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Yeah, I've heard those kinds of stories. This is why it's not good to be an early adopter of anything new. You're essentially paying to be a beta tester.

The ones with LiFePO4 cells do better in winter. They generally have less range, but the gap is rapidly narrowing. If you ever want to go electric where you are wait for EVs with sodium-ion cells. China is making them right now. Only a matter of time before we have them here. You'll probably...

I haven't been behind yet but things aren't looking good for this month.

Why would a scammer be trying to get such small amounts of money? They usually go for six figures.

You've helped so many people. It's nice to see something great like this come your way!

I called him today. He said this is general bank policy when you use the money in one of your investment accounts to cover a rollover. They automatically lock all your investment accounts for 1 year after. He can't do anything about it, even for hardship. The only exception is medical expenses...

You don't understand. The process to get any money out of those accounts takes over a week. In fact when I did the rollover last year it took over 3 weeks to get everything ready. I simply don't have the time right now for this. Of course I understand as admin of this forum it's your job to...

To anyone worried that I can't come up with $2,700 within a few months if both deals fail I offer this. This is the latest project. Five units are ready to send to my friend, and 45 will be done within a week and change. He'll pick those up in person. I'm clearing $500 a piece for these. Once he...

Another thing worth mentioning regarding the second deal I mentioned. I actually needed $24,700 for it, not $14,700. The person I met who helped me with it is offering to loan me $10,000, and yet we only know each other a few weeks. I'm touched by this. I really am. Unfortunately she lacks any...

Because that account, and retirement accounts, are locked until January 2027. I didn't post that little detail until post #10 in this thread. Taking money from any of those accounts was never an option. My liquidity right now is less than $1,000 in my savings account. Is it? I need money now...

I'm talking to a loan shark later today about loaning me the money. He'll loan me the $20,000 but he wants $100,000 back in two months. I'll still be over $150,000 ahead if the two deals work out, so it's not too bad. There is no out for me if either of the deals I mentioned fail to materialize...

I understand. Hopefully someone else here can help then. I explained my reason for lying to my financial advisor. If I told the truth it's entirely possible Chase would dump me as a client and my finances would be a complete wreck. There's no help I can get from my bank anyway. Chase doesn't...

To do this would ruin any trust he has in me. Last November I did a $135,000 rollover to cover part of the fees the fake investment platform wanted to unlock my account. Of course since they were scammers they would never unlock my account no matter how much I gave them but I didn't know this at...

I can provide a little more detail about what I need and why: $2,700 will result in a return of $60,000 for me if successful $14,700 will result in a return of $209,420 for me if successful Right now $2,700 is more important because if that part is successful I have enough money to go through...

BTW, I tried for a loan on Candlepowerforums about two months ago and all I got was ridicule. If nobody wants to help that's fine but please don't ridicule me. I've had enough bullshit over the past 8 or 9 months to last a lifetime.

$2,700 is more important right now than the rest. The $2,700 might get me all the rest of the money I need.

What hardship withdrawal mechanism are you referring to? I looked it up and the only thing I found was that they waived the 10% early withdrawal penalty. That's not even applicable in my case since I'm over 59 and a half. How will that person get repaid in 3 to 4 months? I will have income from...

Because it's silly to pay income taxes on a short-term loan. And I'll get a hard-time from my financial manager. Long-term taking $20K out now could mean $100K less or more I'll be able to withdraw from the account over my lifetime. The additional income on my taxes will also increase my...

I have some bills which need to be paid very soon. I'm looking for a $20,000 loan which can be repaid within about 3 or 4 months at most, but more likely within a few weeks. So far I've been rejected by all the online borrowing places I've tried. Can anyone help, either by loaning me the money...

Thank you. And I plan to help a lot of other people also if this comes to pass.

The ICO I invested in launched on August 31. Since my tokens are staked there is a 90 day vesting period before I can withdraw but I'll continue getting the same interest as before during the vesting period. I had about 3.75 million tokens on the 31st. I'll have about 4.75 million when the...

That has happened to me several times, and like you, it wasn't intentional. I ordered the things on different dates. They just happened to arrive on the same day.

The good thing is solar panels are lower priced than they've ever been. Balcony solar is becoming a thing.

This sounds awful. Weeks without electricity in the summer is the closest thing to hell on Earth I can think of. I hope power gets restored there as quickly as possible.

I used to go to either Mets or Yankees games at least a few times a summer with my late father. He was a die-hard Yankees fan. He also may have come close to having a professional baseball career himself. He used to play in some kind of baseball club when he was in his 20s. Occasionally scouts...

My too. I'm about 20/200 uncorrected but that's adequate for almost everything, including riding my bike. I can see what I need to see. I can't read street signs until I'm much closer but I have no need to. I know the streets I ride on like the back of my hand. For the electronics work I do...

So far I've managed to keep the power on. Thank you for the offer of help. If I need it in the future I'll let you know.

Do you mean emotionally or financially? Emotionally I'm getting better a little at a time. Financially I'm still a wreck. My new business project is still in the R&D phase. I won't see real money from it for weeks. I did manage to keep the lights on so far. I'm doing some market timing now...

Me neither. They'll keep McConnell's rotting corpse connected to life support machines to avoid a special election.

Seriously???? This is legalized scamming.

Steam inflicted the train simulator world as well: https://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/Train_Simulator_Classic/ That's why I use Open Rails. Maybe not as much eye candy but much better physics. When I drive a train I want it to feel like driving a train, not something else. This new sim...

That's actually good to know I can put 7 on newer hardware once I'm more flush and can afford an upgrade. Regarding RAM and SSD prices, from my reading sadly it looks like this situation will continue for a very long time. In retrospect the prices I thought were highway robbery not long ago...

So you think it's a driver problem and not something else? At this point it's more of an occasional nuisance than something I can't live with. It's just strange how everything will be working fine and then suddenly it does, roughly after the system is up about 20 something days. So far my...

Yeah, I'm at the latest and last version. And yes, when the problem crops up I just reboot. I was trying to see if maybe someone else encountered this before and had an answer.

This is a problem I've had for probably a few years now but I've never asked about it. I have my two monitors set to turn off after 5 minutes. This works fine until my computer is on 20 something days continuously. After that the displays never go off. After 5 minutes they just randomly flash on...

Merc, you have my sympathies. I've had way too many of those kinds of weeks lately myself. My brother is a car expert. Maybe if I give him the specs of the tires he can locate a source local to you. At least you didn't get hurt. A blowout at highway speeds is serious business.

They recovered over $10 million so far. Torture is also how they pay for their crimes. I hope Cambodia has capital punishment for crimes like this.

So this is what I get for giving up over ten years of my life to care for my mother so she didn't end up in one of those horrible nursing homes? Being homeless? We really need caretaker laws to ensure that time spent caring for family members is taken into account when dividing estates...

Counseling is a waste of money. If I had money to spare I would be getting dental work. I'm already in considerable pain. This isn't a gamble. You're assuming every ICO is a rug pull. It's launching when they raise $15 million, which will happen in a matter of weeks. That's definite. What the...

I'll just hope the ICO bails me out then. I'll get about $2,500 USDT rewards each month when it launches, more if the price goes up. That's enough to live on.

They got hit with a bunch of withdrawals at the same time. Here's what I bought: https://cryptonews.com/price-predictions/blockchainfx-price-prediction/ I know a prediction is only speculation but there's a lot of consensus on the token reaching $1 or more this year. I'll also continue to get...

I'm dubious this is a rug pull. There's a working cryptocurrency exchange behind it. This is similar to the IPO of the Binance coin. Anyone who got into that IPO did very well. The coin sold for about 10 cents in the IPO. Now it's going for about $600. It peaked at a bit over $1,000. Do the...

I'm just going to ask if the members here can start a GoFundMe on behalf of me. Maybe you all have better knowledge of how to promote it so it actually gets donations. I'll give my bank account number for them to send the funds to. This is how desperate I am right now. You know the background...

Here's the problem. I have assets but they're not liquid. My money in my retirement accounts is currently frozen until next January. It's a long story but the short version is I took out a rollover to get the scam site to release my account. Of course they didn't but Chase had a hissy fit that I...

As everyone here may know last year I was scammed out of $260,000. This and the loss of most of my business income due to the tariffs, and someone pirating our device, has caused me to finally run out of liquid funds. Within a few days my electricity, phone, and Internet are going to be turned...

As an aside I was going to invest in a mutual fund which holds the stocks of companies providing electricity generation for AI data centers. The returns over the last two years were something like 50% annually. Now I think I'll pass. Only a matter of time before this bubble pops. And it IS going...

No it doesn't. I think the tech companies thought they could make a profit off AI because they would have legions of customers more than willing to pay them enough to make a profit, even given the exorbitant costs you mentioned. It turns out for most people AI is a solution in search of a...

I haven't in a while but holy shit! It looks like SSD prices jumped by a factor of 3 or 4 compared to what I remember. We were down to about $40 per TB on sale items. Now forget it. $200+ for 1 TB is the new normal. What's the reason? AI again? Bad enough it's making our electric prices spike...