I’ll start. Booked a hotel next weekend via a big blue hotel booing site. Get a phone call today from the accomodation provider asking for payment. Told them to take it via the booking site. They say no, and I will lose my reservation. Booking site says pay the accomodation direct. Go on the accomodation site and I can’t book for the days I wanted. WTF arrrrrgh.

  • Anomalocaris@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    5 days ago

    maybe something I should talk with a therapist (if I could afford one).

    it’s my life long dream to get an RV, my ex kicked me out after more than a decade (as soon I finish paying for her medical school and we moved to where she wanted to practice and refused to allow me to get a greencard). so I’m now stuck in a country in not allowed to be, where they send people like me to slave camps in third world dictatorships, I can’t works, I pay alimony, I’m struggling to make it to the end of the month, drowning in bills.

    And she just bought an RV.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      This won’t help you, but I hope others take note. You need a lawyer, we all need legal representation. It’s the difference between the rich and the poor, and being a victim in general.

      I have LegalShield for $26/mo. (I think? Close enough.) Don’t know if there are other legal insurance providers. I can pick up the phone anytime, leave a message with customer service, get a call back within an hour (maybe not on weekends?). Of course they’ll want some documentation as to what’s going on, unless it’s a simple, straight question. And you get a legal opinion just like that! They’ll write a letter or two as well as handling end-of-life docs. Probably a few other bits I don’t care about.

      If it’s more serious, like my divorce and child custody (two events), it’s 25% off. Do the math. 25% off several thousand covers quite a few months at $26.

      I got royally fucked because my mother picked some damned lawyer to press our inheritance suit. FUCKED out of 10s of thousands. Would kill to do it all over again with a LegalShield lawyer. Not that they’re top tier or anything, but they are answerable, unlike a private attorney who can just say, “Fuck you if you don’t like it. Here’s another invoice.” My divorce attorney was shit, my custody attorney mopped the floor with my ex and her freebie lawyer. 🤷🏻

      About to open two cases where my questions are, “Can they fucking do that?” and “Do I have any recourse here?” I don’t know the answers. IANAL, but I can get one on the phone.

      tl;dr: Be prepared for life to kick you around if you don’t know your rights.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          It’s insurance. They cover basic stuff like maybe a written letter, simple advice, stuff like that. Well worth it if you do the math. One answered question can save you hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollars.

          “But I don’t want to sue anyone!”

          Neither do I, and I’m not wealthy. But having a solid backing is worth the money. Have a lawyer on your side and you’ll quickly see why the rich are rich and we’re fucked.

          Not here to sell this shit. Y’all do you.