Europe Travel

[nickbaer]

I had a nice e-mail visit with a member from Budapest.

I am wanting to travel Europe again this year. Money is tight, and the currency exchange rate is not the best, but it i worth a try.

Looking to correspond with GWW members from Schengen countries, as well as non-Schengen countries, since I can only stay for 90 days at a time,

Please e-mail so I can better keep track.

Thanks.

- Nick

[nickbaer]

I would like to go to Dublin for 3 weeks in May, if we have anyone from Dublin, with Center City lodging suggestions.

[nickbaer]

Also if anyone has Aer Lingus travel miles they cannot use. Or hotel reward points.

Thanks,

[nickbaer]

I've had a couple of nice responses from Schengen countries. I can only be in Schengen for 90 days at a time, so I am looking for friends from non-Schengen countries as well.

[RobertChandler]

You are so resourceful! I'd love to film in Prague and I'm trying to get it all figured out. Just finding models in a place I've never been is a big task!

[nickbaer]

One important reason why I may not make it to Dublin, without someone just sending me $2,000, is that having one big company, that used to sell $1,200/month net to me, of my DVDs, having structural problems, and drop down to $600/month net to me because they cut back on employee time and marketing, then not be able to pay me for 4 months, until Friday, meant that my schedule for upgrading my iPhone, iPad and MacMini got at least 2 months behind schedule.

So with wanting to fly out May 1, here it is May 5 and May 8 and May 11 that I am receiving and setting up each new machine, in kind of a crash course! Two of the three I ordered on-line, to get better deals, like the Educator discount with my ESL Certification, while the iPhone I got in the local Apple Store and had it working in store, a half-hour tops.

Because of a bit of a Billing snafu, Apple gave me $260 in discounts and coupons and delivery upgrades on my new $1,300 Mini! $260 and 5 days shipping upgrade really makes a difference, when I need $2K or more in order to spend a month in Dublin.

I got the iPad yesterday via UPS, right before leaving for NAB/CPUG event (see separate thread). Last Friday, I went to the Apple Store and got the new iPhone - and stayed for a Workshop on iCloud - which really doesn't have much for me as a filmmaker. Both machines almost set themselves up without me! The new way the App Store works, in remembering your App purchases, even the free ones, virtually enables you to just turn the new machine on, and go do something else for an hour.

Today I listed all three on CraigsList. Sold the iPad 3, 16GB +Cellular unlocked. $200, in 15 minutes, spent an hour training the Windows user how to use his first ever Apple product, and the cash is in the Bank! We sat in his car, he enabled a hotspot with his Samsung, and it worked!

I've had 5 inquiries about the Mini - although the new one doesn't arrive until Friday from HK. No nibbles on the iPhone 4 unlocked. if I don't sell it here in the desert, I can try elsewhere.

The only way I could have started this planning any earlier, is if I had gotten paid on time. And, if the company was still at $1200/month in sales, rather than $600 or $400, I would have had the $2K cash in had, and not moaning about it.

It is tough being a one-man shop, on the road, at 63! In 6 months, I'll be singing that Beetles song with Bec!

[monstahmikey]

You are so resourceful! I'd love to film in Prague and I'm trying to get it all figured out. Just finding models in a place I've never been is a big task!

Its not actually that hard in Prague. I have shot over there many times and all you need to do is find a good agent and they will find you the models you need. Everything there model wise is done through agents.

Hit me up if you want and I can put you in touch with a few.

[nickbaer]

It's so not easy!! It's checking out 2257 Statements, and looking for names. It's reading the fine print in the descriptions of videos on the 4=5 major VOD platforms. It's checking the signature in e-mail addresses on forum posts.

Now, if people would just come home from this week's "Summit", and check their e-mail or voice-mail!

[nickbaer]

Since it's my thread, you can PM me the list of agents, too.

[monstahmikey]

Since it's my thread, you can PM me the list of agents, too.

Maybe when you learn some manners and the word please

[nickbaer]

I got my new iPad, sold the existing one 24 hours later.

I got my new iPhone 5S, sold the unlocked iPhone 4 less than a week later. Bought it unlocked in Wales 2 1/2 years ago, and sold it to a friend of someone in a nearby country.

I pre-listed the Mac Mini, a few days before the new one arrives. Have a good list of eager buyers.

if this could have happened last month, I'd be a lot closer to making my May 1 goal. But, i have to be safe, and wait.

When even one cog in the gears is slow to pay, it slows down the whole show.

At least they paid, unlike the member here who bought e-Books from me, then called his credit card company and pretended he didn't know and did a charge back!!!

Talk about BAD MANNERS!

[monstahmikey]

At least they paid, unlike the member here who bought e-Books from me, then called his credit card company and pretended he didn't know and did a charge back!!!

Talk about BAD MANNERS!

Goodness me are you still harping on about that What a sad little man you are.

It was all resolved and I explained why but you DIDNT listen.

And having actually met you, manners are something you seriously LACK !!

As I suggested in a previous post, maybe a social skills course would be beneficial. If you want I can post some links.

Taa-Rah !

[nickbaer]

And having actually met you, manners are something you seriously LACK !!

1 - you have never met me.

You are sadly confused.


2 - your unending personal, obscenity-laden abuse, in multiple threads, is predatory, and telling.

[monstahmikey]

1 - you have never met me.

You are sadly confused.
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Yes I have, in Prague when you stayed at my friend Dusty's place.

You were extremely rude and walked straight past me and ignored me when he tried to introduce us, more interested in microwaving peanuts if I remember and oggling at my assistants arse.

[nickbaer]

Yes I have, in Prague when you stayed at my friend Dusty's place.

You were extremely rude and walked straight past me and ignored me when he tried to introduce us, more interested in microwaving peanuts if I remember and oggling at my assistants arse.

I didn't reply to this post when you originally made it, because the tone of the thread went from slanderous, to pitiful.

I didn't "stay" at your friend's Dusty's place, I rented a room in Sting Pictures' studio at market rental rates. Rent plus share of utility bills.

Rich and Rob and I had wonderful conversations about being in mutual aspects of the business for a very long time. We had dinner together. We went shopping for needed items. We discussed websites. We talked tech about Premiere and Sony cameras. We went to European Summit Prague. I got them free passes I woke someone (new) up at CCBill to pay attention to them. And both of us commiserated about the lack of performing sales channels we small players have access to.

I helped them a couple of times on their in-house productions, when asked. And only when asked. Like DVD and VOD videos, their in-production work was their Intellectual Property. It was never my place to stick my nose into any of their shoots - unless asked. Nor did they want to hang out while I shot with the 4 models that they referred to me for paid work, during their own production lull.

There were a couple of times that they did shoots for others. They told me in advance. They might have said once at the outset of our meeting, but didn't need to: That if they were shooting for, and/or with, another Client, I was expected to stay in my room. Again, the concept of Intellectual Property, the protocol of being a part of a shoot only if "asked", being a part of conversation, etc. because those were business deals between them and their Clients.

I remember one of those Clients smoked cigarettes in our otherwise non-smoking area, which was very disgusting. We had to open windows, yuck.

My rental agreement included my use of the kitchen (and bathroom!). If you were one of the Clients that they provided studio space for hours, and you were there during my dinner time schedule, then yes, I might have walked through the foyer to the kitchen and back. Did I introduce myself to "you"? No, that would have interfered with Sting's production agreements with their Client. I spoke to people when spoken to. Plus, I never assumed that any of their Clients spoke English, nor that they would have known of me.

Did you introduce yourself to "me"? Obviously not, since it is now SO important.

Your being there was your time and money. Not mine.