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Response from I-Web to my question regarding potential payments.
Good afternoon, you’re through to XXXXX, we have been actively contacting them but have heard nothing from them as of yet we will let customers know once we have something from them.
Great idea Spartacus. A bit of WD40 on the floor and the low bar will help Spikey with his slithering.
The good thing about setting a low bar from your point of view Spikey, is that you will always be able to slither under it.
I am not sure that "Lots Of Love" counts as words of wisdom!!
Spikey, where are you? I was sure that you would have jumped onto this update with your usual alacrity and that you would have something to say!! I await your input and hang on with baited breath to hear your words of wisdom.
I am a holder here and I hope for a decent outcome (note the word hope) but I does now seem increasingly unlikely. There may be several things happening:
• Website hijacked and somebody is having a bit of fun. This seems unlikely to me since I am sure that Amit would have been aware a long time ago and would have ordered that the site be closed or at least made more secure.
• Amit is playing games for the sheer joy of it. This also seems unlikely as he still has some kind of reputation to consider and if he wants to do business in the future, he will not be engendering much confidence if he is just playing games here.
• He is genuine and the updates are genuine, but he has not been able to make parts of the deal or money transfer stick. Again, this mess will not have engendered much confidence in others who he may wish to do business with in the future.
• He is stalling for time for some reason but if that is the case why would he ever have announced anything in the first place? Surely, he would have delayed any announcement or maybe not even made any announcements at all.
• In fact, if this is all a big scam why would he ever have raised his head above the parapet and opened himself up to scrutiny with the potential of being pursued through legal action? We were all sitting here fat dumb and happy until he started firing out updates and I suspect we all thought that our investment was dead and buried.
• Other possibilities that I have not thought of!!!!
The bottom line is that neither I nor any of the other contributors to this board actually know what the F is going on and all we can do is speculate. All I can say is that some of the speculation is probably correct and some of it is probably incorrect and if I get paid out, I will know that he was genuine. If I don’t get paid out, I will know that he is not genuine but how long I wait before I come to that conclusion is a mystery even to me.
"SURELY THE ABOVE SAYS IT ALL" - Nope it says nothing at all except to the type of person that looks at their shoes when they are talking to you and who shouts inappropriately.
The media/news page has often gone offline for a day or two prior to an update in that past, however the rest of the website has remained online, contact page, investors page etc. On this occasion it looks different. I am not able to view any part of the website so this is a worry. I don't know what it means, I am not going to speculate on what it means but I do wonder if we will see an update as we have in the past when the update page has not been visible for a while. Lets wait and see if we get a Friday PM update.
I suspect that you are right Angus but it is never over until the “full-figured” lady with the ludicrously large BMI decides to sing. My money is on "you're the one for me, fatty" by Morrissey.
1 - I am about as far from being stressed out as can be. I am so laid back that I cant see over my own pelvis.
2- I fail to see how I have changed my tune. I have simply pointed out that you have made a move that could ensure that there is no payout. Even if we do all accept that the chances are disappearingly small, you may have just reduced them considerably.
3 - SFO, independent view. Too what end? What will that accomplish? At best "Oh dear Amit, you have been very naughty so don't do it again please". To think that you called canaries naive!
4 - What has my posting history got to do with the price of carrots? Nothing, that's what, unless of course you want it to!!!
Amit may pay us out or he may not. We don't know for sure do we but what we do know is that if/when SFO gets involved any chance of a payout, no matter how small that chance may be will completely evaporate. The SFO will not be able to get our money back from Amit, any funds will all have been disappeared if he wants and in any case he will be living in a place where UK jurisdiction has no currency.
I am sure that you are very pleased with yourself Doug.
Congratulations Dougb189. I think that you may have successfully put the tin lid on this. If the SFO gets involved and should there have been any chance whatsoever of a payout I believe that you may have just bought that to a grinding halt. If there is going to be an investigation all activity will need to be frozen until the matter is resolved thus guaranteeing that there is no payout in foreseeable future. So jolly well done Doug!!!!
Yeah be careful AIM4 and 1984, I am a traffic warden, I've got my own notepad, hat and everything. On an unrelated matter does anyone know why people keep punching me? Its getting annoying now.
Perhaps they lack "have a break" B3ast 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ohhh, the irony B3ast 🤣
Well, if I do get something I will have more money than I have now. If I don't get anything I will have the same money that I have now. I am not going to stress about it. To be honest if I end up not getting what has been promised it will be the lies than will irritate me more than not having the money. Either way Amit will not cause me to kick my dog, although it might be sufficient reason for me to kick next doors mangy cat.
Steelbru, I agree with your calculations give or take a nats crotchet.
Emirates! Nice, Boeing or the Bus?
You are of course absolutely correct and DaaP payment is not is escrow as far as we know. Hopefully Avi8r now understands a bit more about escrow but it is a moot point anyway.
You are wrong Avi8r. Interest can be charged on Escrow funds and very often is. You may be thinking that banks don't pay interest on mortgage funds deposited into escrow but that is just banks being banks. This is not about mortgages though is it. I know its a difficult concept to understand but you chose to overlook that!
In any case the pot of funds can be added to at any stage if BOTH parties agree. In this case i suspect that the customer is agreeing to make an additional payment into the account lieu of interest. The escrow account doesn't need to know or care why the additional payment is being made as long as the escrow agreement reflects either the specific additional payment or the original escrow agreement allows for this additional payment.