I honestly didn’t think I would have a reader update so quickly, but here I am. In 24 hours, I’ve had 26 preorders and while it is upsetting I didn’t hit 250 immediately... THANK YOU!
I attempted to record a new video for TSM homepage on Inkshares, and, well, you should just see what I had to work with. In the video I attempt to tell people that I have already finished the book and am currently working on the second draft right now. That means when we hit the funding goal, the book will follow shortly after.
I’m planning to get this done before November 2016 because I will be stationed to a ship out of San Diego and deployed who-knows-where doing who-knows-what (I’m an IT Technician, so it will be a lot of, "Have you tried turning it off and back on again in a classified way?").
So many people have already recommended and shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Inkshares, it has made my day. I need everyone’s help getting the book out to the people I don’t know. For my part, I will continue to comb Inkshares, leave reviews, pre-order when I can, and keep working, but if the first 24 hours are any indication, this is going to be no problem.
Sweet Dreams,
Stephen Carignan
P.S. If you saw the video, Emma says hi.
Ask your bank to set you up with a secondary account for online purchases, and keep only a small amount in that account. The account would need its own ATM card, with its own credit card number. Just make sure this account lacks overdraft protection; you don’t want money moving automatically from your real account into this one.
Buy a Visa Gift Card online from an official retailer. Con: not reloadable so when it’s done it’s done. One of many example retailers: www.giftcards.com/visa-gift-cards Additionally, in Germany you can buy gift cards at these locations and more: Gallerian, Kaufhof, Karstadt, Douglas, H&M, etc.
I would need to do more research into it, but you could look into getting a virtual credit card, like VCPay. Here’s an article from a South African explaining how he is using it: https://toughnickel.com/personal-finance/VCpay
Another possible method that I would need to test to see if it can be used like a credit card is Paysafecard (https://www.paysafecard.com/en-us/products/) I did a search using my village’s postal code and found vendors in my village and the two neighboring ones.
Finally, in my research I found Global GCash Virtual Pay, which has a lot of little nice benefits that can be used.