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To: MineralMan
Still, I doubt that they're interested even in that deposit, since it's not something that happens a lot in my account.

On the other hand, it may make them more interested. You've done something out of your profile.

77 posted on 04/27/2005 8:38:28 AM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

"On the other hand, it may make them more interested. You've done something out of your profile."

Yeah, right...my profile...

I'm so boring in my financial transactions that I'm not even interested. I buy and sell a car at least once a year, so that $4k is not out of the ordinary for me.

They aren't interested in my puny little transactions. They're not interested in me at all. And if they do get interested, they'll be bored to tears once they talk to me.


81 posted on 04/27/2005 8:41:15 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

I'll tell you a funny story about my profile:

A couple of years ago, the California sales tax people decided that my little internet business wasn't paying enough sales taxes. I guess they based that on some profile or another. So, they notified me that they wanted to audit my books for the previous 5 years.

The auditor guy called me to arrange a visit to my place of business, and I said OK. "What do you need to see?" I asked him.

"Your double-entry accounting records," he responded.

I just laughed at him. "Double-entry? I don't even keep single-entry books. I had a total of 557 orders last year. I have all the invoices for them, plus a list of customers, their states, and amount of purchase in a database. How's that?"

Well, he said he'd have to see.

He showed up at my office, where I had assembled the boxes of invoices, the original order forms from the web site, and my printout of all sales for each year under audit.

He took one look at my small stock of items I sell on the web site, the cardboard boxes with the orders and invoices in them, and my puny little 16-page printouts, and laughed.

I gave him a cup of coffee and we talked about fishing for an hour. Then he went away and told me the state wouldn't be bothering me again.


92 posted on 04/27/2005 8:49:06 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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