Early this morning I have bought the Nomads Notes program by EFT from Motorhoming Lifestyle site, and up till now have not heard boo from them for the download link to download the program. Stupid thing about it is there isn't a phone number that you can ring to find out why it's taking so long. The only way you can contact them is by online mail, and have sent two away already. I can't wait to write a testimonial on their business practices,gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr%^%^%^%%$#@#!!!!!
Ma said
05:51 PM Dec 11, 2009
when we got ours it came by ordinary post.
joebee said
06:53 PM Dec 11, 2009
I took the download option and paid for it online through my credit union using EFT, I did get a reply finally and they said when they check their bank account tomorrow they will post the download link, I told them the money should have gone straight into their account. They said I could pay bt PayPal or Credit card, I said no way as i don't trust PayPal and I don't have a credit card, only a debit card.Suppose I will wait till tomorrow then. I tried other programs like the Microsoft Works one that someone suggested but it wasn't good as the Nomads Notes.
jimricho said
09:07 PM Dec 11, 2009
I purchased Nomads Notes earlier in the year and had all sorts of hassles getting it to run properly. When I did I found it to be very amateurishly programmed, particularly in its lack of adequate error trapping. It was most unintuitive to use. After numerous emails I eventually claimed my money back and gladly got rid of it off my computer. I also had problems with the initial download.
They did however respond to my emails and assured me they would honour a refund if not satisfied.
By the way, re the debit card, if it is a Visa or Mastercard you can use it the same as a credit card the only difference being that the charge debits straight through to your bank account.
-- Edited by jimricho on Friday 11th of December 2009 08:09:38 PM
Disco Duck said
09:10 PM Dec 11, 2009
joebee..................a little patience is what I think is required. If you have done a bank transfer then you have to wait till it goes through. Sucks ......I know........but that is how it is!!
Paypal and credit card payment are virtually immediate and this is what the site offered.
Bank transfers involves the banks and I am sincerely hoping you know how they work!
Don't blame the download site......they are not going to release the product (and rightly so) until they have seen their money.
Unfortunately......you didn't accept the options that were offered to you by the site......paypal etc. so you have to wait......!!
In a couple of days...............or three or four.......you will have it!! The sun will still rise :)
I can promise you, the Nomads Notes site, will not stuff you around.
Disco Duck said
09:12 PM Dec 11, 2009
What do you use now then Jimricho?? Have you found an alternative??
jimricho said
09:25 PM Dec 11, 2009
Disco Duck wrote:
What do you use now then Jimricho?? Have you found an alternative??
How's that for high tech!
I do transfer the fuel info into an excel spreadsheet
Jim
DeBe said
09:31 PM Dec 11, 2009
Hi Jim I think I will stick with the system in the picture I find its easier to edit !!!!!
tonyd said
09:59 PM Dec 11, 2009
Oddly enough, I was about to post a link to Nomadsnotes, which I came across last night while surfing the net. Don't think I'll bother, now! Lot to be said for a pad and a pen. Never been known to crash, lose a file or drop out. Thanks for the heads up. Cheers, Tony
Disco Duck said
10:21 PM Dec 11, 2009
Says it all to me Mate..........Onya!!!
Hello TonyD................long time no hear???
-- Edited by Disco Duck on Friday 11th of December 2009 09:22:27 PM
Disco Duck said
10:27 PM Dec 11, 2009
Cheap Biro............ Jimricho......!!
You could at least have borrowed a nice looking one for the photo??
*Fail*
brickies said
11:48 PM Dec 11, 2009
Why do you need to do all that stuff start enjoying the moment
jimricho said
05:55 AM Dec 12, 2009
Disco Duck wrote:
Cheap Biro............ Jimricho......!!
You could at least have borrowed a nice looking one for the photo??
*Fail*
I can't find anyone silly enough to "lend" me a good Biro (or a good anything for that matter)
The trouble with people who lend you things is they have the hide to want them returned
PS: It's not just the Biro.....I might have to dip into my playlunch money and buy a new notebook!
-- Edited by jimricho on Saturday 12th of December 2009 05:10:44 AM
jimricho said
06:00 AM Dec 12, 2009
brickies wrote:
Why do you need to do all that stuff start enjoying the moment
Mate! you gotta have toys! Especially toys that frustrate the livin' sh1t out of you!
dave06 said
10:27 AM Dec 12, 2009
I'm afraid I'm a huge "toy lover" if it's shiny and new and beeps or twitters then I gotta have it, the more frustrating the better
however in this field I am, sadly lacking, i have not got "nomad notes" I am in the same old leaky boat as Jimricho
I have a battered old log book, ( a left over from my semi days) this I keep up to date with all travels, fuel costs, breakages, vehicle expenses, mpg and campsites
it looks a bit better nick than jimricho's simply because I stick it back in the mapocket neatly after all use
I am currently up to edition 5
I could not do a trip then spend the next hour in front of the screen placing all entrys, much rather sit down and sort out the piccys and have a beer with the friends
brickies said
12:41 PM Dec 12, 2009
Dave i think thats whats it all about i kept those special times in my head
Disco Duck said
02:49 PM Dec 12, 2009
I used to keep things in my head...............used it as a filing cabinet!!
Two bottles of wine and the cabinet is cleaned out!! .......... Never fills up??
Good system or what??
dave06 said
03:22 PM Dec 12, 2009
yep the trouble is with keeping things in the head is that after a whle they run into each other, I sit up here in my glass castle and all I do is think
I try to recollect our travels and I honestly cant remember the name of the chopper company that took me fly fishing over in Tassie, I cant remember the name of the chalet that we stayed in over on the south island up in the mountains of new zealand or the houseboat company that we took at echuca
it just runs together, I see a photo but cant remember where the hell it was taken or when
without my photos with tags and my log I cant remember being anywhere, bloody medication is taking half my life away!
JRH said
03:34 PM Dec 12, 2009
dave06 wrote:
yep the trouble is with keeping things in the head is that after a whle they run into each other, I sit up here in my glass castle and all I do is think
I try to recollect our travels and I honestly cant remember the name of the chopper company that took me fly fishing over in Tassie, I cant remember the name of the chalet that we stayed in over on the south island up in the mountains of new zealand or the houseboat company that we took at echuca
it just runs together, I see a photo but cant remember where the hell it was taken or when
without my photos with tags and my log I cant remember being anywhere, bloody medication is taking half my life away!
Dav0 whatever you do don't tell your quack about the meds, you what he is like, him and his mate Ibbo will have you on the operating table before you know it. LOL
Disco Duck said
01:53 AM Dec 13, 2009
Onya JRH...............trust you to let on!!
Ibbo and I were working around that very quietly LOL
I have to say.......we are GOOD ........No.........VERY GOOD but I don't know if we are good enough to help DaveO??? That is one sad case!!
ibbo said
07:03 AM Dec 13, 2009
Daveo would be our only patient who brought his own tools with him.Cheers.Ibbo.
Basil Faulty said
10:25 AM Dec 13, 2009
I use my Palm Pilot, it has an applicastion called "Fuel Log" and it does all sorts of wondrous calculations and provides a graph and all sorts of stuff...I just have to remeber to enter the details from my fuel reciepts.....
Delta18 said
10:34 AM Dec 13, 2009
jimricho wrote:
What is that white stick on the firelighter for?
Cruising Granny said
01:09 PM Dec 13, 2009
Harsh Delta! Very harsh!
I use a diary and also have an A4 exercise book and a shorthand pad to write my 'experiences'. From there they might find their way onto this gadget for my book on travel tales still a work in progress. (Does anyone know how to get an agent to get published?)
I started recording all my expenses until I had a handle on what fuel consumption was, and I don't fuss so much now.
Basil Faulty said
01:41 PM Dec 13, 2009
Cruising Granny wrote:
Does anyone know how to get an agent to get published
Granny you need to create a scandal and Max whatshisname will aproach you. As I said go on the Cougars cruise with a grandson as your escort (saves the cost of a male escort) be seen blind drunk together, make loud noises about what a celebrity you are and how you like your escorts young etc and presto within no time you will have created a personna suitable of an agent to manage it...
Disco Duck said
02:57 PM Dec 13, 2009
Basil......I was going to suggest Granny gate crash a teen party and dress like that kid from Melbourne......Corey.......???
JRH said
03:05 PM Dec 13, 2009
Disco Duck wrote:
Onya JRH...............trust you to let on!!
Ibbo and I were working around that very quietly LOL
I have to say.......we are GOOD ........No.........VERY GOOD but I don't know if we are good enough to help DaveO??? That is one sad case!!
Ducky, I am certain with the combined experience of yourself and Ibbo you will manage the task admirably, and I don't mean you can drown the bugger. :):):)
wendyv said
03:57 PM Dec 13, 2009
High tech is not always the best way!
Have always kept notes on our trips in diary format. Now have lots of filled notebooks that I am (slowly) transcribing on Word format, illustrated with photos - I scan these (pre-digital camera) film pics and insert them into the document. When travelling, I can usually manage to write some words in the current notebook, once or twice a day, whereas I don't always fire up the laptop - and in some places couldn't if I wanted to.
Keep a small notebook in the vehicle and record details of each fuel purchase, vehicle expenditure etc in that. When convenient, the Driver transfers to Excel spreadsheet. Thus, I can tell you that, in 1999, we paid 99.9cpl for diesel at the Curtin Springs Roadhouse, and considered that exorbitant!
Do the same for places we stay - separate notebook. At that same time, the $26 a night we paid at Ayers Rock Resort/Yulara, was the most we had ever paid for a caravan park site. How times have changed.
Basil Faulty said
04:56 PM Dec 13, 2009
Disco Duck wrote:
Basil......I was going to suggest Granny gate crash a teen party and dress like that kid from Melbourne......Corey.......???
Corey yes what a drop kick, some mothers do have em.... But there in lies Grannys solution simply organise a party, trash the venue, surrepticiously call the media and hey presto Max whatshisface will be offering her squillions....
Disco Duck said
05:43 PM Dec 13, 2009
And then................she will be able to afford Ibbo's and my fee for the finest operation.
OH YES!!! The SKULL and CROSSED SWORDS and THE DUCK!!! What a team!!
Don't know about "Fly Navy".........but fly we will!!
They did however respond to my emails and assured me they would honour a refund if not satisfied.
By the way, re the debit card, if it is a Visa or Mastercard you can use it the same as a credit card the only difference being that the charge debits straight through to your bank account.
-- Edited by jimricho on Friday 11th of December 2009 08:09:38 PM
How's that for high tech!
I do transfer the fuel info into an excel spreadsheet
Jim
Don't think I'll bother, now!
Lot to be said for a pad and a pen. Never been known to crash, lose a file or drop out. Thanks for the heads up.
Cheers, Tony
Hello TonyD................long time no hear???
-- Edited by Disco Duck on Friday 11th of December 2009 09:22:27 PM
The trouble with people who lend you things is they have the hide to want them returned
PS: It's not just the Biro.....I might have to dip into my playlunch money and buy a new notebook!
-- Edited by jimricho on Saturday 12th of December 2009 05:10:44 AM
Mate! you gotta have toys! Especially toys that frustrate the livin' sh1t out of you!
Granny you need to create a scandal and Max whatshisname will aproach you. As I said go on the Cougars cruise with a grandson as your escort (saves the cost of a male escort) be seen blind drunk together, make loud noises about what a celebrity you are and how you like your escorts young etc and presto within no time you will have created a personna suitable of an agent to manage it...
Corey yes what a drop kick, some mothers do have em.... But there in lies Grannys solution simply organise a party, trash the venue, surrepticiously call the media and hey presto Max whatshisface will be offering her squillions....
OH YES!!! The SKULL and CROSSED SWORDS and THE DUCK!!! What a team!!
Don't know about "Fly Navy".........but fly we will!!