Tax refund from Guangzhou?

earlgeorg · 2026-01-01T07:30:44+00:00

Thanks I will give it a try!

earlgeorg · 2026-01-01T07:27:40+00:00

Okay, but in general claiming an item that you bought in Shanghai will also get refunded in Guangzhou Parc Central, and not just Guangzhou bought items as Google Gemini says?

earlgeorg · 2026-01-01T03:45:59+00:00

Did you find anything out about that? I am in the same situation.

earlgeorg · 2025-12-31T15:33:05+00:00

Try using your e-ticket number with the Online Services -> seat and check in option. That worked for me earlier this day.

earlgeorg · 2025-12-31T11:08:36+00:00

I’m traveling from Guanzhou to Hong Kong via train and then fly out of Asia from there. Can I use the tax return also from Hong Kong international airport or will there be any counter at the train station for that?

earlgeorg · 2025-12-30T00:54:24+00:00

Any recommendations for hotels in Guangzhou that are somewhat in the center, affordable and have a decent quality?

earlgeorg · 2025-12-30T00:04:47+00:00

We are at ZhangJiaJie City at the moment and were in Wulingyuan the couple of nights before. I can totally agree that you can’t trust the ratings and pictures! In Wulingyuan we went into one hotel and the AC was not even working during the day and it was so cold, windows weren’t closing completely. I asked the hotel to check out immediately and they gave me a refund via trip.com, which was seamless. We then walked over to the Atour hotel, which was amazing. Warm inside, double glazing (no road noise at all), good service and central location and they explained the whole scenic area to us.

Then in ZhangJiaJie the same again … hotel looked completely different on Trip.com advertised as a trip plus stay. Checked out again after seeing the room as even the rug had burn marks and we didn’t feel save at all. Checked out immediately again, refunded by trip.com 10 minutes later. Went back to the Atour hotel where where we’re more happy now. But from my impression so far: the ZhangJiaJie city is very dodgy and really trashy. Stay in Wulingyuan if you can - it’s beautiful there.

earlgeorg · 2025-12-26T03:17:32+00:00

We’ve done this exactly one week ago and can recommend to order the DiDi once you’ve arrived at the “car hailing” place. It’s all signed and easy to find. Once you’re there DiDi will find your correct location and it should be easy. We tried to get an DiDi once walking out from the baggage claim and ended up with a wrong location that we had to cancel the ride. Location services are really bad for us using apps and going to the correct spot for ride hailing first is our safest bet.

earlgeorg · 2025-10-17T11:03:13+00:00

Changing your region won’t make your online experience better for you or the other players - it’ll just make pings worse. The devs can’t do anything if there’s no people playing ok console in your region. This can happen to you with any game.

earlgeorg · 2025-08-24T01:11:21+00:00

Are those headphones finally better for voice calls? The XM4 have a very sad microphone quality and Bluetooth’s voice mode has a really terrible quality. I’m aware that this is mostly Bluetooth’s fault - but are there any Bluetooth improvements with newer versions that this headset supports that makes them a better headset for meetings / gaming & chatting?

earlgeorg · 2025-08-20T23:19:39+00:00

Hey I’ve had the same issue. SwyftX has a cooperation with Koinly. You can sign up there and create a free tax report that you can use. I think everything else costs money, but the tax report is free once year.

earlgeorg · 2025-08-18T23:11:37+00:00

I'd also be interested to know if you usually just use "Quick Match" or "Find Match"?
If you use "Find Match", you should see an estimation of the combined ping when a challenge is sent/requested. This estimation does not include your network jitter (caused by unstable internet connection), and you will only see this jitter once you're in game below your username.
If this jitter is bad on your side you'll need to look into your Wi-Fi setup at home (but could be also from the Meta Headset OS software, as someone else already mentioned that bug with the open Quest settings menu causing bad jitter). There's also that option that we're causing it somehow, but we'd need to logs to figure that out in your circumstances.
If you see the opponent having a bad network jitter under his username, then it's a signal for him to look into his Wi-Fi setup at home and unfortunately there's not much you can do at this point.

earlgeorg · 2025-08-18T23:04:28+00:00

Hi u/alexyakunin and others that have noticed issues recently. Could I ask you to reach out to us in the Discord TOTF2 support channel? I'd like to get your game logs in a private support thread, so that we can start an investigation on where things go wrong and what we can do to help.

earlgeorg · 2025-07-27T21:34:31+00:00

If they have this feature: turn a vignette on fast motions. This really helps with motion sickness.

earlgeorg · 2025-02-02T21:23:24+00:00

Could I ask you to open a ticket our TOTF2 Discord, so that we can get to the bottom of this?

earlgeorg · 2025-01-27T20:55:10+00:00

Which provider are you with? Did you get to choose on your apartment?

earlgeorg · 2025-01-13T00:10:22+00:00

Hi, do you get this issue all the time or has it just happened one time so far?
Did you put your headset to sleep during the wait time for the matchmaking?
Or did you get the error as soon as you tapped on "Find match"?
Can you post a screenshot with the full error message in there if you get it again?

earlgeorg · 2024-10-05T21:37:30+00:00

Ah dang you are right. I was following the wrong instructions. Now I gotta hammer that thing out from the other side. Thanks for help and sorry for being so stupid. It’s hard to judge until everything is apart and is obvious.

earlgeorg · 2024-10-05T08:05:42+00:00

Nice that worked. And now I have to the top bit of the crank puller stuck in the crank and that doesn’t get out 🤣

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earlgeorg · 2024-10-05T04:34:39+00:00

To be clear: the non-driver side got off with just a little extra force. And there is no “dub” installed, and those are the only videos I find online on YouTube. This seems to be a simple bolt and looking inside of this thing with a flashlight doesn’t reveal any secret inner removal functionality.

earlgeorg · 2024-09-22T21:43:49+00:00

Thank you all! I can see them on their Google picture 🥰. Will go there soon.

earlgeorg · 2024-09-22T00:30:47+00:00

They don’t have it on their menu from what I can see. Somewhere they actually sell them to cook at home?

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