Apparantly there are reports on it :

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...blems-1175522/

Yeah people were talking about it in the rosa skype chat. The Mexican rep said to post ITT

As far as a quick vacation to Mexico to set that up, it's not that easy. I found out a month after i set it up that my bank account had been frozen/cancelled because i had a passport card instead of a book. Also, its tough to verify your address with MB is tough because there really isnt mail here and you verify by having a letter with a code sent to you. People have also had issues with incoming and outgoing wires from Mex banks so verifying your address might be tough. You also need a lease and utility bill to open a bank account so just a short vacation might not do it.

In my experience at least.

I got a reply from normal support two days ago saying I was in que. SOP delays for most poker sites, but first time I've experienced it in 8+ years on Stars.

Okay, delays for a lot of people makes way more sense.

Though I was hoping they'd caught some colluders, were checking everyone out, and I'd get a fat refund on top

Some quality trolling of microbet in OOT today http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...anels-1175458/

Microbet does some great work in that thread as well

Sorry to be wasting my jokes in oot, but there's just not enough time wasting in this thread alone.

Talking about jokes

I requested a euro wire cashout 3/2 and got approved and sent 3/6 fwiw.

Yeah, well I have clean water and 24 hour electricity but you don't hear me bragging.

Sorry braminc, us internet poker oppressed Americans get a little jealous at the great freedom you enjoy in the middle east and sometimes I lose it a little.

I'm friends with an up and coming stand up comedian named Ben Moore. He tours and just started getting some headlining gigs, and does some morning radio stuff on Bob and Tom and the like, but he is still relatively unknown.

A couple months ago I approached him about recording a show, he was a little hesitant, but I convinced him it was a no risk proposition because if it didn't turn out well we could just burn the tapes and move on.
We made some arrangements to record his shows headlining at The Comedy Attic, which is his home club.

The day of the show, a massive ice storm hit and turned the whole town in to a skating rink. It was the kind of thing that makes sensible people stay home.
The show sold out anyway, had a tremendous atmosphere and Ben killed.

That was 6 weeks ago. Yesterday, he put the album up on iTunes. No label, no media, no promotion beyond a couple facebook posts and word of mouth.
As I type this, it is in the top 50 comedy albums on iTunes. Sandwiched between the most recent releases by Dane Cook and Jeff Dunham, and its rising.

I'm not sure how this is going to end up, but its pretty cool.

If you like stand up, check him out.



Ben Moore: herstory on iTunes

I apologize if thise comes off as a little spammy, but I'm not making anything off this, I'm just helping a friend and going along for a fun ride.

He looks like he'd be funny....

too bad itunes is going to **** him sideways out of $

tell him to hire someone to make him a website and to sell all of his stuff on that website. best decision he will ever make.

Isnt being a itunes as much about the marketing as it is the site and point of sell?

there's only about a bajillion other ways to advertise/get your name out there. but for some reason, the masses LOVE giving money to apple.

For a first release album itunes makes a lot of sense I would think. Get huge exposure hopefully and build a name for yourself, then open a website

look familiar to anyone?

wouldn't that mean that itunes is the best way to advertise?

touche

'arguably' the best. 'arguably' many more methods that work just as well.

let me guess, set over set?

I don't see any logical argument that getting into the top 50 of iTunes anything being new and unrepresented is bad for him at all.

I love spreading around young good talent kudos to him

it's not bad for him. no one is saying that. Apple is just going to take most of his profit.

You could make a killing in TJ...

Yeah cake theyre gonna take more of his profit than anyone else but if he ends up getting more profit because of higher sales and more recognition which will help him in the future when he can sell on his own or through a smaller outlet, he isnt really gettting exploited or whatever.

it's the internet, cmon guys.

he can get all of that without forking over profit to some company

blackize, the contract he signed with Apple may not let him do that.

Why did 2+2 "forget" me?

Pfft. STTF has been my home page for years but today I had to sign in again.

Naturally, I forgot my password because it's been years since I signed up. To their credit, they sent me a new one nix-nox. Yay.

Still, was this part of their migration process or am I just special in that "special" sort of way?