"I am a simple man, I do not like complications. I like what is natural. The same in music.", so starts one of my all time favourite songs by an artist I do not even know the name of. That is the case with much of music in my life, but sadly not with women, as their names especially those that wronged me I will forever and always know forwards and backwards. And now I own Reason 10 to further my music hobby, and I downloaded it from the official Propellerheads site, without paying a penny for it, kinda sorta for realsies. Here is how it happened and why the banking industry seems to be full of mental patients who truly are crooks of the worst sort. Allow me the pleasure of teaching you a learn or two.
Here in Canada we have a giant telecom named Bell. They started a Mental Health campaign with the slogan of "Let's Talk". Apparently Canadians are such self-centered egotists they rarely talk amongst themselves. This is no more evident than if you have ever been involved with the judicial or other such systems. My father died after dealing with the Toronto Police so I am a witness of how poorly these town folk communicate even in Toronto. It's no wonder the banking world is full of these people in dire need of the assistance of us normal musician folk with our accordians. We are the stars that tell everyone who and what love is, because were it up to the chiefs of police, well, let's just say a certain game with tears would be what y'all would be singing from behind bars. Remember that film bobcats? All that stuff aside, I made Scotiabank $50 richer without doing anything wrong, Propellerheads got their $180, and I still owe the money for Reason 10 despite downloading it legally, installing it legally, and writing a song legally with it. This is what you "normal" (albeit mental patients) created with all your university-level degrees, and me the high-school drop out finds absolutely repulsive and detestable as a status quo type of social service and machinery. If this was my method of transacting globally I would not just shit in my pants I would immediately check myself into a psych ward. Imagine paying a farmer for tomatos, the farmer gets the money, you eat the tomatos at home, and you open your wallet and in it is a note saying because you didn't pay for the tomatos you still owe for them and have to pay a $50 fine for a cheque that didn't clear. Yet you paid in cash. No cheques were involved, no rain checks, no IOUs. I clicked a button, and money disappeared. Poof, now I am truly Richer Than I Think(MT). What I would have done with that fifty bucks is played 5 video games at the .. get this, Scotiabank IMAX VR. Instead Scotiabank CEO just got a free fifty bucks without me receiving a single thing in return. How is that fair? I want my VR time back dear CEO!
So here is what happened. On June 1st I went to Propsheads and clicked the Upgrade button, chose PayPal and paid $180 through the interface, though I did have to login twice for some reason. Then I got the download link, and an email, and all that, and downloaded it. Because I really love my old Reason I didn't upgrade right away but got both the Mac and PC versions. Kept composing a track in the older version until i was happy with it - just how we musicians are sometimes - and then a few days later upgraded my Mac to R10. It's amazing, the spinning cap dudes made an awesome upgrade. I just dislike a few things but I'll write about those later. So I paid, downloaded, and used their software. I'm not a pirate, I swear! During that time I went shopping for some t-shirts at the mighty A&F store, and bought a soccer ball and some drinks and such. My bank account went to zero and I couldn't shop no more, obviously, and I sat down and upgraded like I said and wrote a bit. Then I looked at my bank account to see if I have three bucks for a Coke bottle. And ta-da, it was at negative a hundred and eighty! So I presumed PayPal transactions cleared a few days later so no big deal, I deposited $200 and was about thirty dollars in the clear and went and bought food, pizza, coke and so on and again was at zero. This is how we rich musician live due to your Pirate Bay habbits, y'all! Anyway, this morning I had a lovely surprise as my bank account jumped to $180 all by itself. And then it magically went down to $130. I looked a bit, and when I realized it laughed my butt off and went to play soccer instead of killing a few Scotiabank employees. Turns out, now PayPal tried to charge me the $180 for Reason 10, and it couldn't as I had no money, so the bank returned the charge but took a $50 for NSF fee (non-sufficient funds) and I was left with $130 in my account. Propellerheads got their money from Paypal though. So I checked my email and I have one from PayPal Inc saying I owe them $180 still. So what it boils down to is this. I logged in right in between transactions. Scotiabank doesn't check if the money is in the account. They take the money out, making a negative transaction, and then if it's negative, charge you a fifty dollar fee, and then the failed transaction is returned and you have zero. But because money was deposited in between and I spent it, now I'm at positive $130; would've been $180 except for the fifty NSF fee. Still with me? No? It's okay the teller couldn't keep up either.
Essentially, five days PayPal lead time means the merchants get their money and then PayPal tries to pay for it by charging customers. If they fail, your PayPal account is negative and you can't shop until you clear it. They are an intermediary, a cushion, a pillow if you will. The fact that online retailers do not issue warnings before giving you a product is unfair and unjust. The fact that people have been accepting this as the status quo tells you just how oppressed you all are. The fact that I lost $50 without it being my fault whatsoever tells you what mental patients are running Canadian banking and other sectors of North America. So yeah Bell, Let's Talk. Except I can't find my 50 cents for a phone call anymore, or was that 50 bucks? I remember when it was a quarter, but since you doubled that and removed all the payphones, who knows what else is in store for us normal people eh? Good thing we can figure out your one million points of by laws for every little service you rich people wish us to enjoy, use, and be thrilled with. Next time I buy Shwarma, I will make sure to use a similarly convoluted premise. "Dear Chef, the money I left for you on the moon, you just have to go and get it, honest!". Oh and learn physics, chemistry, and biology, and physiology. Not my fault boss, those are my rules. You got yours, I got mine, eh? Now back to Reason 5. Good thing I didn't upgrade my laptop with this shit.
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