Hurdler's Race to be Mortgage-Free

Winter_Jasmine

Good luck with your to-dos!

Hurdler

Hmm registered with somthing called Bounts to get "reward" points for going to the gym and the few times I hit over 7000 steps in a day but i know loads of people on the Fitbit group who boast about cheating the system by creating a gym in their home and using foursquare to log in there... yet Bounts did not pick up my check in at the Virgin active where my physio runs rehab sessions.

So have had an unproductive morning with their help desk where they won't credit me the 5 points yet people on the Facebook group are boasting about how many times they fool it into thinking they checked in at the gym down the road or how foursquare let them set up their home as a Gym/Fitness location and they get points for getting out of bed... so frustrating they benefit by cheating and I try and use it properly and within my injury limitations (so I don't run around like an eejit just to get steps up)...

ETA: OK well the helpdesk guy from Bounts said he would credit me with 100 points for honest feedback and that they have been monitoring the more fraudulent entries and will be putting a stop to that - which I am sure won't make me popular with the FitBit group but really... it isn't on for them to get points for literally driving past the gym location down the road when I don't get anything for ACTUALLY being in the gym!

Winter_Jasmine

I registered with Bounts last week. Thought it would be an excellent motivator so I dug out my Fitbit and charged it up, the display had stopped working but I checked it was tracking so thought all was well...then I went for a run/walk the next morning, got back and synced the blooming thing, absolutely certain that I'd done more than 7,000 steps....and found it had stopped tracking me two hours after I'd charged it up :mad: Dunno what's wrong with it, the battery holds life ok and I've uninstalled/reinstalled the software, reset it etc etc. Need to email them really, I last used it in August 2013 which I know is a while ago but I wouldn't have thought that'd be long enough to completely kill it?

Hurdler

Winter_Jasmine wrote: »

I registered with Bounts last week. Thought it would be an excellent motivator so I dug out my Fitbit and charged it up, the display had stopped working but I checked it was tracking so thought all was well...then I went for a run/walk the next morning, got back and synced the blooming thing, absolutely certain that I'd done more than 7,000 steps....and found it had stopped tracking me two hours after I'd charged it up :mad: Dunno what's wrong with it, the battery holds life ok and I've uninstalled/reinstalled the software, reset it etc etc. Need to email them really, I last used it in August 2013 which I know is a while ago but I wouldn't have thought that'd be long enough to completely kill it?

Which one have you got? Ultra or one?

Winter_Jasmine

I've got the Ultra (if that's the old one that they don't do anymore?!)

Hurdler

Winter_Jasmine wrote: »

I've got the Ultra (if that's the old one that they don't do anymore?!)

Yeah I started with that and then when it cracked they sent me a One (mine cracked after just six months) - I mean try and email them and say that it is dropping its charge and see if they offer you a new one ... Worth a try. I got a One and several cases out of them!

Hurdler

Winter_Jasmine wrote: »

Good luck with your to-dos!

Oof bit of a disaster on the ToDo front. By the time I finished defending my right to use my Fitbit and bounts how I choose with a particularly snotty b**** on the Fitbit Facebook group and did the gym, lunch and bank I had barely an hour before I had to head to Earls Court to meet a journo school friend I forgot I was meeting.

She was great though - she has been my go to buddy through a lot of the writing hard times so it was a great catch up in light of the Wimbledon news.

I am not supposed to be starting until 5 today unless I have some previews to do so might be able to get the soups done.

Oh I included the twitter handle of the people who make the knee braces I use and they tweeted me wanting a pic of the braces and having read some of my articles so seeing as I need a second spare pair - wondering if I can tap them for a discount!!!

Hurdler

Woot - been paid already. Not working until 5 unless I need to do some previews ahead of today's play so watch this space for catch up MFWing....

Hurdler

Gutted. Something is afoot and may lose the Wimbledon accreditation and may be halted from the French Open and all UK events because one of the sites my bosses run linkes to streams run by betting sites.

So I have the job of my dreams in some ways (being paid to watch.write about tennis) but may be prevented from covering key events just because of my boss's desire for click throughs (he made us start putting in links to streaming on the clean site we use for accreditation and the two sites are virtually identical).

I could, in fact am pretty much crying. Dream job with thorns.:(

ETA: So conflicted. Do I stay in a job where I still write decent tennis content and get paid (pretty well) and enough to potentially be mortgage free in 5 years, or start from scratch and earn peanuts but won't be compromised with live streaming/gamling affiliates.

I honestly don't know at the point and have a full evening shift to cover now. Grey cloud doesn't even begin to cover it.

Alchemilla

Oh bloody hell!