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| ChadTower:
Okay, the cost of this hobby is getting me to the point that I may well be done with it. Looking back over the last two years, my family's finances were so much better off before I started buying/working on arcade games. We're in a really tight spot at the moment, and ironically, the check I wrote out for the TZ and Shadow JUST CLEARED this week. I wrote it out in April, transferred the money into the account in April, and since the money was in, didn't verify that the check was cashed. I will look back through my statements but the bank has already verified that it was only cashed once. Assuming it had been cashed, it got lost in a major finance/work shift that we went through at the time. I switched jobs to a much lesser paying job and switched to a once monthly pay schedule. We could afford the cost at that time... but not now. Especially not after the money that I had assumed went to that check leaked to other bills over the course of the summer the way money tends to do. This is a Christmas wrecker type situation, I'm sure we've all had one, but my kids are 4 and 6 and I'll be damned if I let that happen here. We also got a letter last week from the IRS stating that there was an inconsistency in our 2003 tax return and we now owe $650, due immediately. I still have to verify that one too. I'm to the point where I'm ready to sell off every machine I have and not get any more. I'm tired of juggling everything else around the cost of this hobby. |
| Stingray:
Sorry to hear that Chad. Hope you get it all sorted out soon. Having that IRS thing sprung on you couldn't have possibly been in any way fun. -S |
| ChadTower:
Well, I thought it sucked until the $1500+ check for the pins cleared when I assumed it had done so months ago. What kind of idiots run a charity auction and then hold the checks for 5 months? |
| Jabba:
I hear ya Chad. I had Revenue Canada come after me for $6000 this past year. My accountant forgot to file a seprate T4 that I gave him. This has seriously puyt a drain on everything else. |
| Stingray:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 14, 2005, 11:49:17 am --- What kind of idiots run a charity auction and then hold the checks for 5 months? --- End quote --- Perhaps the same idiots who run the "property owners association" where I live. The asociation seems to exist for no purpose other than to collect dues - they certainly don't do anything else. I've had checks I wrote to them not go through my bank account for an entire year. -S |
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