TravelingWebGuy

This is just a quick rant here! This morning I saw a charge on my account for $139.99 from something called Buyers Advantage. I have never signed up for anything like this, nor was I aware of what this was. SO naturally, I’m a little upset and want to know just what the hell this is. I do some Googling for “Buyers Advantage charged me $139.99″ and I find hundreds of pages where people are asking the same exact question I was… “What the hell is this charge?” So feeling a little better that I wasn’t alone, I started to read some of the post and saw that a good amount of these users bought a tool called Pedi-Paws, a dog nail filer. We were sent an $8 dollar check from the company thanking us for the purchase and a “Rebate” check. What was written in, very fine-small details, that is if you cash or deposit this check, you are “opting” in for this buyers advantage program in which they will bill you $139.99 per year. (continue reading…)

My trip is approaching fast and I have started to figure out what my final pay is going to be. I have a 145 hours of vacation pay on my stub, and then I’ll clock in 115 hours of work for my last pay stub which is a 2 week period, and then that last week I work. I was doing some calculations and it was seeming I was going to get a fairly large couple of checks when I left. But, always preparing for the worst, I’m only counting on $2,500 from my Vacation pay, even though I have almost 4 weeks of pay on there. 4 weeks of pay, after taxes, would normally be about $3,500. But because Uncle Sam wants more and more of our money and find ways to tax you as much as possible, my vacation pay is going to be looked at as a Bonus. So that means they are going to tax it at 42.75%. This isn’t a bonus, why in the hell tax it as such? If I was just taking two weeks off, I would get normal tax, but because I worked and didn’t take a vacation, they, as in the Government, is going to penalize me for it? (continue reading…)

I can’t believe this situation is happening again! Last week, a young couple in the process of moving to another apartment, made a call to the local police to file a missing persons report. The missing person in question was a 9 month old baby girl named Daisja Weaver. Since the report of the missing child, local news and some network news stations had started to cover this event and help locate the baby. Amber alerts were issued for Texas, federal assistance came into help, and the parents made pleads on TV to bring the baby home. The news conferences they held were tearful and heartbreaking. Every person who see’s these on the news just hope for the best and in some way to try to feel the pain the parents must be going through. The Dallas police department were offering a $10,000 reward to the rescue and safe return of their 9 month old daughter or any information that brings the arrest of the kidnapper.

But earlier today, all this turned into a familiar story… (continue reading…)