Sticks in the wheels...

[meadow_wind]

I like the quotation of your dad. Do you have it in French?

On n'attire pas les mouches avec du fiel, on les attire avec du miel.

Fiel : AU FIGURÉ•LITTÉRAIRE
Amertume qui s'accompagne de méchanceté.

 

[meadow_wind]

Strange. Secure Payment is more or less a standard at Alibaba now.

I'm sure it is, but as with any other services rendered by those platforms, they have fees that are usually a % of the amount sent. It becomes a lot more expensive than the one-time bank fee of 30-40$.

 

[goyacobol]

That's quite an adventure. At the end of the day, you're going to get the HBOT chamber no matter what, so what you're going through may as well be called a quest, like in an RPG. If the wire transfer fails again, laugh, keep going, and see how many more times it happens before you finally "ding." Become fascinated by the situation.

If this post makes you more upset, sorry.

@Andrey,

Acronyms can be good when universally understood. Being an old guy I can never keep up.

RPG was an early programming language I learned years ago.

Now RPG has at least 3 meanings:

RPG | ˌär ˌpē ˈjē |


abbreviation


1 report program generator, a high-level commercial computer programming language.


2 rocket-propelled grenade.


3 role-playing game.

I suppose "role-playing-game" makes the most sense now.

Hope this is a little humor for you @meadow_wind and you get the HBOT soon.

 

[Goemon_]

That won't be a problem; the bank manager is a very sweet woman. Plus my dad always says bees are attracted to honey (bad translation of some French saying, but it's the same idea), meaning you have more chance to get what you ask for by being sweet.

expressio.fr give those equivalences :
UK: honey catches more flies than vinegar
US: you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
Scottish Gaelic: softly, softly catchee monkee

 

[meadow_wind]

Scottish Gaelic: softly, softly catchee monkee

Gaelic is quite different from the others, it's interesting...

I suppose "role-playing-game" makes the most sense now.

Yes indeed in this context it meant Role Playing Game and when I said FFIII it meant Final Fantasy 3

 

[meadow_wind]

I might be on the verge of breaking some bank failure Guinness record, cause my wire has been refused/returned to my account for a 4th time...