We topped ourselves last night with the 3rd Rationalist Week planning meeting lasting 3 hours 20 minutes which is 20 minutes longer than normal. That involved some quality debate and discussion as well as planning though. Things are finally coming together, we now have the plan pretty much set out, though to be on schedule we should have by now. I guess that means we are pretty much on schedule though that would seem weird as everything students ever do is done at the last minute.
I’ve already had a busy today – after grabbing breakfast with Norm I went down to Maplins to buy some electronic gear, went to the bank, came back to place some orders, went to speak to Kay in the union, went to the cash office and I’ve been down to media services to get the posters printed. Oh I also went down to the office to get my deliveries as well, the megaphone has arrived.
I maintain that some kind of deity is watching over the events and trying to smite us though. As I shall explain.
Ordering the PA system
Last Thursday night / Friday morning I started an electronic fund transfer to move the money I needed to buy the PA system onto my credit card. I takes 4 working days given it was after 4pm on Thursday which resulted in it going into my account today.
So after 5 days of waiting I logged on at midnight last night to see if it had been sorted. It took an hour or so but eventually went through and the money was on my account! This was after the payment had appeared in my account but my balance had not updated at which point I phoned Egg to find out what was going on and was assured my balance would update soon (which it did).
I went through the shopping cart and came across a notice saying they could only deliver to the card holder’s address. My Egg card is my one thing I have registered to my uni address! And I can’t get it delivered to uni as the office closes tomorrow which is when it would be delivered so there would be nobody to sign for it (even if I could get them to contact me, I would be at work) which is why I spoke to my parents and asked them to sign for it when I got it sent home.
This had screwed me over, I needed to get it sent home so I would get it in any decent amount of time. Plan B was to use my other credit card registered at home – but the credit limit on that one isn’t high enough for me to make the purchase.
Plan C, use my debit card, but I couldn’t do that as I didn’t have enough money in my overdraft. Why you may ask? Because I transfered the money over to my Egg card to pay for it. Plan D was to split the items, max out my HSBC credit card and put the rest on my debit card as I had enough in each account to do it so that if I balanced it right I would still get free shipping on both orders.
Except they don’t accept Maestro debit cards.
So Plan E I ordered the first half on my credit card last night, then this morning I went down to the bank, drew money out of my overdraft and paid it onto my Lloyds TSB debit card which is a Visa and I did it in person so that it would go on my account straight away (at 10am because unlike every over weekday, they open at 10am instead of 9am) and then went home and ordered the second half of my order using the money I had just put onto my Visa debit card.
Then finally today I came to move the money back from my credit card to my bank account that I no longer needed on my credit card and found no option to do it. Neither Egg nor HSBC’s online banking allow me to make transfers that way. Maybe they are not configured right or haven’t been setup to do that but I can do it the other way.
So now I’m left with a credit card with loads of money on and an overdraft that is almost maxed out with a massive credit card bill from my other credit card heading it’s way. Perfect.
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