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#3159573 14-Nov-2023 23:03

T7 sale.

This shirt was $12.49 yesterday.
Torpedo7 Women's Organic Graphic Relaxed Fit Short Sleeve T- - Elderberry | Torpedo7 NZ

Now it's $24.99 B1G1F lol

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#3159575 14-Nov-2023 23:35

msukiwi:

How IMPOSSIBLE it is to get a refund from Spark for a Deceased Account!

Unbelievable that the Online Form has a check box that is compulsory to tick stating that "YOU are the Account Holder"!!!!!!!!

NO! He is Deceased!

Then try phone, where the CSR wanted my and the Wife's full names and DOB! WTH has that got to do with anything!

Most people probably give up! Select that you are a non Spark customer and the IVR refers you to Their App, WhatsApp, etc but NO Email option!

W T F !!!!!

Sensible companies will have a policy on what is needed for a deceased person. They will not normally just take your word for it - you will usually need to at least email them a scan or photo of the death certificate. For serious accounts (eg bank, Inland Revenue, life insurance), they will usually ask for a certified copy of the death certificate, and you will need to find a JP and pay them to make you enough certified copies for everyone who will need one, and then send the company a physical stamped copy. And then if there is serious money involved, they will need to have proof of who the executors of the estate are, so that they can send the money to the right person for correct distribution. If the deceased's bank account they were using to pay from is still around, getting them to send the money back to that should be easier. So the first step with any company is to ask them what their policy is.

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#3159625 15-Nov-2023 09:47

fe31nz:Sensible companies ...

Yup - You summed it up well!

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#3159628 15-Nov-2023 09:50

fe31nz:

Sensible companies will have a policy on what is needed for a deceased person. They will not normally just take your word for it - you will usually need to at least email them a scan or photo of the death certificate. For serious accounts (eg bank, Inland Revenue, life insurance), they will usually ask for a certified copy of the death certificate, and you will need to find a JP and pay them to make you enough certified copies for everyone who will need one, and then send the company a physical stamped copy.

Your nearest District Court will usually provide this service for no payment.
Take your original and copy/copies to the public counter and explain what you want. I have always found them to be helpful and pretty quick.

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#3159705 15-Nov-2023 10:42

Hellers Products | Sausages, Bacon, Burgers & Meatballs NZ

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#3159709 15-Nov-2023 10:50

I will give the burger ring ones a shot because that might work out ok. But rashuns are just gross so will pass on that.

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#3161527 20-Nov-2023 12:42

Log into the AMI portal, where policies are in joint names, to insure a new (to us) vehicle, after the previous one was written off after being rear-ended.

Go 99% of way through process and realise that online form only allows to insure in my name, so ring (offshore??) Contact Centre and confirm that is the case, but I can phone them back to transfer into joint names when done.

Complete online application, get email confirmation of policy, phone to get put into joint names.

Not possible, will need to cancel original and create new policy with Contact Centre agent over phone - will take approx 30 minutes.

Told them their systems were rubbish and back in my day working for an insurance company (admittedly 20+ years ago), both taking out a policy, or transferring one into joint names was a simple process that did not require restarting the procedure from scratch. Hung up...

I fear I'm turning into a grumpy old man, but honestly who even designed this process? We cannot be the only people who want the policy ownership in joint names. Customer Service is dead.

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#3161541 20-Nov-2023 13:36

fe31nz:

Sensible companies will have a policy on what is needed for a deceased person. They will not normally just take your word for it - you will usually need to at least email them a scan or photo of the death certificate. For serious accounts (eg bank, Inland Revenue, life insurance), they will usually ask for a certified copy of the death certificate, and you will need to find a JP and pay them to make you enough certified copies for everyone who will need one, and then send the company a physical stamped copy. And then if there is serious money involved, they will need to have proof of who the executors of the estate are, so that they can send the money to the right person for correct distribution. If the deceased's bank account they were using to pay from is still around, getting them to send the money back to that should be easier. So the first step with any company is to ask them what their policy is.

Huh? It's literally illegal for a Justice of the Peace to charge for the service. You're thinking of Notaries Public.

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#3162115 21-Nov-2023 14:15

What the Flybuys email just received says:

What the Flybuys website says:

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#3162138 21-Nov-2023 14:54

I emailed them, and got an automatic reply stating up to 5 working days to reply.

On hold for 40 minutes so far, with repeating "very high call volume" etc every 30 seconds or so! Torture!

Edited to add:

OK, you have to buy 10 x $5 NW Gift cards to get the deal!

Does not apply to 1 x $50 card!

Sheesh, clear as mud on their email etc!

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#3162230 21-Nov-2023 19:16

What in the weird sort of bug was this?!

I often have Discord running, but when I closed it I could faintly see the window showing "through" the desktop background, looking almost like the old CRT burn-in. Even when I launched a game in full screen, I could still see a faint ghost of the window.

Logging out of my user account removed the ghost window, then logging back in restored it. It persisted across a "warm" reboot but disappeared after a "cold" one.

I can only assume that some obscure bug in the window compositor (is that the right word?) caused a copy of the window to get set as always on top, with 99% transparency, and I guess furthermore that it got cached somehow. It was a bit concerning at first because I thought it was a hardware issue, and this display wasn't cheap!

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#3162797 23-Nov-2023 13:08

Unusual car accident at USA Canadian border. Latest update says not terrorism. What is this car?

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#3162800 23-Nov-2023 13:11

That's some Dukes of Hazard / Evil Knievil action right there!

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#3163570 25-Nov-2023 14:23

An aircraft / drone or whatever with ICAO code of C826AF has regularly been doing circuits and doughnuts near Lake Ellesmere (Christchurch) at about 5000ft!

According to CAA - It doesn't exist!