Imagine that you go around the forest by car, stop, go to a little walk, scout, how to grow trees, flowers ...

Wallet from the bag and leave in the back seat, you return to nature ... for 15 minutes, broken window, money, documents, cell phone ... gone, sit in the car, after a while you find that you have cut through the tire ...

Thanks, Richersons
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BOMB!

It happened to me this a month ago. I could lament, blaming the world swear ... but let's look at what the life I wanted to say:

  • more trust in your intuition - if I have of closing the car, I had no idea that I should hide the bag, but I said that but I'm going to just jump off ... it was a mistake
  • Owner at hand another phone with important numbers stored - so I can block the SIM card and credit cards
  • Owner copies of buried somewhere - I did it, but luckily I had a passport at least at home, so I handled some things with him
  • wear all the cards from him - I had four cards (private / corporate), I used practically in the field ... only one was unnecessary to carry all of them

Now there was another problem, I blocked cards, but a few days I expect payment for various Internet services, which were necessary to run the business. I've found:

  • webhosting - I contacted them, I gladly moved the payment 14 days later
  • Google ads - for failure to pay me all stopli and display warning
  • Facebook advertising - failure to pay me for all stopli and display warning
  • Money - I contacted them, I let the service run and display a warning

Now I needed to quickly equip new international payment card enabled payments over the Internet.

In the meantime, I moved all accounts to Fio Banks, but still I stayed in one of the Company. And it was my good fortune.

Credit cards for Fio CSOB Bank produces and it takes 3-4 weeks. In fact a month has passed already and still do not have cards ready. In the Czech Savings Bank luckily it went faster. The card I had available at 9 working days ... it was just before the limit when stopped by my hosting service ... and if you do business on the Internet, running a website is your highest priority.

It was interesting and quite expensive lesson ...

The total damage of about £ 30 000 ... but I'm glad it happened to me at a time when this would have serious consequences for business.

Do you have similar experience?