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    Ok, did you not read my post where I said that I work from home? Also, jerk, I spent 9 months looking for a "traditional" job... NO ONE WOULD HIRE ME. I live in a city where there have been so m any layoffs that the market is flooded. Who do you think an employer would hire...? A woman who...
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    Yes, VERY illegal..... unfortunately also VERY hard to prove. I spoke to a lawyer after it happened. Basically, unless it is documented somewhere that my reason for termination was SPECIFICALLY because of pregnancy, theres very little a judge can do. I was a manager for Gingiss Formalwear at...
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    ***Begin Hijack*** Zath, where is Gurnee, IL? Is it anywhere near St. Louis,MO? ***End Hijack***
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    We thought of that right away and called the insurance agent. They don't cover ANY engine work unless it is the result of an accident or theft. Obviously, we weren't going to file a fake police report and risk going to jail. You'd think they might cover something like that, but no dice. I...
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    HI. The motor blew just over a month (give or take) after the warranty expired. The company was able to refinance the car to get a lower payment, but I doubt they'll put a hold on it. We called to ask them about the engine when it first happened, we were told "Its your responsibility to buy...
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    Ok, why you are being such a jerk is beyond me. My husband, as I mentioned, has a VERY good job and I had one also until my boss CANNED ME the day after I told him I was pregnant. You try finding a damned job when your pregnant...oh wait, you're probably a MAN you wouldn't understand that. We...
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    Phrisco, that is really sweet of you. I'll definately keep in touch! Xelder.... My husband and I live with my mother...I think she's be pretty pissed if we sold her computer and canceled her cable! BTW, we have already DONE the whole "Sell off everything you own" thing. Thats why we moved...
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    No..not a vacuum leak...engine is definately seized. My brother used to do the whole "Fast and the Furious, import fanatic performace racing" thing until he finally made the connection that his orange and black flame painted Eclipse was a cop-magnet, lol. He could probably do it, but he lives...
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    Depends...will they finance someone who is 10,000 (not including the car) and has a creit score of 460? Not joking. I lost my job due to pregnancy and we never recovered. Belive me, we thought about a loan and financing but even if we did find someone who wouldn't laugh us out of the...
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    Ummm... in my first post, I told you that we don't have the $2,000 that we have been quoted locally. Why did you think we'd be able to afford $4,000? Not meaning to be rude or anything. Our problem is that we have absolutley no money to fix this car, if we let the dealership take it back, it...
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    Its seized up (don't ask me how it happened cause we;re not really sure) We've been told that it would cost just as much to rebuild it as it would to buy another one.
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    We're in St. Louis, MO.
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    We have already checked the local junkyards.... none have ever had them.... those kind of cars are usually sold whole to dealers. Is not $1500...its no less than $2000, and even that was a low estimate. I don't know what we're going to do. We still owe nearly $10,000 on the thing (the loan...
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    Ok, I admit... I'm an angry wife. My husband bought a protege 5 a couple of years ago. Only a month after the warranty expired, the engine BLEW! It has been sitting in his parents garage for a year because, in the time since he bought the car, we've had two children. We have been quoted...
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