[EDIT: I retract what I said below about posts being deleted. I was mistaken. It turns out that there were two threads, with the same title, started at the same time, with the same first post. I read one thread then, at a later date, read the other thread, thinking it was the same thread I had read previously, after most posts had been removed and new posts had been added.
My apologies for my mistake. In feeble mitigation, I plead that WeRe forum moderator should have merged the two threads.]
The WeRe Bank private forum currently has 325 members. I expect a slow trickle of new members, and old members who get bored won't bother de-registering, so the total membership will keep increasing, slowly.
As far as I can see, only one member (in Australia) has expressed interest in exchanging labour for Re units. For the rest, the forum is a place to express frustration that the admin is totally hopeless, and what do we do when cheques bounce.
To my surprise, many posts have been deleted. Perhaps by the posters themselves. If someone has a problem, and they post about it, and Peter solves it, perhaps they simply delete the post. Maybe. Or Peter "solves" the problem by deleting the post.
As of a couple of days ago, a thread named "Promissory Note" looked like this:
160759PS wrote:I guess I may have been one of the few who signed up in the first batch of accounts, I have a cheque book with 50 cheques I signed and sent a Promissory note to Manchester and also made a payment for my account via Paypal, but Now I cant see any of this and want to know if the initial £10 will be credited to my new account and do I need to send a new Promissory note?
301156JM wrote:Hi - It appears crutial Admin duties & basic response communications are suffering delays of 'success'...
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I have hardly received any direct contact by any means & am still awaiting cheques & my PM to be scanned into my account. .. and the balance to be indicated.
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Patience is the term I constantly hear.... While the 'squeaky wheel', (or those assoviated to certain groups) do appear to get the oil ! !!
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Steve Mac UK
020859DS wrote:Hi PS
I also was one of the first to sign up this year.
Did you add your Prom note to your werebank account? I didnt have to do this myself as it was done for me, it depends when you joined, others have to do it themselves, the instructions are on the site i believe.
On the ledger the £10 shows on the right hand side as Re and it should say 40 Re as its around double.
Your original prommisorry note should suffice, as mine has.
hopefully you sent it via recorded delivery so you have confirmation it was received..
People seem to have to wait a little longer for things to settle in if they engaged near the paypal hijack for obvious reasons.
Hope it all sorts itself out soon
Moi_33
Let the Victories continue
181057AS aka Peter Smith wrote:A brief history of banknotes
TEN SHILLINGS
The first recorded use of paper money was in the 7th century in China. [... many more paragraphs ...] The last private bank notes in England and Wales were issued by the Somerset bank, Fox, Fowler and Co in 1921.
160265SG wrote:I was also one of the early members ;)
ref: "Did you add your Prom note to your were bank account? I didnt have to do this myself as it was done for me, it depends when you joined"
Unfortunately when my WeRe account was set up the Prom Note was not listed :!:
I had sent an email to Peter sometime ago now asking if the Prom Note had been received, he confirmed it had been!!!!
I have now had to add the Prom Note to my account as a "loan" but it is still pending .................... how can it be pens=ding if it was confirmed weeks ago it had been received?
So Peter's response (now vanished) was an irrelevant copy-pasta about banknotes. Other posters ignored his post. Perhaps they didn't realise who wrote it. Now, all the posts apart from the first have vanished, but there are a couple of new posts with the same problems. Until they also get deleted.020859DS wrote:My guess is it needs a 'body' to actualise it, it will all come together.. to me its incedible what has been accomplished with so few in such a short time :mrgreen:
In other threads, a number of members offer to help Peter with admin. There is no response.
Draw your own conclusions. I would say that Peter doesn't have the organisational skills to run even this fairly simple business venture. True, it isn't helped by having his banking facilities stripped away, but he seems incapable of keeping tabs on who has paid what, and keeping his customers happy. Worse still, he buries his incompetence by deleting posts.
I expect his upcoming talks will reveal more head-in-the-cloud ideas, and the audience will applaud while ignoring the inconvenient truth that he can't deliver even a basic service like: "Send me a promissory note and I will credit it to your account."
(I wouldn't condemn anyone for having wacky ideas but no ability to implement them. But someone of Peter's age should not pretend he can do things that he can't.)