Please clarify, who and when sent me (if sent) a firewire<>IDE box. I still get nothing.

P.S. I post it in a new thread for everyone to notice this message.

[ Edited by Sonic on 2006/9/8 10:55 ]

it was me, i haven't sent ti yet because of work and schedule issues. The box is ready and will be sent on monday, i'll send you a notification for tracking the parcel if possible.

If this package is sent on Monday, and the $150 donated by pegasos-sigi2 also arrives as it should in the beginning of the week, maybe it's realistic to expect that we will know the status of all test hardware about one week from that.

Then there is always the problem of finding Targhan to get the bounty posted, but one problem at a time..

[ Edited by merko on 2006/9/8 23:14 ]

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Of course it is. Unfortunately i haven't checked my PCI card yet, i was severely busy since next sunday is my wife's birthday and we're preparing to it. I am goind to find some time at the end of this week.
I'll report as soon as money arrive. I've just checked my account state, not yet. I expect them to be here at the end of this week also (~6 days from transfer start not counting saturday and sunday).

Remember that it can take even a month to deliver it. And pack it *REALLY* well and attach a "FRAGILE!!!!" sticker to it. I'd like it not to repeat my camera's fate.

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it's strictly forbidden to write "fragile" on a parcel at the french post. Last time i did that they told me to remove it ..."we don't hande "fragile" stuff it's at your own risk".
Never had a problem though.

Parcel will leave this afternoon.

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Heh, at least they honestly warn you...

I'd like to tell that i'm here but everything is frozen.
I get neither money for repair nor additional hardware. So everything is still on hold...

Please see this: http://pegasossoft.de/DSC00009.JPG
http://pegasossoft.de/DSC00010.JPG
This shows the international banktransfer-paper, that was
used to transfer the 150$ to you.
It was written on 6 september 06. The madam behind the
desk sayed me, that the transfer need 5-6 days.
But this was the fast way to send. If they use the slow way,
it need more than 2-3 weeks.





[ Edited by pegasos-sigi2 on 2006/9/18 16:44 ]

Well, if you look at the top of the second image, it lists a few countries.. but not Russia. So I guess they will be confused about a country they have never heard about before and it will take a few extra days. Well of course it takes a few microseconds to actually make the transfer, but every day they delay it, is a day they get free interest profit on the sum.

[ Edited by merko on 2006/9/18 19:06 ]

Heh... Russia is so deprecated...

SoundSquare: Did you get the package sent, or it's still lying around?

I still haven't got anything. Neither payment nor hardware.

Well, sigi said the money transfer could take up to 3 weeks if using the "slow" method. Since Russia wasn't included on the sheet I find reason to assume that it would use the slow method indeed. Now it's been 3 weeks so I guess if nothing happens in the next week it's time to make a complaint.

But for the package, we still didn't get a note that it has actually been sent, so maybe it wasn't for some reason. I don't think it should take more than 2 weeks for a package, no way.

The package can travel for 1 month, according to previous experience.

It's true.. yesterday I received my postal voting forms... 2 weeks after the elections and 5 weeks after it was sent. But that may be because the guy sending it forgot to put a stamp on it.

Anyway, if you didn't get a tracking number from SoundSquare yet as he said he'd send you, I guess it has not been sent yet.

It's been well over a month.. I guess the package was not sent for some reason, but the money was clearly sent and I think it's getting time to make some complaint there.

Merko

I agree. This does not look like a good sign. This thread looks sketchy. Where is Sonic now?

magnetic

Oh please let's not start throwing suspicions around.

I know for a fact some banks have had serious trouble with some Russian counterparts, with transfers mysteriously disappearing etc. I think things have gotten better, maybe it is just delayed, but still.. it is better to raise the alarm before the thing gets cold.

I am here. Just was solving some family problems...
A part of them is workspace cleanup (removing tons of crappy hardware from my table and different boxes).
(for those who like to ask questions: yes, my wife and i are tired from tons of trash in out flat, we were making a general cleanup this month (in addition i had to stay at work until 21:00). I don't have enough time to devote to so many computer systems. I don't have appropriate time to port AROS to mac68k. I don't have appropriate time to write S3 chip driver for AROS. I need a PC and i need a portable machine (laptop). So i decided that desktop PC + Mac laptop => a bit better PC laptop is a good deal. It's done.
As a part of this process i've exchanged my PowerBook-150 for IBM ThinkPad 365x laptop. My Pentium-90 desktop PC will also go away as soon as i finish system migration and remove large 20 GB HDD from it.
As a side effect this means i'll have no second firewire peer. So IP-over-firewire is out of scope at least until PCMCIA HW acquisition by some way.
2 merko: so if you want to write a bounty spec, do it now. IDE to firewire boxes didn't arrive and i assume they won't. So firewire storage is also out of scope. DV only, easily expandable. Let's define it as "Stage one".
Please consider this long pause as "complete life priorities re-evaluation".
Some good news to you: i've got a email access at last.

Sonic: Ok. Does this mean that the donation for DV cam repair has arrived?

If this is the case then I will write up a bounty ASAP.

No, it hasn't. And i don't know if it will ever...
People say that they have problems sending money out of european region doe to different bankong systems (to tell the truth i don't understand why, there are even services (advertized by our television) which allow quick transfers of even russian roubles from/to anywhere.

That is very troubling.. I think pegasos-sigi2 should definitely make a complaint! $150 is way to much money to just let some bank steal.

Anyway, since you want to go ahead, does this mean you can get the camera repaired anyway?

For now i can't. But bounty sum can become a motivation too.
Pegasos-sigi2 just disappeared... He doesn't respond to private messaging.
I have one more payment coming, Gunne is handling it, i hope he'll do it because he's already done it.

Hello all!
Yesterday i came to my old bank and got the money. Everything is quite okay. Thanks, Amigaharry!
The project lives.