I hate Chase bank… WaMu was AWESOME! and then these ass-hole Chase banks come and take them all over!

WaMu never had any issues but Chase has done nothing but give me problems.

Chase bank refuses to cash any of my checks through their tellers unless the check is from Chase bank! they force me to wait 24 hours to withdraw any of my money! However, if I go to a Chase ATM and deposit a check and then withdraw the funds I have found that the ATM will allow me (even if the teller wont!)
So I have recently been doing this to avoid having to walk into a branch and feel the evil aura that every JP Morgan Chase branch emits.
So the other day I go and cash my check at an ATM without realizing or knowing that my account had been over drafted $.25.
*BAM*
Chase hits me with a $35 fee!

OUCH!

But since I did a deposit withdraw that same day without realizing my account was overdrawn

*BAM*
Chase hit me with ANOTHER $35 fee!

So I go in the next day to make a deposit and they tell me that I owe them $70!

I tried to get the bank to wave the second overdraft charge but they refuse.

I’m very confused at this point because I have setup an EMAIL NOTIFICATION SYSTEM to let me know IMMEDIATELY if I over drafted the account.  Sure enough, the email came!

2 DAYS LATE!

If their notification system was working properly I could have avoided the other charge!  but is it their fault?

Apparently not! because they have refused to refund the second overdraft charge!

THANKS CHASE BANK! You SUCK! I would close my account but I can’t find a good bank out there to switch to!

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Austin and Central Texas Laser Light Shows at YOUR party or in YOUR backyard! Click the link for more pics or contact me for more information.

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Good evening friends and thank you for reading my blog. I have been rather frustrated recently and working my ass off to make ends meet so I haven’t been able to blog much over the last few months. You know its really annoying when people you do work for don’t pay you when they are supposed to, or at all. I’m so fed up with having to deal with issues from those people out there who owe me money. This is one of those situations:

In July 2007 I received a phone call from a business partner of mine. He informed me he had just received a call from Earth Dance Austin asking him to show some artwork at their festival in September 2009. He informed me that he wanted to bring some other artists out to the event and asked me to make some phone calls. I called one of my artist friends and he said he was very interested in vending at the Earth Dance event. He notified me that if I payed the $100 vending cost he would compensate me so he could attend. I went ahead and made the payment via paypal and sent him the application to fill out.

Well in the middle of August I was notified by my friend that the Earth Dance event in central Texas was canceled. Notified by my friend NOT the event promoters. Earth Dance Austin made NO effort to inform me of their canceled event via email or otherwise. I contacted Austin Earth Dance and asked why the event was being canceled and requested a refund for the $100 vending permit I had purchased for my friend. Earthdance Austin did not contact me back at all. After a week I logged into paypal and filed a dispute over the payment. Paypal sent the dispute to Earth Dance Austin and notified me that Earth Dance Austin stated: “If an event date/time is rescheduled or postponed, there are no cancellations, refunds, or exchanges.”
I found this very interesting considering that they did not make this statement when I made the purchase and it was also not included on the vendor application. This statement was made AFTER THE EVENT HAD ALREADY BEEN CANCELED! As you can expect I was rather upset.

I notified paypal that the terms of refund had not been clearly stated at the time of checkout and only AFTER THE EVENT WAS CANCELED. Paypal deemed the claim in my favor and would have awarded me my $100 had Earth Dance Austin not cleared their account out already. Earthdance Austin also tried to get me to attend an alternative event in exchange for attending the Earth Dance event. I did not attend and had no interest in the alternative event for the following reasons: The alternative event was not promoted well and nobody I knew had heard about it. The alternative event catered more to music and musicians while the Earth Dance event catered to artists. It was for these reasons that the artist I was representing did not want to attend the alternative event.

So now what should I do? Paypal had approved me for my refund but Earthdance had cleared the account out before I could receive it. I did not want to take any of the alternative events because they were not the crowd we had been expecting to vend to. I emailed Earth Dance Austin several times asking them for my refund with NO RESPONSE! I then decided to email the Earth Dance Umbrella Organization and explain the situation to them.

Reavis Daniel Moore, the co-founder of Earth Dance, contacted me back and said that “We are following up and will try to help resolve. Earthdance promoters are independent and we don’t control budgets/finances. But we are doing all we can to get this sorted.” I have emailed him and called him since with no further reply. However after I emailed Reavis Daniel Moore I did finally receive an email back from Darla Horton at Earth Dance Austin. This email contained an attachment from another vendor who was also upset with Earth Dance Austin over their event. Darla Horton told me “If the group (EDA) will not go forward with the refund, I personally will make sure I get you the money back.” This has not happened and I have had no further response from Darla Horton, even after sending multiple emails.

I contacted the other company that had had complaints with Earth Dance Austin. They informed me they had decided to attend the alternative event and it was a nightmare. Not only was there a very small crowd but they had some of their inventory stolen and ended up loosing money over the whole event. They informed me that I could use them as a reference if I wanted to file with the Better Business Bureau. I decided to give Earth Dance Austin another chance and sent another round of emails. After I received no response I followed through with my formal complaint to the Better Business Bureau. I did not mention the other company and only stated my personal complaint and issues with the organization.

Now it is November 2009, this issue has been ongoing since August and I still have not been reimbursed for my $100. I have continued to send emails and did receive another response from the Earth Dance umbrella organization, this time from Abigail Lewis the Executive Director of Earthdance International. Abigail Lewis told me “Earthdance International is not directly involved in nor do we have control over individual event productions, but we certainly do not want anyone to have an experience such as yours. We will keep you posted.” I contacted her back requesting a resolution and have still had no response from her or anyone else affiliated with Earth Dance or Earth Dance Austin.

It is my opinion that Earth Dance Austin has scammed those interested in participating in their event. It is my opinion that they have taken payment for ticket and vendor sales and used the money for other purposes. They did not properly notify participants of the cancellation and tried to pawn everyone off on an alternative event that was much smaller and less successful than the one they originally promoted and promised. It appears to me that they have no intention of repaying me my one hundred dollars. It is for that reason that I am writing this article to inform others so that nobody else falls for the Earth Dance Austin Scam. I do not want to participate in any Earth Dance event in the future and I urge you to participate AT YOUR OWN RISK.

UPDATE: After I created this post I logged onto the earth dance site and began to send their members links to it so that others could be warned about the risk of dealing with this organization. Reavis Daniel Moore contacted me and said that they were still trying to resolve the issue but in my opinion that was a lie. Earthdance also banned me from their network. I have sent them several paypal invoices and tried everything short of a small claims lawsuit to recover my money. I’m considering taking this step or getting with others who got ripped off to file a class action suit against the organization. Times are tough these days and that $100 would have really helped me out. The money I was expecting to make at their event would have helped out more. Instead they have screwed me over and I feel ripped off.
I have also talked to quite a few other people who were trying to work with the Austin Earth Dance organization and the general consensus is that they did not do anything right in the organization of their event. I would like to warn the community and let them know to avoid doing business with the people involved with Earth Dance Austin. I understand that because of the bad press they have received they will be changing the organization name. No matter what they change it to I would advise anyone to avoid doing business with Reavis Daniel Moore or Darla Horton.

Event: Art Outside 2009
Location: Apache Pass 9112 N FM 908 Rockdale TX 76567
Link to Event: www.artoutside.org
Description: 3 complete days of:
Art, Music, Film, Fashion, Food, Comedy, Workshops,
Start Date: 2009-10-09
End Date: 2009-10-11

The Following Posts are all speeches I gave for my college speech class in 2006. Pulled them out of the archives and decieded to re-post them. Enjoy!

Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls, welcome to the 2005 Darwin Awards!  Today we are here to recognize those unfortunate individuals who gave up their lives for the cleansing of the gene pool. Natural selection has taken its toll due to their idiotic actions and moronic behavior.
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Did They Make The Cure Illegal?
Part one: Neurogenesis             
Nathan Goodfellow

Introduction: Attention:  I was at an old friend’s house the other day, when he pulled out a blunt.  When he offered me a puff I declined.  He looked at me in surprise and said: “Yo… Dude, man… I like, uh the other day read… that this stuff makes you smarter… man… and if you… uh… like smoke it all the time and stuff, your brain gets bigger!”  I just looked at him and laughed.  “Naw, man… its for real… man, I read it on the internet.”  “Dude, you can’t even remember my name, and you’re trying to tell me smoking pot makes you smarter?  I think you smoked yourself retarded.”

Credibility:  So I went home, and did some research on the internet.  Sure enough, the old hippie wasn’t just blowing smoke.  Apparently two Canadian Universities have been studying how cannabis affects the brain.  The University of Saskatchewan and the University of Calgary have both done extensive research. (American Society for Clinical Investigation)

Thesis:  What I want you to understand today is how synthetic drugs created from marijuana are being used to create neruogenesis in the brain.

Importance: This is important not only because of the benefits of marijuana based drugs but also because further research in America is restricted due to its legality.

Preview: So today I am going to explain to you what neurogenesis is, how marijuana affects it and what the test results were when lab rats were injected with a marijuana derived compound.

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Did They Make The Cure Illegal?
Part two: Reformation                   
Nathan Goodfellow

Introduction: Attention:  January 18, 1920 alcohol was made illegal.  The aftermath that followed was devastating.  Mobs ran rampant in the street due to their increased profit from bootlegging.  Stills were setup underground to keep the supply to those who would pay.  Underground taverns opened up with violent police raids regularly.  All of this led to all states legalizing alcohol by 1966.(Wikipedia)  Thesis:  I am here today to convince you that prohibition still does not work.  Marijuana was made illegal throughout the United States on August 2, 1937.(Wikipedia)  Drug money still supports gangs and the violence that accompanies them.  Underground hydroponics labs are setup all over the nation and marijuana is smuggled into the country, just to keep the peaceful pot-heads high.  Credibility:  I first used marijuana when I was 15 years old.  Since then I have been an avid supporter of NORML (The National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws) and very outspoken on the issue of marijuana prohibition.  Now I pass on the peace pipe, but my views remain unchanged.  Preview: Today I am going to explain to you why marijuana is illegal, what problems have risen from its prohibition and how legalization is a productive solution.

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…….since I have posted to my wonderful and random web blog.  So I decided today that its time to create some more adversity amongst my readers.  So without further adu… adou… adubt…. a-doo… (how the hell do you spell it!)

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Exactly…

so now on to more pressing matters…

Haven Meadows (dot) com…

YES go there, check it out!  See artwork like THIS:

CLICK IT!  You know you want to….

And now to more things you should click:

Both of them need to be updated but I’ve been busy!

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Sorry guys,  go check em out anyway!  Good stuff there!

While your at it, have you seen the items I have for sale for local pickup or delivery in the Austin TX area?

just go to:  http://www.assetrenew.com

Check out what is available.

I also have a new idea for a business building online stores for people.  Wanna know how it works?  Need an online store for yourself?  Then Contact Me for more info!

Ok… so what other projects do I have going on right now…

Oh yeah!  Have you heard of Liquid Media Lab?  or Waveform Lasers?

(click the links)

ok….. what else, what else…

oh yeah!  I have a new camera!

The Panasonic Lumix G1 is the world first Micro 4/3 Lens Camera.

“What does that mean Nate?”

Well, in all older SLR cameras the camera had a mirror box that would reflect what was seen through the lens up to the viewfinder so the photographer could look through and capture his image perfectly.  With the Panasonic Lumix g1 this mirror box was removed and replaced with a small lcd screen.  This allowed the SLR to become much more compact.

Now there are two companies that have adapted this new lens standard.  Olympus has been working on a micro 4/3 point and shoot while Panasonic has come out with the Lumix g1 (and also the GH1 that has the ability to shoot HD video)

So now I have this beautiful new micro 4/3 SLR camera that I can go out and take amazing photographs with as well as do professional photo shoots.

Interested in hiring a photographer? videographer?  graphic designer?  web developer?

CONTACT ME

Today I stumbled across an interesting website:  The Million Dollar Homepage
What a great idea!  This site creator made a web advertising space that was 1,000 pixels square and sold each pixel for $1.  So to have a 10×10 spot (smaller than the size of my tiny little icon next to my page up there in the browser) you had to pay $100.  Then to purchase larger pixel areas you just add another $100 for each 10×10 square.  Well with 1,000,000 available pixels selling for $1 each the total value of that small single page is one million dollars.  Such a simple idea, so easy to create!  And now the creator is a millionaire with very little effort applied.  Genius!

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