yeah steve told me "of course we wont take away vip status during this"
I've been weighing my options for the week and still seem to be leaning toward Canada, I was a bit disappointed that the VIP email I just got from Gareth saying that we were getting our funds as soon as they found a processor then said, "likely in several weeks"
Still much better than Neteller when that went down but I was definitely hoping to get up and going before June if not sooner. That's not realistic for me though until I can withdraw, I'm pretty much busto irl.
Anyway though I've been reading the speculation about the banks and thanks to the one link it looks like a US passport and US driver's license should be enough to get an account open, but what about the whole "6 months in Canada without a visa".
Does anyone know how that works or a site they could point me to? I have friends and family only about 1.5 hours south of Canada so I would probably be leaving for a few days every 2 weeks minimum. Does this 6 months reset every time you leave? Does it have to be a certain amount of time you're gone for? How would they even know I was residing there?
Like if I go up for say 3 weeks, come back down for 4 days go back for 1 week down for 2 days etc the whole time it seems like if they were tracking that at the border it would look like I was just visiting and going back and forth (which I would be). It might look a little suspicious for drug activity but I've been searched by Canadian border patrol before, no biggie just slows you down an hour.
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Originally Posted by DamienT
If your US card got stollen, the thief can pretty much buy everything he wants, everywhere he wants.
(I assume the fact that you have to sign is an useless security)
I have no clue why we don't use PINs on credit cards, it isnt like the technology isn't there it definitely is, we've had Pins on debit cards forever, it's just their choice I guess, we only use PINs on CCs for getting cash advances. I've always thought the signing aspect of a credit card was weak security, but as said you report it stolen and you get your money back. It happened to me once and my money was back in no time with practically no questions asked, it made me think about 'fake stealing' from myself tbh.
Last edited by MellowYellow; 04-22-2011 at 01:09 PM.