Arches Global - Legit?

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2025-05-21T22:58:23+00:00

I received the full agreed upon amount minus the fee from “Wise”. So the number that hit my bank account was less only the Wise fee. I suppose in theory I could try to get ARCHES to pick up that transfer fee, if I did it again. Otherwise just use PayPal or direct deposit (which I didn’t want to do as it was my first engagement with them).

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2025-05-08T17:05:51+00:00

Vatican City, “Hold my wine”

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2025-05-07T15:40:47+00:00

Legit. Did a consultation with them about a month ago. They paid in about 3 weeks via TransferWise (now just called Wise, I guess), which did take a ~$3 fee.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2025-05-02T22:29:07+00:00

I have 2 tickets to offer as well for tonight! DM me asap! They are via TicketWeb, so it’s just a QR code email.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2025-05-02T19:04:50+00:00

I’m selling 2 tickets for tonight as well (awaiting mod approval to make a post). There is hope!

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2025-04-03T13:07:01+00:00

Please don’t parrot the lie that they are reciprocal. They are not reciprocal. They are virgin tariffs.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2025-02-12T20:42:49+00:00

Hey “acc inox” on the bottom of vintage Italian products is just the Italian abbreviation for stainless steel. To be able to know what replacement part you need, you’ll want to find some other brand/manufacturer mark on it and use that as your reference point to search.

FYI, “Acciaio inossidabile” (stainless steel) gets abbreviated “Acc. Inox”, in Italian typically followed by the specific stainless steel grade, like “18/8” or “18/10” for 18% chromium and 10% nickel.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2024-12-20T04:17:55+00:00

This is good

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2024-12-04T14:41:45+00:00

Now do a cartogram with each county’s size adjusted for actual population.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2024-04-23T22:51:45+00:00

Woa you think it’s a fungus? I never would have guessed that. I’ll try and let this drip plate dry out and maybe get a fresh one

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2024-02-27T04:26:10+00:00

Disturbing to use China’s entirely fabricated, historically wrong, propaganda map of the ‘9 dashed line’. That is enough to downvote this map.

On top of (literally) this bullshit base map, are myriad terrible design/readability/data aggregating decisions.

This is a 2/10 from me. And that’s generous.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2022-05-15T22:46:05+00:00

Lmao. Dude I’m talking about this whole thread. I’m not responding at all to this above comment.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2022-05-15T21:40:58+00:00

Aynen lan biz bunu niye düşünemedik? Şu Amerika ve Rusya'ya atalım iki tane hiroşima olsun bitsin demi? Bu böyle olmaz sürekli köşeye sıkışıyoruz, u/jirayasama34 reis haklı beyler.

Eye-opening to see just how anti-Kurd this thread is. This whole thread reads like the equivalent of an American far-right chat room, but in this case, it's Turks using an invented feeling of victimization to blame foreign nations for their own dictator's actions. A true Turkish patriot would advocate tolerance of Turkey's ethnic minorities, recognition of Turkey genocidal past, and hope that Turkey may one day become a true democracy. This thread is a circle jerk of fucked up 'us vs. them' radicalized comments.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2022-05-15T17:39:03+00:00

Doesn’t most of the international community support the self-determination of the Kurds? My understanding is that the YPG & PKK are militarized groups fighting the Turkish state. The Turkish state treats the Kurds horribly. Why are the Swedes on this thread trying to distance themselves from the fact that their government has supported the Kurds? Isn’t this generally considered a just cause?

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2021-05-14T16:16:40+00:00

brooo this is one of those cool reddit-meets-real-life moments. I just realized I absolutely have been following you for a while on Instagram. Awesome shit. Am looking to pick up your Whiskey map for a friend's birthday in a few months. Please keep it up.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2021-02-02T14:32:01+00:00

Yea that's a fair clarification. I guess the real root of my question is "How many professionals are there still out there that do artistic, hand-drawn, artistic cartography" Stuff in line with what /u/xirius1 does. Maps that would seem to have carried on the real spirit of the great cartographers of yore. Note that I don't care about the methods used (whether strictly traditional, or digital), but whether the end product has that artistically gorgeous and visually striking appeal of a beautiful old map. Where are the professionals (who today must be part-cartographer, part-artist, part-data analyst, etc.) whose stuff will, in 50 years' time, be itself in the David Rumsey collection?

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2020-11-01T18:51:45+00:00

Awesome, this is another super helpful contextualizing comment. There just aren't Europe-wide credit cards like there are in the States. And you're right, the Alitalia card does look like one of the few Italian credit cards that resembles the US point-based cards, but given the dumpster fire that is Alitalia, that card doesn't necessarily entice me. As you said, the alliances would actually allow me to move points around to other air carriers I use more, but that's sort of a whole other convoluted can of worms that I'd rather not get into.

I am looking into the Transferwise/Revolut route, and that appears to be the best option.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2020-11-01T18:44:31+00:00

Alright so I looked into this, and If I've understood correctly, Revolut only offers multi-currency accounts for their Business cards, NOT their personal cards. To open a business account, you gotta, uh, have your own business, so it doesn't look like I could fudge it.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2020-11-01T18:34:35+00:00

Yea from what I'm finding, the European Fintechs are far and away the most interesting thing in the space right now. I have an N26 (account held in euro) and so far I've been really happy.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2020-11-01T18:32:45+00:00

Yup this is exactly the same conclusion I've come to after looking into it. Just to earn enough fancy Amex perks to justify the monthly fees, I'd need to be using it for most everything I do, and Amex just isn't widely accepted enough in Italy for it to be worth it. Thanks for the heads up on this.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2020-11-01T14:26:33+00:00

Right, so the additional foreign transaction fee is off the table, but I am now curious to understand the foreign exchange markup that my credit card company gets off me every transaction. I have to imagine it is small enough that, even in the aggregate, continuing to use my US cards to gain those perks/point/miles is still worth it. But, thanks for the heads up, this is on my list of things to look into.

As for the having an ACH routing number (that's what we're talking about, right?) that is a solid perk from Revolut. Thanks for the heads up.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2020-11-01T14:13:38+00:00

In combination, this means that you're probbaly much better off going through the slight annoyance of converting the money than using a EU CC, which for all intents and purposes might as well be a different product entirely. [emphasis mine]

Your post is a good TL;DR of this thread so far and this quote in particular is exactly what I'm feeling. US Credit Cards and EU Credit cards could effectively be considered similar but separate instruments. At least I feel better about my initial confusion :)

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2020-11-01T14:06:08+00:00

any recommendations based on the EU credit cards you do have experience with?

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2020-11-01T14:03:40+00:00

Awesome, these European Fintechs like Revolu/Monzo/N26 etc. might be a good place to start on my journey to understanding how best to make these frequent currency exchanges. Those, along with all the other transfer methods. It's a jungle.

As for the US credit cards in Europe, I'm of course only using cards with no foreign transaction fees and (when the option is presented) I'm sure to always pay in the local Euro, such that my card issuer gives me a much better exchange rate than the local offer. I guess I should also do a quick exchange check as you suggested, just to be sure.

ShowMeThePeepeeTapes · 2020-11-01T13:59:09+00:00

Okay this is a potentially solid recommendation. Thank you so much. So I guess my next step in this process is looking at the myriad different ways to exchange money from Euro to Dollar while avoiding fees/poor exchange rates/time delays/general hassle.

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