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Check out https://www.revolut.com/en-US/transfer-money-abroad-with-the-interbank-exchange-rateThere's a waiting list to join..
No personal experience, but i know people using them with no issues.
Im willing to pay for minyan in copenhagen on oct 23 between 1-5pm. Anyone interested in joining?I doubt at that time but iirc the shul does have some minyanim even during the week..
Depends. Each one is different.How do you know before you start..focal point doesn't say an estimated amount of time..
no lights no sirens
How long are these surveys?
Here's my opinions of the few that I've tried with links. Rated on a (lowest)1-10(highest) scale for the following categories:
A: Ease of access. Easy to see surveys/groups and answer the questions for them...
B: Incentives. On average, are you getting $40 or $200...
C: Amount of surveys/groups available to take part...
Apps
•Focus Point Global. EoA 8. Incentives 6. Amount available 8.
It appears that they are the one of the leaders in this sector and therefore have a nice app as well as tons of surveys. However being one of the leaders, it doesn't offer the highest pay, but still not bad.
Example https://ibb.co/PDhZVNP
•Mindswarms EoA 9. Incentives 2. Amount available 2.
The app is extremely clean and easy to use. However the studies are few and far between, and I have never received a follow-up on any of them. Perhaps this has to do with the fact that they require a short video of yourself when signing up. The incentives are pretty low overall.
Websites
• Schliesinger Group EoA 6. Incentives 8. Amount available 7.
This is by far the best over I've signed up to. The sign up process is a bit more daunting than the rest. You must send in a pic of your ID to prove you're not gaming the system with multiple accounts (now, where would anyone ever get that outlandish idea). The website on which you answer the initial questions to determine your eligibility for specific surveys is pretty dated but still does the job. As far as incentives go, the lowest I've ever been offered was $100 with the average being $150. Your receive emails with available surveys and if you qualify will receive a phone call following up relatively quickly to confirm your answers.
Example https://ibb.co/n3JM183
•20|20 Panel EoA 6. Incentives 5. Amount available ??
This seemed to be pretty good, but since completing my first study with them I've only received one more study offer.
Example https://ibb.co/nPHpfbW
• Fieldwork EoA 4. Incentives 4. Amount available 3.
This company only does in person, so I've never done one before.
Example https://ibb.co/8N8wXZf
Again, This is all just my personal opinion and experience.
Short update.Tried BBB?
Basically I got diddly squat from Amex. They assigned my case to some specialist in dispute resolution. She gathered all the evidence I had again and then took my story down again, then she did the same with the merchant. She then proceeded to set up some joint phone calls in which we all spoke, in turn, about what was going on and why I believed I should get a refund, and why they didn't etc. etc.
Anyway, on the call the person from the merchant agreed to give me $500 back. I was not LIVID; it was pennies compared to what I paid--but I maintained my composure on the call. Again, she agreed verbally, on a recording to give me $500 back. The Amex rep then told me to sit tight and let's see what would happen meanwhile, while she processed all of this and got some more people involved. It seemed as though the merchant started to budge so we might be able to finally get them to agree to give me my money back.
3 weeks later, when no refund or anything was processed, she called me to follow up and said it was odd and set up another call. This time the merchant rep told her that she DID NOT agree to $500, but she agreed to give UP TO $500 pending manager approval--AND the manager DID NOT approve. This was a complete and total lie from A to Z. The Amex rep called bullshit on her and told her "well listen I can go back and play the recording I know exactly what you said, don't try to deceive me."
The whole time throughout this process I kept pointing out how these people are DISHONEST but they know how to mask it very well and FINALLY the Amex rep saw what I was saying when they couldn't get out of their lie. I was thrilled and thought that wow I might actually get my money back now. The Amex rep was going to escalate this one level to see what they could do.
Fast forward to last week. The Amex rep calls me back and says, listen I know they are dishonest, and so we will credit you back the $500 as a good will gesture for being an Amex cardholder for over 20 years. This was a good will gesture on the part of Amex and the merchant would not be giving anything back. I was very confused and told her wait a minute, what about the whole rest of the amount, you can clearly see how this place was lying the whole time. Her answer was, we would like to give you more of a refund but unfortunately we cannot go against a merchant's refund policy and since she verbally committed to the $500 then that is what we can give you, all the rest I suggest you go to court. I tried hard to explain to my manager the situation but we are bound by the terms of the sale between you and the merchant.
So that's it. Meanwhile I approached two attorneys and told me that in order to litigate this, it would cost well in excess of $10K, so yeah thats not happening.
If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I went and left the place a bad yelp review and the merchant contacted me about it and was pretty mad and said you have no right to leave a negative review. I hung up in their face.
so simple? It isn't so clearcut IIRCMusic is a machlokes, the sharai tzion bring a shita that its fine..
https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-emyd4-ba0bba
The main issue is that the the 2 "opposing" viewpoints that he interviews are not at all asked about the same thing... So it's just 2 1-sided discussions on 2 completely separate people/subjects.I was planning on writing a bit of a preface but didn't have a chance...
Then it's interesting that there is one in the old Lakewood area...Iiuc it was built by a private person & reshus was given by r shneur (?) To build it so this fellow who was in a wheelchair could get to the yoshon where he had been davening for many many years...