February 3, 2015
If you have seen this product being marketed online and you plan to buy it … Don’t! I have been a supporter of Kickstarter projects for a number of times and his project is the first one that I had been scammed. Well, officially that is. I am not sure with the other projects that […]
January 26, 2015
FedEx, DHL, LBC, whatever. Hell, when it reaches the Philippines, the recipient is forced to pay a whopping amount of taxes even if the item involved is worth only $10.
WTF!!!
Yep. When I ordered something from Kickstarter, there was an option if shipment will be through government postal service or FedEx.
International shipping to the Philippines is pathetic. Once it reaches the country, it takes foreEEEEEver to reach its intended recipient.
Thinking that the item was small, I decided to have it ship through FedEx. Hell, waiting for a few days beats waiting for 3 months or more.
When I got the package, I was shocked to find out I had to pay more than $50 in taxes.
WTF!!! (again)
If I knew about this first hand I would never have chosen the FedEx option. Even my sender was surprised he thought the guy at FedEx was trying to scam me since in the U.S. anything less than $50 is not taxed.
Well, welcome to the Philippines. Where everything is taxed and majority of them go to corrupt people. Literally.
So hell, I had no choice. But I will never, ever have anything shipped through those a-hole commercial couriers.
Shipping through the government’s mailing service will still tax me but the difference is staggering. Lesson learned for me.
Oh, and if you think that documents are exempted from taxes, think again. My cousin told me even she got taxed even for a few documents sent through FedEx.
January 6, 2015
Yes. Asia United Bank. Your system is stupid! I log into the website only to find a surprising message that it had been deactivated due to inactivity in at least 6 months.
WTF?!?!?!?! If I wanted it reactivated, I would have to waste many more days just to get a response from the bank.
If this would be easy as clicking a few questions from a re-activatuon web form, no problem. But this ain’t so, so their system is pretty stupid!
Why can’t the system send out an email that my account can be deactivated soon due to inactivity and I need to log in in order to avoid that scenario?!?!
Why?!?!?
Just one stupid, lazy and incomplete system!
