AnOther
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I think you need to explain a bit better what you've got and what you haven't, as Dave says there should have been no money to pay if the change of ownership was not successful, which apparently it wasn't, yet you say you were "hit with a penalty of over 300€" for what exactly ?Without knowing what that was for then it's going to be pretty hard to advise you.Thousands of people buy and register cars every day of the week without any problems whatsoever so there seems to be something more going on here than a simple missing cosignatory.
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Unfortunately you were not without fault for not knowing both signatures were necessary so you can't really lay it all at the sellers feet.You can certainly ask him to pay the fine (although it would help to know what it's for exactly) but don't be too surprised if you get an emphatic NON!You say you don't have the carte grise but you should have been given the old one which you keep until you complete the change of ownership at which time the Prefecture will give you the tear off portion at the bottom whilst you wait for the new carte grise to come in the post.If the car is still on an old style registration number (xxxx-AB-xx) they will keep the whole thing and instead give you piece of paper called an 'Immatriculation provisoire' (or something similar) which will have a new number on it with which you can new plates made up and once again the new care grise will arrive in the post in few days.
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Nothing untoward here, I suspect the Orange infrastructure is somewhat more robust than BA's !!! Very simple to eliminate WiFi problems by plugging in via ethernet [;-)]
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Been using DDGO for some time, StartPage is worth a look too. What you describe sounds like browser hijack BTW.
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Linux is a fine OS but it's for the geeks not the technically inept, no offence intended just a statement of fact!It's not without it's own issues though and being a fringe product (about 1% of OS market share) is infinitely harder to troubleshoot and fix.It's not helped by the fact that there are an infinite number of versions and iterations out there and although they are all based on the same core (well mostly anyway) that's like saying all cars are the same because they have a steering wheel!Linux versions are called 'distros' and this site illustrates the point. I confidently predict that your eyes will have glazed over after the first sentence in the first description.Installation is not an uncomplicated affair either, much more so if you wanted to use it along side Windows (dual boot). You must first download your chosen distro which comes as a compressed .ISO file which you then have to extract and burn to a DVD or create a bootable USB stick with and then make your machine boot from that.It's also something of a one way street i.e. if you decide it's not for you then it's not easy to get rid of and you could well be facing a hard drive wipe and total re-installation of Windows either from a recovery partition if you're lucky or another .ISO download which again you'll need to extract and burn to use.Some distros claim to be aimed at those looking to make the switch from Windows but in truth it's only skin deep and still a very steep learning curve.Seeking an alternative to Windows 10 (which I've sworn to never use) I've personally tried several of them but found them all deeply frustrating or lacking in many ways so am sticking to Windows 7 for as long as practicably possible, maybe by then the Linux community will have got their act together and realised that if they put their minds to it instead of making it like Liquorice Allsorts they came up with a single unified version which represented a real and viable alternative they could slay Microsoft and become the OS of first choice for the majority.One can but dream!EDIT: I nearly forgot, due to most current AMD and Intel CPU's being effectively locked to Windows 10 you may well have to perform some trickery to get Linux to install in the first place and may prove impossible if from an external USB DVD or memory stick.
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You're telling WB and Chancer to switch to Linux, get real !
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[quote user="Chris W"]Ok from the lack of answers to my question about remotely controlling the livebox from the UK I guess this is not possible[/quote]If you're going to cop an attitude then I'm out of here.I've already told you that it is but instead of asking Brits who just happen to live in France for such technical info I suggest you Google 'Livebox port forwarding', seems to be plenty of info on the subject including tutorials.
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Plenty of places to buy a Livebox, Darty for instance.
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Yes you can remotely administer it.A friend who lives in the UK has set up a remote CCTV surveillance system for his friends in the Dordogne who are often away.With the frequency of lighting storms in many areas of France unless you are there to unplug it for protection the €3/mth for the Livebox rental represents very cheap insurance !
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Not claiming it's the best device on the market but the Livebox can be switched to English (albeit clearly not translated by a native English speaker!) and can be configured for port forwarding.If you are using Orange as your provider then there is one distinct advantage to using a Livebox and that is if you needed to use the English speaking help line because that is all they know and therefore will be able to offer little help or no support for any other.If you're set on using something else I'm afraid you'll have to do your own research on what works best on marginal lines and you can be sure that everybody will have a different opinion on that!
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[quote user="Chancer"]Could you do me a favour and PM me the words that you use to blackmail ([:)]) the seller, I want to pass them on to her she speaks good English but I am very conscious that mine is quite poor now and I dont like to give her anything less than 100% perfect or she will get in bad habits.[/quote]I don't think it's a situation you can cover with a script or a proforma as each case will be different because ultimately as strong as the misgivings about GSP are it's only after waiting the sort of time that you would reasonably have expected an item to take to arrive by traditional methods that grounds for complaint actually arise.In the instance given that's how I played it and what I'd told the seller I would do but of course I still had to wait for the item to actually turn up before I could leave any feedback at all.To rub the salt in I received a veritable blizzard of emails from GSP which factually told me next to nothing as the tracking numbers they gave me did not specify the carriers so were effectively useless, they did repeatedly point out however that the item had been dispatched by 'International Priority Shipping', yeh right!For comparison BTW last Monday at 15:57 I ordered a 100m drum of satellite coax which arrived early on Wednesday afternoon, the £15.99 postage charge for that matched what I'd paid for the fag packet sized item which had taken 16 days so even ignoring the delays what's NOT to complain about with GSP!
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I realise that but it's also the whole point because leaving negative feedback on that basis will (or should) generate a live discourse between seller and eBay to get it rescinded and in the process hopefully highlight the deep customer dissatisfaction which led to it.If you can think of a better or more direct way of signalling that to eBay then pray tell!That said my seller, who before my negative had 100% positive feedback on nearly 1300 sales, thus far at least has done nothing about it so in this instance it would seem to have largely failed in it's intent.Curious that such a clause is actually written in the T&C's though, the cynic might conclude that it's there because they expect complaints [blink]
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I remember this thread and those who have looked will note that I was an early contributor but had you asked me the date of it's inception no way would I have guessed 2009 so thank you very much Chancer for bringing into such sharp focus that a whisker short of 9 years of my life has flashed by since.The point of this post however is to respond to your comments on eBay's Global Shipping Programme which is completely agree with.Not only is it a rip off which can double the cost of postage or more but it also adds delays to delivery times potentially turning what can and should be days into weeks and a recent purchase which I would normally expect to have taken 3-4 days actually took 16 !In that instance even with the £15.99 postage (would have been about £7 by Royal Mail International Special Delivery) the item was still the best buy so I purchased it anyway accepting that it would probably take a bit longer to arrive but I certainly hadn't reckoned on 16 days and even though when it did finally get here it was perfect I bitterly complained to the seller about the delay and actually gave him negative feedback for his use of the GSP so called 'service'. I had been in communication with him during the delay and had told him what I was going to do.My strategy now is first and foremost and whenever possible to avoid sellers using GSP altogether and on a couple of occasions I've even contacted sellers to tell them that but for the fact of GSP I would have bought from them but instead have bought elsewhere even if it's actually cost me more.Finally if I can't find what I want anywhere else, or the price makes the item irresistible, I contact the seller to ask if they if they will post it normally and if not I will still buy but leave them negative feedback and tell them so.It's only a small protest and on it's own insignificant but it's only by hitting sellers who choose to use GSP (and it is a choice) with lost sales or poor feedback that it stands any chance of being changed or improved. Actually these days I find myself using Amazon more and more as prices can be as good and delivery is always outstanding.
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May be poor memory but I don't recall having to attach anything, the reg number on it's own was good enough.Can't think what the carte grise could add to the process ?
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First things first.1. Did you buy it in France.2. Have you got the carte grise, crossed, signed, and dated by the previous owner.3. Have you got a certificate de cessions fully completed and also signed by the previous owner.4. Have you got a certificate non gage AKA situation administrative - HPI check in essence and not obligatory but sensible to demand, or you can check online yourself, preferably BEFORE buying !
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The basic problem is that iPad's are rubbish and a triumph of form over function, but you can only whisper it for fear of the Apple fanboys ganging up on you to protect their love child.Don't let popularity fool you, remember The Sun is the UK's most popular daily 'newspaper' !Don't throw it, flog it to some mug (plenty out there) and switch to an Android tablet, you will feel liberated [;-)]
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Time to reprise this classic methinks [;-)][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wtbQUaC9mE[/url]
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[quote user="CeeJay"]I informed the local Prefecture that the car was exported[/quote]That was your big mistake, the Cert de Cession was all you needed and in truth not even that because you knew for a fact where the car was going and that there was zero chance of it ending up back in France still on it's French plates so there was no necessity for you 'divorce' yourself from it on that score.That would only have left you needing to cancel the insurance and under the latest rules if you have held a policy for over one year then you can do that at any time and for any reason.At the very worst you could have given them a made up CdC citing a fictitious French buyer.I'm afraid you made this rod for your back yourself [:(]
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[quote user="idun"]Why the fuss, if figures are done honestly??? Don't get it.[/quote]Nor me, I can only think that some people enjoy the self induced stress of making something hard out of something which is so simple ?I might be more understandable if the forms actually asked for the rates you'd used or if you had to state them somewhere but of course they do no such thing.
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[quote user="Chancer"]I have all the motivation in the world to switch it off, plus there is the Hadopi doubt.[/quote]You don't seem to get it either.They are not and can not do any harm and because they have to use their own SFR A/C credentials to log into your WiFi what they do on it is completely and totally their responsibility and nothing to do with you at all, in effect its as if they were operating from their own homes so if HADOPI come knocking it will be on their doors not yours.
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As you like, I guess it's true that there are no cures for ignorance or stupidity [:P]
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x2Why anybody would think of it as anything but a plus is beyond me, what exactly are you afraid of ?It's just a slice off your bandwidth which is made available and it's completely secure, or as secure as any WiFi ever is shared or otherwise, so it's not as though said Joe/Josephine is going to be sogging up your bandwidth or rifling thorough your own PC's and other devices so in reality you're never going to even notice they are there.When out and about there have been numerous occasions when I've pulled up somewhere to log into a hotspot and been very glad of it.In any case since the majority of expats seem to choose to live in at least some sort of isolation the chances of casual passers wanting to hook into their WiFi are grossly diminished if not non existent in which case sharing can only be a win with no downside whatsoever.Regarding my earlier post, I've had it enabled ever since I became an Orange customer so I have had no need to revisit the setting however I understand that now it's enabled by default which is great and as it should be.IMO all ISP's and routers should have the facility and enabled by default too so everybody can use any WiFi at any time.
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Nothing wrong with Linux Lite but slick videos of it in action completely ignore the complexity of installing it in the first place which for you or me might be pretty straightforward but almost by definition will be grossly over stretching the abilities of the vast majority still using Vista so promoting it to that group is, IMO, poor advice verging on the reckless.
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I never bothered with the cle because it needs to be plugged into a laptop to do anything and when out and about in general I don't carry one of those with me, don't really know what the current deal is.If you have Orange elsewhere though then if you activate 'accès aux hotspots wifi d'Orange' andhotspot wifi d'Orange de la Livebox' then anywhere you find a WiFi signal called 'Orange' you will be able to log onto it and use it with your Orange credentials.To turn those on go into the Livebox and in My WiFi/Orange WiFi click 'Configure Orange WiFi then log into your Espace client when prompted.This link may or may not take you directly there: http://r.orange.fr/r/Omoncompteinternet_messervicesNext time book somewhere with WiFi [;-)]
Change of ownership.
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