Posted by J. Marsh First off, Austin (my son) is 19 months old now! Can you belive it... 19... already! I moved... again lol, this time for a much better improvement in life. About 2 months ago, I moved to Kingston PA from Ludington MI where I was the last time you heard from me. I moved here because the economy in MI is horrible right now, almost impossible to get work anywhere in the state. I am now working as a TSS (Technical Support Specialist) for Network Solutions (NSI.com).. I know you gotta know who they are. Started there about a week ago, and it's been a great transition. I'm making literally twice what I was making per hour in MI!, plus the offer full health benefits 1 day, no waiting period. I was actually quite supprised once I'd been there a few days at how hard they strive for "perfect" customer service... really quite a great company. The house that I'm renting is almost 4 times the size of the house I had in MI! It's huge! It's running me $150.00 more a month in rent, but has a total of 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and is 5,000 square feet!... so I figured it was a good deal with all the kids we have running around here (5 total including the 4 kids of my girlfriends) Speaking of her, we're coming up on our 4 year dating aniversary within the next few months... guess I better marry this gal pretty soon lol. Crash! Subject Change.... Think there is any chance this whole ordeal might get overturned like the past few efforts the Feds/State Govs have made at shutting down the online tobacco industry? I've seen that a lot of online retailers have already closed their doors, and the ones that haven't are only accepting mailed in checks/money orders, or check-by-phone. How is eSmokes.com still able to do Credit Card purchases? (Or are they?.. I haven't placed an order recently) Anyways, I hate to see the happening. The online tobacco industry is pretty much made up of a lot of good working people (such as yourself, and previously me), and there's a lot of folks loosing their jobs because of this. All so the Govs can put a little more cash in there pockets, rather than letting the cash go where it belongs... the consumers pockets. Also... I no longer own the "ABCigs.com" domain... so I can't retrieve any email sent to that domain. Onix-Systems in Germany (A web development company) was nice enought to destroy my website for me, and after months of trying to correct what they screwed up, I finally said "hell with it" and let it go... so ABCigs.com is no more (at least as we knew it.. now it's owned by someone else) I do still own "ProCigarettes.com" and "CigaretteService.com" if you know of anyone that would want to buy them... let me know! :-) (don't really have a use for them now) Well.. I hope you're holding up, and also hope that life is treating you good despite the current govs efforts. Hope to hear from you soon! John Marsh
on May 11, 2005, 11:35 pm
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Hey Eddie, long time no hear bud.. (probably cause all the contact info for me you have is dated... lol) Wanted to give you a "Life Update" on how things are going now...
What is going on in the Cig industry?!? I've been somewhat keeping track of what the credit card companies and Feds/State Govs are pulling. (Go figure, I've been out of that industry for what? 4 years now... and still checking up on it? lol)They just can't leave a good thing alone (unless they are the ones making money on it of course) Can you fill me in a little on how this is effecting You particularly and eSmokes.com as a business?
BTW: New contact info...
Email: JDM570 at Yahoo dot Com
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