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Mass payments have been made, check your accounts. I have attempted to email or text those owed money to notify them they have money waiting for them in paypal. Merry Christmas, I understand it took FAR longer than anticipated, but I stick to my word and don't abandon a debt. Again, enjoy your holidays.
If this is true and you payed everyone, I truly truly commend you. I know times can get tough, but a person who honors their debts no matter what (even if it takes longer than expected) is a good guy in my book. It does suck for the people waiting on the money (as they could have been in just as dire of a situation as you and also needed the money) but making them whole is infinitely better than closing up and disappearing. Even if it is late I hope the people are understanding and happy they got paid eventually rather than being out a loss forever...Quote:
Originally Posted by armygreywolf
Even big companys (enron anyone??) sometimes have issues and can pay their debts. But unlike enron, you made it happen eventually whereas they just closed up, declared bankruptcy, and shafted thousands out of money, stocks, and their pensions.... hope you are getting back on your feet.
I can confirm that a text message was received and a decent size payment was received thru PayPal. At this point, I have not received a list of our complete transaction with various purchase prices, so I do not know exactly where we stand.Quote:
Originally Posted by armygreywolf
I will post an update to my post from 2 days ago after I have figured everything out.
I would like to thank TJ for today's payment.
Yes , Payment confirmed to me for exact amount of original payout calculated. I want to thank TJ for keeping his promise as he said he would.
Hopefully he has been on the mend and will regain his health. I apologize to TJ if I came across as unsympathetic to his situation.
Merry Christmas to everyone , and best wishes for the coming new year.
kalvlin out.....
I'm glad to hear that there's been positive movement in this story. Merry Christmas!!
I'm wondering if anyone on here has shipped to TJ this year and gotten paid or has it all been finalizing payments from last year? One reason why I went with TJ in 2018 was that Wisconsin is in the SpeeDee Delivery region along with SD and my shipping costs were about half or a third to sending a box further away, such as Ohio or Colorado. I usually don't have much and have done little escrap this year but do have a box full to unloaded somewhere. We used to have a local buyer but he stiffed a guy on here that I've gotten to know so haven't used him. I should check with my friend and see if he was ever made whole by this local buyer. My local non-ferrous guy has started to buy escrap but his prices haven't been competitive to what I've seen on SMF.
DakotaRog, right now I haven't bought anything off the forum since last fall. We are getting our proverbial "$hit" straight here before we proceed further. Email me if you have specific questions. Things the market wont bear anymore are cpus and memory. Quite frankly the chinese have come in and occupied that space so thoroughly there is little point in competing when I would be paying premium, then labor, then losing the fees and whatnot. At just a glance, other members here are operating with posted prices that leave only a 8-9% overall margin and that can collapse pretty much overnight. It is too much risk for me (yes, definitely gun shy) We still have strong scrap ties and we only send boards for refining so that does mean future prices would be the same or better given the market on board scrap and so on. I did bite off quite a large portion and it got ahead of me in 2017/2018. If we continued with resale I think we would stick to what we know best, amd cpus, motherboards and graphics cards. Since I've been out I have noticed both paypal and ebay AND amazon have increased their fee structures respectively. I spent the weekend taking a look at what we should do in the future and I think the best course is to make sure we maintain customer confidence with prepayments and better communications. That said, I need to pay my taxes, settle some more medical bills and see where we stand. When I am comfortable with the situation on our end, I will let all of you know. Again, enjoy your holidays.
TJ, I'm glad to hear that you're fighting the good fight, God bless you man!! I hope you get whole on multiple fronts.
I would be thinking of stuff I have as e-scrap only, never got into salvaging usable material as some guys have. Thanks again for the update!!
Updated the top post, a few inquiries and whatnot were responded to individually by email.
One more update. I have had two dr. visits in three months and bother are no change, everything appears to be doing well (it's a good thing). I'm having quite a bit of irritable bowel and it's been kind of embarassing, that said we just drive on with life don't we.
I expect to stand up the scrap purchasing probably in the next two to three weeks. I still have a strong interest with AMD processors, it seems we have become known for good procs on our end with all of our outlets. Ebay is becoming increasingly hostile towards sellers, this caused us to split our efforts between amazon and ebay. Most likely we will shift more and more product towards amazon. Until then, the buy sheets will be small and directed at the things we have cross listed. Intel processors are incredibly volatile, probably due to 5 generations in 4 years and a pretty serious market dominance change to AMD desktop products. Memory as I'm sure Terry has kept you guys up to date on is pretty much as flooded of a market as it can possibly be. Right now we use all of our internally generated for refurbishing projects since it's just not worth the labor intensive process of sort, test, sell except when its part of a system build.
If any of you have suggestions or maybe difficulty finding outlets for scrap commodities I might be able to help with, can always email me or just respond here. Have a good week everybody.
While my post has nothing to do with scrap I can relate to what TJ is talking about. I know all about IBS, the 15 trips to the bathroom first thing in the morning, diarrhea, abdominal pains, and bleeding. There is nothing to be embarrassed about. This is a direct result from all the additives and chemicals the government allows to be in our foods (What a great way to keep our medical industry in this country busier than its ever been). When I went to the doctor to have it checked out they couldn't find anything wrong with me. Long story short I don't have time for incompetence so I looked into my own solution. I found a lot of relief when I started to eat a little poison ivy about once every 10-14 days (yes poison ivy..... the health benefits of this plant quite frankly are phenomenal.... a little research can go a long way with this...... and the oil found within the plant has been scientifically proven to kill 26 different types of cancer). I have been doing this for almost 2 years now and my bowel problems are a fraction of what they used to be. The abdominal pain is completely gone as well as the bleeding, diarrhea, and 15 trips to the bathroom first thing in the morning. Moral of the story..... If the medical industry can't resolve my problems I will. There is something out there for everybody. Good luck and best wishes with your situation.
I get horrible poison ivy when I get anywhere close to it. Also, a quick googling has show this can close airways and mess up your lungs, and digestive track. Not sure if you are joking about eating posion ivy... but that may work for you... but.... I would just encourage people to do their own research before trying this on account of..... the risk of dying vs the potential benifit.Quote:
Originally Posted by ACCR
No I am not joking. You are 100% correct to suggest people do their own research on this. I did my own research.... then I found myself comparing the scientific bloodwork I have accumulated with what’s already out there and I find my results to be congruent with what the professionals have publicly posted. I know this isn’t for everybody, but there is a lot of good information out there if you can get past the part where everybody tells you you need to go to the hospital for cortisone to reduce the itching and swelling. I want the swelling.... if that doesn’t happen then the plant probably doesn’t work. You can even get poison ivy pills on Amazon. I found them under the medical name for the plant... rhus toxicodendron. Also after almost 5 years of research I still can’t find an article or death certificate where poison ivy has specifically killed somebody.Quote:
Originally Posted by kss
I'm not certain this info will be helpful for any of you but for me LCHF diet also known as KETO has changed my life for the much better.
There is some evidence that LCHF diet has positive effects for various gut issues. I highly recommend youtube Dr Ken Berry to start with. He has lots of short videos to chose from and is not selling you anything.
When looking up information on this diet keep in mind if they are trying to sell you something move on. Its just food you purchase at your normal food store.
My results after two years: First I've been diagnosed a diabetic since 2001. I had end stage kidney disease(on dialysis for 5 1/2 years), kidney transplant May 2012, thyroid was removed somewhere in that time. And I did start scraping during this time.
Since then I went from 264 lbs to current weight of 183 lbs. I stopped insulin and other diabetes meds except Metformin. My A1C went from 8.4 to 5.8(diabetics will appreciate this). I did NO exercise, I do not miss the carbs. My blood work is fantastic and some of my doctors seem to be pissed off that it is so good.
My attitude has improved and look forward everyday. 73, Mike
miked, I have been on a STRICT keto diet for almost a year. There are two big things for those who want to try it. Carbs are very very tough to digest and require alot of liquids in your gut to process. Carbs also involve alot of conversion and free radical "trash" to get rid of in your body, so if you suffer from an auto immune disease like I do, and/or are undergoing treatment for cancer, you should not be taking in sugars or starches.
I'm trying to rewind my thoughts to a year ago, I saw a dietician who basically told me I needed to intake primarily proteins and fats until further notice. I have the situation where my body doesnt recognize my gut bacteria as helpful and I get flare ups where it believes there are foreign invaders. When that happens it attacks not just the bacteria but some intestinal tissues as well. It's similar to crohns except I don't get inflammation alone, it's full on immune system overreactions. I take medication for this these days. The downside is, both my exposure to water treatment chemicals and the current status of the disease makes it really tough to treat cancers. Surgical has worked great as well as proton therapy. I took vectibix for a while but the rashes and weird deficiencies it caused vs how effective it was without the companion of chemotherapy made it not worth the side effects. (And it wasnt covered by VA or my supplemental, I stayed on it long enough to make the medical decision and not the financial decision to stop). So all along I've actually been ok with food, and I really have to give credit to keto. It's probably the BEST thing I've ever stuck to, period. I believe both the proton therapy and keto have brought me back to where I am today.
Thanks for bringing that up mike.
I'm reluctant to say anything but sometimes it's the simple things that can make a difference. It's no easy thing to build and run a business. The stress levels of work and home life can be off the charts. Sometimes you have to go into survival mode just to keep it all going. Your whole system goes into overdrive ... including the immune system. That's good for fending off disease but sometimes the immune system attacks healthy tissue as well.
It's probably already been covered but have they checked your thyroid levels TJ ? Any thyroid storm events ?
I know i started running into thyroid issues & problems where the immune system was attacking healthy tissue when i was pulling 70 + hour work weeks. There came a point where my body just couldn't take it anymore. (Initially, it was misdiagnosed as cancer of the thyroid and i had to set the doctor straight on that.) Was on medicine to slow the thyroid for about 5 years and then both the doctor and i felt that it was time to discontinue it.
About a year or so ago i fell into the habit of drinking about 2 liters of bottled water per day. It displaced a lot of the caffeine i was taking in. Maybe it was flushing out some of the toxins as well. It seems to make a positive difference. I've got a lot more energy. The immune system symptoms are reduced to a pretty manageable level. The gut is pretty healthy and no problems on the digestive score.
IDK ... reducing stress is generally a pretty safe suggestion. Water might / might not raise havoc with your digestive problems. The key thing might be to ingest it with some kind of food that would soak up the water so that it doesn't rush through.
Is it possible that the origin of the cancer traces back to time served in the military ?
I was trained and licensed as a water treatment plant operator back in the 90's. There really wasn't anything on the job that posed a cancer risk to the operator ... that i know. THM's ( Trihalomethanes) are a by product of water chlorination. They do pose a cancer risk to the public ingesting the treated water. We used to monitor for those on a regular basis to make sure that they were kept within relatively safe levels.
~Just a few thoughts is all. ~
hills, specifically the chemical they believe to be responsible for the initial degeneration of my GI was a precipitant I dont have the name of used to settle chromium, nickel and lead out of water as part of a process KBR was using circa 2006-2007. The way VA thinks it happened is I received the majority dosage as well as some cadmium in my system in just the last few months of my deployment. One or the other caused reduced function and made me lethargic to a degree. After that it was a slow downhill slide until I finally had a full blow auto-immune attack in my GI. After than based on all the inflammation and the discovery of nodules (tumors) growing all around my cecum and inside my large intestine much like diverticuli, they treated it as cancer, where I underwent the full course over 18 months from late 2011 ish for 18 months. After which I decided to go back to WI. I had another autoimmune attack in may 2014 that we thought was a gall bladder issue. As it happens, I had infection travelign through my blood from open intestinal ulcers and my gall bladder was effectively dead. I have this neat 9 inch scar as a result. After that I had a slow recovery where we explored different auto immune medications for a couple years. I get a immunostabilizing injection every 90 days that works just like a steroid does for inflammation. Severe crohns patients take it as well. Ive taken three full courses of methotrexate which blocks cellular metabolism, and since cancer cells consume so much energy, they are first to die, or at least that is the jist. I am off that stuff now, it was reasonably effective along with surgery which has removed a ton of nodules and fixed two ulcers. I've only had a little bit of hair loss but my skin looks horrible on my chest and back, and my legs. Right now, I have no new growth, my bloodwork looks OK and the ultimate plan is to do a full course of radiation directly to the area around my cecum and large intestine. I've had 26 doses of proton therapy, 4 of targetted high energy, a couple surgeries and that is about it. I did choose to pay out of pocket some medications early on that VA had not approved use for but the outside specialist decided I needed to try a full course of because it was suspposed to work in conjunction with my immunostabilizers. The reason I cant do chemo in any capacity is because with an autoimmune disease and a compromised system, the overblown response would be worse than the chemo. All in all, I have probably had this MUCH longer than initially thought. My doctor has looked at every scan and so forth they have done on me since 2011 and believes they missed it as much as 8 years ago.
And while I am here, we are buying SCRAP again.
The more I study the connection between disease and diet I find that its very likely that carbs are the culprit. Ancel Keyes and George Mcgovern were the ones most responsible for making natural fat "bad" for us.
Instead of natural fat we've been eating chemical based "vegetable oils" which are most assuredly not natural.
Since my kidney disease was caused by an immune disorder (IgA) and blame it on the Standard American Diet (SAD) I really don't like what these two men did.
I continue to have doctors who don't like my diet even though my diabetes is nearly resolved, a loss of about 75 lbs, all my labs are in the normal range. One exception my A1C was 5.9 the last time I was tested and that is borderline diabetic. After be diagnosed a diabetic 20+ years ago I am proud of my improvements.
I feel much and perhaps all of my conditions and medical trials and tribulations would have not happened had I just eaten as I do now and as many of our forefathers did in the past.
I hope my rant inspires someone to look into the KETO diet or call it LCHF 9(low carb high fat). An easy place to start is on youtube KenDBerryMD is who I recommend to start with. If someone wants to sell you something for KETO walk away you don't need it. 73, Mike
I can't agree more, literally everything around us is carbs. My primary diet consists of unprocessed chicken, turkey, wild game (mostly venison) and beef along with cheese, butter (salted), and the vast majority by content is vegetables. Greens mostly but quite a bit of other things too with the exception of squash which actually has alot of sugars. No potatoes. I drink sugar free caffeinated stuff still...or black coffee. I actually only eat one meal a day with a snack a few hours prior. I start my day with coffee and tumeric usually along with stretches and some pushups to get the heart going. I don't eat breakfast or lunch. My first food intake is at 3pm, a snack of some kind, usually 3 ounces cooked chicken and some cheese. I eat again at 7-8pm, large meal until I feel full. I drink water or those crystal lite drinks. So for 14-15 hours I have zero food intake. During this time I am drinking alot of water, and that helps eradicate pain, it reduces inflammation, My GI doesnt have to work nearly as hard which is the primary source of all my pain (food=pain). Over the last year or so I've lost 50+ lbs, but I am fortunate with this diet I have maintained a good portion of muscle mass and I still have the energy most days to apply myself to tasks, often some physical tasks too.Quote:
Originally Posted by miked
I implore anyone with arthritis, diabetes, or any number of carb related issues to eliminate carbs, try intermittent fasting and see what happens. For those full blown diabetics, please consult your doctor first before making the transition to very low or even NO carb diet. However, fasting is something you can do right away. Simply skip breakfast. For generations we were told breakfast was the most important meal of the day when in reality your body is programmed to conserve metabolic effort all day long until the evening when our ancestors were most likely to eat (read: gorge on gathered and hunted food). A couple years ago I tried keto and lost almost 30lbs but those pesky carbs came a calling and I gained it back and then some. Now, I physically shudder at the idea of breads and potatoes. Soda makes me sick. The sugar in my body has become so foreign that I feel immediately uneasy and sick if I take in more than a tiny bit of sugars. I almost always have a negative GI reaction to starches and sugars, and have for years, this is the best my GI has felt overall since discovery. That SAD diet is literally the thing that kills your productivity and makes you feel "run down", "tired from work", "definitely feel my age". It's a sham, your body remains high performance capable well into your 70s and even 80s. The 70-75 crowd running the Boston marathon are doing the 40km marathon in an average of four hours and fifteen minutes. You read that right, 26.2 miles in four hours and change over seventy years old. We all should be living a better life for ourselves and our families.
Guys i don't have a great deal of insight to offer. It was back to the doctor for me today.
We certainly live in interesting times. I don't think i've ever seen anything quite like this Covid-19 event. The closest thing would be the Cuban Missile Crisis back in the 60's but i was too young to understand what was going on.
Anyhoo ... it's stressful and it feels like the graves has come back out of remission. I figured i would see the doc and get some lab work done to see what's going on. I didn't fully comprehend ,but there's a thing in the blood that they can look for. It will be there if the disease is active.
I've got a couple of other autoimmune disorders as well and can say with high confidence that at least one of them is genetic in origin. It's a family trait.
TJ ... what you were saying about KBR & a precipitant seems possible. We were using an experimental filtration process designed by a well regarded college professor back in the day. In time ... i got the truth out of them. The system worked alright for a couple of weeks and then got very quirky. The local municipality has so much money invested that were too embarrassed to admit that it was a failure. They kept limping along with it for years and falsifying the monthly reports to our state regulatory authority. We used baking soda and aluminum sulfate as precipitants in our system. As far as i know ... they never caused any serious health problems but the water quality was very poor.
A different system with different water ..... a very real possibility.