James.UWE

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    Sorry, but you can not say that the Price is low because it does not include VAT - VAT (and or Import Duty) is your responsibility and not paying it on a new purchase is fraud - If you are VAT registered you 'may' be able to claim it back - but it's NOT OPTIONAL in the U.K

    Sounds like Gary may have been playing by his own rule book BUT it also sounds like a number of his clients are too.

    WARNING : Those on here in the U.K ought to be VERY careful what they have written here in that respect



    Delivery to Perris is great when you are going there to jump / a friend is, as it's saves a small fortune on international postage fees. :)

  4. There were a few threads on here, and UKS where people made complaints about KK, mostly about small transactions. Everyone shot them down and called bullshit on them though.

    I fell for it all, and bought a rig from him. Thank fuck I actually got mine though. I had agreed a price that was to include having my rig fully assembled and delivered to Perris, but after 'problems' it was not assembled when it all arrived at Perris, so I had to pay GBP100, which was never refunded to me as promised.

    I also sent him some cash (not a huge amount) for a 2nd hand pilot chute that never came, and got email after email of excuses and reasons why it never arrived. Promises of hoodies and a couple of pairs of gatorz etc. Obviously never came, and all got stuck by customs or something.

    In hindsight it seems ridiculous that so many people fell for his excuses, especially looking back at how obviously lame and repetitive they were. Myself included.

    I honestly can't see this happening elsewhere, must be a skydiver thing to place so much trust in people on the internet hey? I'm kicking myself for actually depositing £3.5k ish into a Royal Bank of Scotland account belonging to the girlfriend of a bloke in Australia. Sounds fucking dumb now doesn't it? At least I was lucky enough to be towards the bottom of the ponzi, as my rig was probably bought with the cash that should have paid for someone else's rig.

    All that said, I'm not convinced Gary did all this maliciously though, I think it was more through poor business practices, a lot of bullshitting and a huge amount of denial.

  7. Shit, what a fucking mess!

    I feel very lucky to have ordered/received a rig through KK before all this kicked off.

    Looks like he forgot basic business principles in order to get big quick by selling cheap, then kept taking orders to try and pay for previous orders etc etc till the credit ran out.

    I feel for the people involved in this!

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    Hmmm...from what I hear about the English healthcare system, seems these guys are taking lessons.

    Sorry about your problems. It's getting harder and harder to find a company that values it's reputation.



    English healthcare is very good; having experienced the NHS (myself/family) from A&E (or ER for you guys) up to ICU. Excellent.

    My experience of hospital treatment in the USA however, well that's another story! Awful (admittedly only one hospital and probably not indicative of the whole lot).

    While people bitch and moan about the NHS, it is a world class system, that provides care for all, not just those who can afford it.

    Anyway, sorry for the thread drift, I guess this will probably be deleted as it's not in SC.

  10. I'm doing a little road trip for my Birthday to Bruges for the day, then onto Antwerp for a night out before driving back to England.

    Can anyone reccomend some options for going out for the night (it'll be a thursday)? Any decent bars / night clubs you can reccomend?

    Cheers! :)

  14. I'd double check whether Columbus will cover you. When I was organising insurance for my old university's club trip to Perris, I emailed them for confirmation on a few things and was told that their definition of 'parachuting' was static line jumps only, and that they would not cover anything else.

    I used Adrenaline last year, and they where great when I had to claim.

  16. First balloon jump from Perris, I had to avoid a shit load of power lines, second one had a nice big field, and third one landed in a field next to the 215, a friend ended up landing in the middle of a residential street though, could have hurt if it wasn't a good stand up landing.

    Getting back can be a mission too, the balloon company only found me once of three times. I got hit on my some 50ish year old women who gave me a ride back to the DZ on the second one :D

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    ... or Germany. Europe isn't a country you know :P



    The picture is stored on a German site, but I wasn't sure if the actual police car was from Germany or Poland (or some other country) so I just went generic and said Europe. Besides with the EU ... isn't Europe all one big happy place where countries do not run deficits and everyone is ubber rich?

    LOL ... sorry :ph34r:


    :D


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    You could be a traffic cop in the UK. That's where they get the fastest and best-est cars!

    http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/police/dscd0047.jpg



    Or you could get one of these... B|

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    Thanks everyone for helping out. I've had 60 repsonses, which is great as it was a quick bit of informal research. I was told to aim for 25, so this is awesome.

    I wonder if the fact the the majority of people who completed it were skydivers (posted it on ukskydiver.co.uk too) made much difference?

    It's closed now so I can stay up half the night and try and write a proposal for a social marketing campaign. :)



    :)

  21. Thanks everyone for helping out. I've had 60 repsonses, which is great as it was a quick bit of informal research. I was told to aim for 25, so this is awesome.

    I wonder if the fact the the majority of people who completed it were skydivers (posted it on ukskydiver.co.uk too) made much difference?

    It's closed now so I can stay up half the night and try and write a proposal for a social marketing campiagn. :)

  22. Thanks for doing the survey. :)
    I agree, but by the time I realised, it would only allow me to make changes if I deleted all responces :(

    It's not too much of an issue, as I wanted to know if people had consciously decided to drive, knowing that they were probably over the limit.

    Just our of interest, what is the legal limit in the USA? It's 80mg of alcohol p/100ml of blood in the UK, considerably higher than most of Europe. I think this sends confusing messages as previous campaigns have encouraged people not to drink at all if driving, yet the legal limit probably allows most people to have a pint or two.

    My personal opinion is that it should be high enough to allow for traces from non-alcoholic drinks (mouthwash etc), but low enough to be able to say that drinking just one pint/bottle could put you over the limit, it may reduce drink related accidents. Sure people would do it anyway, but a lot of people think they're legal after two or three beers, when they may well not be. Anyway, I digress.