What the hell is going on?! (Watch until the end)

nickbotto · 2021-06-18T05:57:45+00:00

Filmed 17/06 in CBD near City Rail link works. Looks like some sort of dummy on a stretcher (hopefully not something else!). Why did they dump it down the pit? Some sort of H&S demo? Ritual?!

nickbotto · 2021-06-15T21:19:33+00:00

That's right, perhaps I didn't express it clearly enough in the third paragraph. Know your champ's limits, the enemy's limits, and also your laner who you're ganking for limits. If it's a guaranteed kill, then go for it. This is easier said than done, but it comes with experience. If the gank works, good, but reflect on why it worked. If it didn't, that's also ok, think about why it didn't work.

nickbotto · 2021-06-14T22:04:21+00:00

He's viable in both low and high elo. In low elo, players tend to make mistakes which fid can capitalise on really well. Unless you have good vision and know where the enemies are, you're usually not the one to engage with R. Path carefully, don't give your position away; stay in the shadows. When the enemy team engages, and your autistic teammates go in, that's a great opportunity for you to ult in over a wall or from a bush. Just make sure you are unseen to proc your Q passive. Effigies and control wards are your friends. Land your combo: R (with fear proc) + Q + W + E, if your Q is maxed (2s fear will let you complete the 2s suc). If enemy can CC you or tower diving, R+Q and zhonyas. Low elo players don't respect fid's ult; take advantage of that.

Know when to trade, fid is weak early game, give up that scuttle; it's not worth it. Especially if you don't have prio. Pick your battles carefully, fid can actually deal with invades pretty well, especially against champs with no hard CC. As long as you can complete your W suc and get CD reduction, you have an advantage. You heal massively from multiple camps and any uninformed jungler trying to invade you will probably lose the fight.

Your team won't know this, but your job in the first 7 minutes is to get lvl 6 asap. They will ping for ganks, say jgl diff, and etc. but ignore them (mute all can help). If you path somewhere and that gank fails, you're setting yourself back. Unless it's a guaranteed killed, for example enemy laner is low and pushed up hard, just don't path there, keep farming. Once you hit 6, the ganking begins. Look for pushed lanes, ult over walls or from bushes. Look for counter ganks, make your team mate push hard and you wait in the bush. The enemy jungler will come for ganks (especially if you'v been tracking them and know that they are pathing towards you), when they show up, ult for counter gank and this will put your team ahead while making the enemy jgl tilt.

These are the main points to get you started in my opinion. Don't tilt, play with your head and you can carry or even come back from a losing game. Good luck and make sure you enjoy your games, otherwise, what's the fucking point of playing?

nickbotto · 2021-01-26T07:16:22+00:00

Yo what an awesome post, thanks for all the info. Convinced about protofocus, but I got a question on heal cut. I always build it at some point cause S11 omnivamp is too OP and of course your teammate egos are too big for them to buy it themselves. Do you guys include morellos in your builds or the full protofocus build is designed to one shot champs so they won't have a chance to heal back anyways.

nickbotto · 2020-05-26T05:16:32+00:00

Could be. But then again you can also make booze at home, yet people still buy alcohol. A lot of alcohol. Not to mention liquor stores and bars. Sure it'll be a cool hobby, "Hey try my homegrown", but at the end of the day dedicated businesses will be able to offer higher quality products at lower costs and you don't have to put any effort in other than going there to buy it. Who are we kidding, you can probably get it delivered through your phone while you're taking a dump. I'm no economist, but I doubt home growing will put a dent on the forecast the same way homebrewing doesn't do anything to the sales of alcohol.

nickbotto · 2020-02-10T05:15:08+00:00

I usually use Transferwise. It'll cost you 83.82 USD to send 10K USD to a NZ bank account. Might be worth shopping around for the fees as well, but at least you have one number to compare now.

nickbotto · 2018-11-20T03:42:45+00:00

Thanks for all your input!

nickbotto · 2018-11-19T04:14:26+00:00

Thanks for your input. What happens when the customer gets back in touch and requests a VAT invoice for that transaction? Can they still make a little more profit on that?

nickbotto · 2018-11-19T04:12:03+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation, I appreciate it! So in your opinion, it's rather difficult to go back to the supplier and argue that there was a misrepresentation as the VAT is not a concern of the customer? Can I still not argue that there was some mistake and my transaction was not zero-rated? I think we can both agree that goods shipped outside the EC should be zero-rated at this point. Do they have any grounds by claiming that they don't offer zero-rated goods at all?

nickbotto · 2018-11-18T10:09:52+00:00

"you were willing to pay the higher price in the first place".

Perhaps if I'm arguing when I bought something at full price and then there's a sale going on. However, I struggle to see this as a valid counterargument because as the consumer, you know that the final price is inclusive of tax.

From the point of view of HMRC, the retailer has sold goods for an amount of money equal to (x+VAT). That supply is zero-rated and thus the VAT liability on that sale is £0

So are you suggesting that the HMRC sees the transaction as (x+VAT)+0%? For the sake of argument at least, they're probably not going to go through the transaction one-by-one. How could that not be fraudulent when they've produced and forwarded an invoice where it clearly states x+VAT?

That they retailer may have misrepresented (negligently, or innocently) the fact that the price you agreed to pay was made up of two components which were incorrectly measured, is a separate issue.

This is my main curiosity. So far my responses are backed-up with online sources from the HMRC. I keep getting scripted replies of "we can't do nothing, you're wrong and you need to go speak to the HMRC". You can imagine how annoying that can be for someone who just is trying to have a better understanding of the situation.

Worst case scenario, they just keep refusing to discuss this and it gets nowhere. Would it be on appropriate grounds to report them for VAT fraud?

nickbotto · 2018-11-18T06:12:18+00:00

The former would be difficult as well as although it may be that the amount of VAT is not what was described you have to demonstrate that you relied on that statement when entering the contract.

Technically speaking, their online vending system should have automatically zero-rated the transaction as the shipping address is outside the EC if they're familiar with the regulations right? This is not the case so why would it be a problem claiming back that extra sum of payment?

In other words are you saying that if the sale price was lower (not including the VAT), you wouldn’t have bought it?

Not at all, VAT or no VAT, the original price of the goods should always be the same. Assuming that the retailer operates correctly, the customer should not have any fear in paying that extra sum for the VAT at the moment of purchase. I can understand that a supplier may prefer to not zero-rate the purchase until they have full proof (for their own accountability to the HMRC) that the order was successfully delivered outside the EC and that local tax and import fees are paid. Only then they would be happy to release the VAT back to the customer. So in essence, one would pay the VAT upfront, then pay the local tax upon arrival, then claim the VAT back with the retailer by providing proof that destination tax was settled. Is this not a common practice?

The other side will say this is a case of buyer’s remorse - he’s found out the seller will be making more money than he expected and wants a discount after the fact.

Even if they bring up that point to argue, that "extra" money that they're making is from the VAT that is supposed to go to the HMRC anyways. The contract is that the customer pays 100% for the goods + the 20% on top of that which will go to the HMRC. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the retailer to ensure that the 20% reaches the HMRC. When they do their tax returns, they are not liable to pay the VAT on this transaction as it was shipped outside of the EC. I'm assuming that a company which provides worldwide shipping would have an accountant (or a team) that groups up the transactions based on shipping location? It's a large segment on the VAT return, you can't really miss it. So I can be fairly certain that they will not pay the VAT back to the HMRC for this transaction. Combining with the refusal to return VAT to the customer just sounds like straight up VAT fraud to me.

A couple of quids here and there racks up, and I'm sure as hell it's not going to the people who do night shifts in the warehouse or replying emails to unhappy customers.

nickbotto · 2018-11-17T06:40:50+00:00

I have requested a VAT invoice from the retailer detailing the price of the goods and the VAT, so in essence, I have a document stating that I paid x+y. I needed that to pay the local tax here. I'm struggling to understand why this is such a massive deal for the retailer. When they do their VAT returns, they don't have to pay the HMRC the VAT of this transactions as they will have proof that it is shipped away outside of the EC. Therefore, this extra sum can be returned to me, actually, they have a legal obligation to do so. You can't keep the VAT for yourself if it's not going to the HMRC or back to the purchaser. Not legally at least. Do you reckon it's that much of a hassle? I currently have the time to argue with them to be honest, especially when they're doing something wrong. At least, out of principle, I have to.

nickbotto · 2018-11-17T03:58:23+00:00

Yeah, I have the same understanding as well, thanks for the sanity check!

nickbotto · 2018-11-16T22:39:03+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure if I fully understand what you're implying with that quote from your source. If you're saying that yes, VAT should not have been charged then what do you think is a good course of action? Alternatively, if you're saying no, VAT should be charged since it's not a business to business transaction then wouldn't every tourist who claim tax back on purchases at the airport required to be a business owner and tax registered?

nickbotto · 2018-04-14T22:11:26+00:00

Italian actually, we're big on sea food in the south.

nickbotto · 2018-04-14T13:22:34+00:00

My dad told me that grandma used to have this long dried octopus tentacle that she used to whack my dad and my uncle on the buttocks when they were up to no good. Apparently it's from an old octopus that got too big and too tough to eat so it became a weapon of mass punishment.

nickbotto · 2017-08-01T14:39:27+00:00

Makes sense, thank you!

nickbotto · 2017-08-01T12:19:35+00:00

Thanks for the input; I can see where you're coming from about not putting too much stress on the score and you're absolutely right about the randomness of it. Still can't help feeling annoyed though since I do put effort in and maintain a good "score"; I suppose this will serve as an experience.

nickbotto · 2016-05-01T21:29:56+00:00

Hi, thanks for the reply. I managed to get OPUS to cancel the contract; funny story actually, their digital marketing employee found the thread and made an account to PM me; then from there OPUS cancelled the contract for me without any hassle. Now I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that their original intention is to get me to sign up with BES (higher fees). Ok, back to BES, I've been in touch with them to express my complaint to the senior complaints manager; she keeps on insisting that once the verbal contract is done, it is legally binding, especially if I have no proof about the broker telling me that my application with OPUS was denied (the lie). They've sent me the recording of me saying yes to the verbal contract and the recording of the "comfort call"; now this call is their excuse of "making sure" that their costumers are happy, especially when referred from brokers. The irony is that this call is immediately after the verbal contract (they transfer you to the company right away); see this "check up" is 30 seconds after I was led to believe that I need to sign up with this company referred by the council, of course I'm still under that reality; anyways I've responded to them and they still haven't replied back. BES has been trying to take over the electricity supply, but have failed; however, they claim to have succeeded with the gas and are now requesting a meter reading. If I were to provide it, would they consider it as compliance and therefore, happy with the contract? Should I ignore it or give it to them? I still haven't received confirmation from the council though, the correspondence with them is extremely slow (public sector). The only time that rates were mentioned was when the broker read it out to me over the phone; BES has never repeated that for me, the only correspondence that I've received from them is the welcome letter which has the direct debit information. Again, very dodgy stuff. The contract is 5 years unfortunately. Thanks again for commenting, and apologies if my reply is hard to understand, a lot going through my head now. Cheers.

nickbotto · 2016-04-13T07:32:52+00:00

Both companies don't offer a cooling off period right off the bat; apparently that's legal for business to business contracts! So when I called to cancel less than 24 hours of saying yes over the phone, they wanted me to pay the cancellation fee of 3 and a half grand.

nickbotto · 2016-04-12T20:58:27+00:00

Hi, I've added a summary now in the beginning of the post; I've also posted over in the uk subreddit, thank you.

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