, and a feast of wings with our names on them at Natty's ... just tell me when ...

(I miss the man hugs, and you spooning me ...):Graucho

Mine was when I received a tax reassesment for $2.4 millions - not long ago. And know what? They want to tax me on money I never got. (bounced checks from some fuckers who ripped me off in 1999).

In a nutshell :

It was in my early stage in 1999, a guy offered me thru a chat room a super commision of $350 per sale. He was pretending to be from a very knowed sponsor at the time and he wanted me to enter in their "special mega super INVITE only program". So I said yes!

So I start sending my traffic to his sites (no URL, only IP addresses sites)... I was a bit skeptikal at first, I wasn't sure about all this. But this guy was pretending he was working for the sponsor I was mainly promoting and paid me about $30k so far.

I was making with this invite only program about 10 times the number of sales I was previously making - so I was completly thrilled! Plus, he was paying me about $350 per sale instead of $30.

He justified this mega-commsion because they were doing cross sales on the join page - they were offering like 15 other sites for free, but if the surfer didn't cancel each single site - he was then rebilled for each single site at the monthly price.

I was very young and naive, I was barely speaking english so I told myself : "Why not! I've been receiving checks from that company before!"

So I was making a shit load of money with this invite only program. I then received some checks, went to the bank as usual and cashed them. Not long after, they were bouncing in my account.

He was inventing excuses and sending me new checks and they bounced - he sent me new checks and they bounced... etc for about 5 months.

But in fact, this guy wasn't working for that sponsor and there was no mega-commision invite only program like I thought it was.

In fact, this guy was just someone pretending this - in order to get my traffic as long as he could and have me dream of those mega numbers as long as he could.

Now, RevQuebec and RevCanada want me to PAY TAX ON THOSE FUCKING CHECKS THAT BOUNCED IN MY ACCOUNT!

They are claiming that I should try to get this money back, from the person who defraud me.

All I have is a fucking nickname! The bank where I was doing business tried to investigate this without success.

I had no URL's, I was communicating with him thru a internal message board on a foreign IP address.

I don't have these IP addresses anymore, all I remember is that they were from some middle east or east european countries like Latvia, Russia or something like that.

I was very naive, I admit. I was very stupid to believe in all this for that long. But I was 17yo (i know) and I wasn't speaking english.

The governement wants me to pay tax on this money who never existed and never got.

The past 7 months have been the worst days of my life - I am living a stress that you can't imagine. I just want this nightmare to stop and start living again.

whoa.

hehe and you thought Visa was bad???

DH

about 1 1/2 weeks ago wrecked my car with my mom in it, hit a suv which did a dominoe effect and went into 2 other suv's. did 7.6k worth of damage to my car but my mom was with me and she had a bruise on her chest from the air bag ( i dunno how that is ) and she has had a little bit of back and neck pain. im only 18 so the only other bad thing thats happened to me is when my great grandpa died when i was 12.

Oh and did I mention that I've been paying my accounting firm about $20k to defend myself. RevCanada/Quebec ignores all jurisprudence and law text we presented to them.

All the people I talked to (lawyers, accountans, people in the industry) are like "You don't have to pay tax on this!" And it's pretty logical... why should I pay tax on money I never got!?!

Bottom line, this whole shit situation costed me about $20k so far and we are going to appeal next month. Looks like I will spend another $20k... :helpme

When you filed your taxes did you report the lost income due to bounced checks. In the USA this would have had to be reported and could not have been written off as a loss without having made every legitimate effort to collect on the checks. At least that is my understanding of our tax laws.

Well this is the same thing here in Canada. I have to prove that I've tried to collect the money back. But the thing is that I had nothing to point finger to someone.

I had no names, no address, no phone numbers, no emails, no screenshots - nothing.

Our law state that I have to do one of the following in order to writte those check off my books;

- I have unsucsesfully tried to collect the money

- The company or the individual who owe the money is bankrupt or the company is closed.

- If I didn't try all legitimate efforts to collect the money; if those efforts would have been tried, they would have been unsucsessfull.

- I can show to RevQuebec/Canada that it was very clear that It was impossible for me to get this money back.

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So what we did is we explained them that we had nothing - it was then impossible to collect this money.

But still, all they are saying is that is very weird that I didn't have a signed contract with this individual or company. They don't understand how we can do business virtually with these type of numbers involved without a signed document.

But bottom line, we are talking about a fraud that I was victim from an unknowed person or entity - it's pretty obvious that I shouldn't have to pay tax on that. This will put me directly to bankrupcy. How stupid is that anyway...

The other worst day of my life :

Is when I learned that I have to charge GST on my paysites (7% tax) from our accounting firm. At least, they were kind enough to warn us before we start.

The other thing is that we also have to charge GST on the money we receive from affiliate program. Like ARS - I would have to charge them a 7% tax on the commision they are sending me. Under Canadian tax law it's considered as a "service" and we should charge GST on those services - even if they are provided to a foreing entity.

So to all Canadians here : You have to charge GST to your sponsors on your affiliate income. haha!

I don't know how ARS will react if I have to send them an invoice for about $200k