Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

Sorry about the outage.

It was a suprise to all of us. If we knew about the possiblity of trouble we would have let everyone know.

Hope it wasn't too inconvenient.

Too inconvenient?

I've been trying to stabilize my shakes with a heavy intake of Coca-cola laced with Pri-G at 4 times normal strength. Darn near out of Pri-G and the darn customs folks nicely hosed me with duties the last bottle I ordered in. Can't buy it here in Mexico North, amigos.

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BRITISH COLUMBIA
West Marine at:	2000 Island Highway North, Ste 120 Nanaimo, BC V9S 5W3 PHONE: (250) 758-8048 FAX: (250) 758-6428 Store Hours: Mon-Wed:  09:00-18:00 Thu-Fri:  09:00-19:00 Sat:  09:00-17:30 Sun:  09:00-17:00
West Marine at:	2210 Beacon Avenue Sydney, BC V8L1X1 PHONE: (250) 654-0045 FAX: (250) 654-0091 Store Hours: Mon-Sat:  08:30-18:00 Sun:  09:00-17:00
West Marine at:	1601 West 2nd Avenue Vancouver, BC V6J1H3 PHONE: 604-730-4093 FAX: (604) 730-8714 Store Hours: Mon-Thu:  09:00-18:00 Fri:  09:00-19:00 Sat:  09:00-18:00 Sun:  10:00-18:00
West Marine at:	2929 Douglas Street Victoria, BC V8T 4M8 PHONE: (250) 380-4097 FAX: (250) 380-3832 Store Hours: Mon-Wed:  08:30-18:00 Thu-Fri:  08:30-19:00 Sat:  08:30-18:00 Sun:  09:00-17:00

Don't know what is worse the duties or the exchange rate?

The Duties, of course!

Oh....you were talking money... 

OOPS, Ontario.

ONTARIO
West Marine at:	143 Lake Shore Blvd. East Toronto, ON M5A 1B7 PHONE: (416) 203-2884 FAX: (416) 203-2886
West Marine at:	900 King Street Midland, ON L4R 4L1 PHONE: (705) 526-2745 FAX: (705) 526-9379

Thanks Robmints.

I think I'd have to call one of the stores directly and see if they'd ship it to me. It appears the on-line store would ship it from the US, and I'd get hit with the brokers/customs fees again. (I think I was mistaken about it being duty: was likely brokerage that cost so much)

I'm OK now, I went on a 24hr drinking binge. 

It would have been nice to know about the downtime so we weren't scampering all around. I know we Mods wish we had the information in advance to provide everyone. Thanks for your patients!

Paula wrote:

Paula,

Me thinks it is time for you to make an appointment with your hairdresser for a deep penetrating anti-blonding treatment for your hair roots. Seems a few blonde ones have taken hold and grown into your brain. 

OK i thought i had gotton banned and i didnt know why Getting routed to a domains site wasnt like when i got sent to Disney

Highwind wrote:

Oh Windy One....I can whip your brain/butt (figured they were probably in the same approximate location so might as well include both ) any day....how about a game of brain wrestling.........oh wait......two different categories can't compete.... lightweight (hmmm...who could that be? ) versus heavyweight (My goldplated belt looks so nice on my mantle  ). 

Paula

®Paula wrote:

Paula, sweetheart®

Are you sure that isn't a gold plated mouthpiece you have sitting on the mantle? It would have to be the size of a wrestler's championship belt to accomodate your substantial muscle structure in that area of your anatomy.

Highwind.  

®copyright Buttlint Inc (your royalty cheque is in the mail ole buddy)

<<edited to korrect speling>>

Thanks to Marshall I have again found the site.

I assume everyone found the address by word of mouth.  Although searches found the site it would never connect. 

I also had to re enter my name and password since Firefox did not recognize the numeric address as Abbys. 

Is this something that will be corrected?  If it will stay this way I could forward the new address to the members who are in my email address book.

I have learned it is a good idea to keep the moderator addresses in case you run into trouble in the future.

TomP wrote:
Tom, yes please do forward it if you don't mind. I did to the ones in my address book and the only reason they were there was because they are people I have had e-mail with before and their name was auto-added. I don't know how people are suppose to find us again otherwise?

Thank you sir!


Matter of fact, I would appreciate it greatly if everyone would do the same.

Robmints----Thanks for giving me the info to find abby,s.   Appreciate all of you---May God bless you and keep you and your family---Will

WHEW ! I thought somebody didn't pay their bill. Glad it's back up. Cold turkey is no fun.

                                                                     Kevin

Yes, a big sorry.  It would have been nice to get a warning so that we could have been ready and it would not have been a big deal.

C

  

I'd like to say THANK YOU to Marshall for the e-mails he sent to let those of us he had addresses for know of the site's status, and also a BIG THANKS to Robmints for posting the temporary IP address for the site. It saved my last ounce or two of PRI-G for my little engines. Was really beginning to enjoy the stuff. It stabilized my shakes nicely.

Just wish Admin of whoever was responsible for the outage has been considerate enough of the members to have warned us or given us the temporary settings so we'd be able to log on.

Highwind wrote:
I agree Highwind...........I was down to my last Natural Lite and in no shape to drive for more!

Highwind wrote:

It was my take........after saying WTF...........that the site had been Hijacked.  Lots of that going on.

Ken

Vangellis wrote:

Isn't it amazing..........the site goes down and you want to get on to it more and more!?

Ken

Happy its back..............I was in withdrawl too! 

Thanks to Marty (Majorxlr8n) I found my way here. Without his email I would have never found it.

I only hope that all the others board members will somehow find this site.

I second a thanks too Marty....
If it wouldnt have been for his heads up.....I would still be running around the house  fixing things that havent been touched in years.

Boy's and girls, your friendly neighborhood moderator, robmints, is the one to thank. Turns out he is an internet wizard and found us the IP that worked. I don't know how, but as long as he's on our side I don't feel the need to know.

Marshall wrote:
Glad that mints uses his powers for good not evil............

Keep the rest of us from


Now that we're back on line, I guess I better clean up my mess............

PHEW!!! That other site looked UGLY!
I have also joined Lawnsite.com and altho there is lots of info over there, I do not like it one bit! Bunch of ragging babies that come down on us newbies like a ton of bricks! If you are not a pro in business for 30 years with 50k in lawn equipment, they do not want to know who you are!

Here, it has been a pleasure and seeing the site down was really upsetting! I feel much better now!

Marshall wrote:
Amazing what you will find looking for naked ladies.

Emmo, Great picture. A woman should take the empties away when she brings the full one.

Paula, Sherri, no offense, eh?

Damn Mo....
I had no idea that you lived in such luxury....
All of that and a beer can IRA.........Man, that's what I call financial planning.

buttlint wrote:

Hey Lint,

I always felt you were in the wrong business, you gotta take that show on the road. Daily manicures and no more greasy fingers.

Great to see were back up. 

I couldn't get on Friday, but was able to get on today with no additional data on my end. I didn't need a new address or anything, so apparently however you guys fixed,it, you fixed it good! As to the beer can collection shown above, there is a fair amount of money represented there at today's alluminum prices. Enough to at least buy a decent supply of full ones.