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Old Sep 19th 2004, 2:53 pm
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You might think that we are daft for turning this offer down but i think my reasons are worth while!!!

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Matty D and Mrs D[/QUOTE]


I dont think you are daft at all...I would also have said thanks but no thanks! Id never leave my baby and fly round the other side of the world without him! A good choice, I think.

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Old Sep 19th 2004, 3:54 pm
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Originally Posted by mattyd
Well after i sent the questonaire back to them on Friday we had another phone call from them half an hour later (shocked or what)

My wife was speaking to them this time but they said they wanted us to go for an interveiw on Tuesday . However, my wife is a teacher and cannot get days off at the drop of a hat. After explaining this they said they would let us interview later in the week and if we could make it to ring them on Monday morning.They also said that we would not be able to take our 11month old son with us, when we said that we would pay they stated that we would be on the film set for 12hours a day and that this was no pl;ace for a child. My wife and i discussed it and have come up with the following conclusion. We are not going to go!!

We thought that they would pay for all expenses but they probably will not cover loss of earnings. They said we would be filming for 7days and then the flights would add another 2 and then probably 1 to get over jet lag.This would cost us between £1500 - £2000. Considering we are actually emigrating on the 7th Jan we cannot afford to lose this sort of money, and also we would not want to be apart from our son.

So to answer a few questions, yes we already have our visa's, they are skilled independant and took us a long time to get.
There is a phone number on there web site that you can ring and leave your details on the answer machine. I did it ages ago and actually forgot all about doing it.
The questionaire was very simple, age, location going to, amount of money, reason for going, occupation etc etc

You might think that we are daft for turning this offer down but i think my reasons are worth while!!!

Cheers
Matty D and Mrs D
Do they still pay for airfares, hotel and breakfast?

Don't think you are daft at all. We thought the same thing when we almost had the opportunity. We arranged for my husbands dad to come with us to look after our little un' and we would have changed the return flights and stayed for 3 weeks. I couldn't do that now as I'm doing a SCITT PGCE so I couldn't get the time off but at that time I was at uni so time off wasn't such a problem.

Anyway, best of luck with the big move.
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Old Sep 19th 2004, 7:41 pm
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The email wasn't from Mr Joshua N'Noko of "A place in de sun", was it?

Offering you a flight to Lagos? And 25% of his illegal bank account?

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Originally Posted by Rog Williams
The email wasn't from Mr Joshua N'Noko of "A place in de sun", was it?

Offering you a flight to Lagos? And 25% of his illegal bank account?

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Funnily enough I've had plenty similar to that. In fact I had one on Friday but was disappointed to find it was only worth US $10,000,000. Seeing as I've been personally picked out to handle deals up to US $42,000,000 (in order for a 50% cut no less) I found this offer derisory.
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