Jostein
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: OT: European Banking / Ebay Payment Question
From: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 4:36 PM Subject: Re: OT: European Banking / Ebay Payment Question
Dunno if Mark Cassino still follows this debate after having got the info he needed from his bank, but I hope not. It has become another case of all those used to the procedure saying "hey, what's the deal", and all the others painting out how terrible things can go.
Hi Jostein -
I have indeed been following this thread, since this transaction and my subsequent postings have lead to my complete and utter ruin.
It all started after my first post. My Image Manager stormed into my office and confronted me, saying that my na�ve misunderstandings about banking systems made me look like a complete and utter rube. As she stormed around my office, on the 110th floor of Cassino Towers, I assured her that we could work this work this out. After all, my Uncle Jeb was able to parley his old European inheritance (he was actually Baron Von Jebarkonen) into an acceptable American form by using the 'rube ruse'.
I continued with my posts, but when the PR staff learned that I was pursuing this 'rube plan', they too confronted me to protest that the term 'rube' has its ancient roots in an ethnically derogatory slur. When I told them that was just an urban legend, they summoned the legal team, who demanded that I renegotiate their contract and pay them 4 times their current rate to investigate potential liability for using the term 'rube'.
I gladly fired the legal team, but that lead to the PR staff walking off the job, and without them the entire image management wing decided to jump ship.
And that was my undoing - I had embedded teams of accountants in all of the operational usints that made up my financial empire. Their job was to trade intangibles betwixt and between each other in order to create phony profits that I could use to support my lavish lifestyle and also to grease the palms of the Washington politicians. When the accountants embedded in the legal, PR, and image management wings saw the regular staff walking out, they panicked and packed up as well. That lead to the collapse of my internal trading scheme and when I failed to meet payroll today, everyone - including my wardrobe consultant - jumped ship.
So now I wander the empty halls of Cassino towers, wearing ill matched clothing and turning out the lights, the only ray of sunshine in my miserable existence being the completion of the pending Western Union transaction for the purchase of this lens. (But, without my Internet Commerce and International Packing and Shipping departments, it will be tough to get the lens out the door. But, I will do my best.)
Oh yeah - um, no problems with releasing my bank account numbers, though.
- MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
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www.markcassino.com
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