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1. SIS wasnt charting enough or doing that well commerically, hence why HxG choose to do a complete 180 aesthetic and concept wise. Looking at the sales and chart numbers for SIS, Beautifull Chaos and Wild (so far) this is evident

2. Foreign artists in the United States must pay a 30% gross withholding tax on their earnings in the USA, hence why a lot of Kpop groups are trying to focus more on Europe and South America. Hence why Wild has songs like a Euro techno pop Pinky up and Brazilian phonk Hootie Frutti to appeal to those markets. Plus Latin inspired music is trending in general. Gabriella was the guinea pig of trying to get in the Latin marketed and it was wildley succesfull, same for Gnarly and techno/EDM/hyperpop so HxG are putting all their eggs in those 2 baskets.

3. During Dream Academy mission 3, they had 3 different concept videos. Buttons was way more popular then the other 2. You can chalk that up to the dance trend that went viral on TikTok, but for HxG that signals that a Buttons type of concept is what the people wanted.

4. When Manon went on hiatus, there were still at least 2 active brand deals for Katseye which included all 6 members: Gap and Matrix hair care. Hence why Gap releases a Manon hoodie and Manon is still being used in Matrix promotional material. Both brands paid for the rights to use campaigns of the 6 members. If HxG fires any of the the members while the brand deal is still active, they have to pay damages to the respective brand. Hence why they can not come out with a statement regarding Manon.

5. Katseye is actually very media trained, but in a way to steer up drama and controversy which keeps people talking. Also them saying that Wild is the most autentic to them and their favorite concept is just coperate parotting. Sure, they can maybe actually like their current concept but when they talk about it they are on the payroll so ofcourse they will be positive.

6. Continuation of point 2, Daniella is pushed as a center now to appeal to the Latin market. That is an understandable move from HxG. But that makes me question why Megan isnt getting the European push for her being part Swedish. Is it because she was already marketed as the Chinese one? I get that she is mainly very much American and prior to Dream Acdemy/Katseye didnt even know basic Catonese. But to me this seems like a marketing misser from HxG.

Its a limited edition that came out earlier this year, yet still available for order. The banana one and the Summer trio of lippies got sold out pretty quickly. Why is that not the case for swret pea?

I love the city exclusive candles by Diptyque and have bought 1 on every trip I went the past year. On the online market place Vinted, there is a seller with 6 of the collection. All still in plastic wrapping and unused and for a decent price. I asked the seller for the reciept from when they bought it: they send me a screenshot from a confirmation email from diotyque from when they ordered the candels online. Only the email is from 2018, so the candels are 8 years old. Will they still be good and enjoyable or should I let this one go?

Edit: The 3 that I would want to buy from this seller would total up to €214, including shipping. Or €71,33 per candle. I think thats pretty fair and not really outrageous? I paid €69 at Hong Kong Airport for the candle and €66 in Tokyo. Both were tax free.

Ik wou een paar weken terug wat kopen bij een Nederlandse parfumwinkel keten met meerdere winkels in zowel Nederland (hoofdkantoor), Belgie en Zuid Afrika. Wanneer je een member kaart hebt bij deze keten, krijg je toegang tot het online archief: producten met vrij hoge korting, rest partijen van limited edition producten etc. Aangezien ik member ben keek ik bij het archief en zag ik dat een limited edition kaars van mijn lievelingsmerk die normaal €78 kost nu met 40% korting. Alleen was deze kaars alleen nog maar in de fysieke winkel te koop, toevallig alleen bij het filiaal in mijn woonplaats. Ik ben toen naar het filiaal gegaan waar de kaars inderdaad nog was. Alleen wel voor de volle prijs. Volgens het winkel personeel was dit filiaal een zelfstandig franchise onder de naam van de parfumwinkel keten: zij hanteren niet de archief korting hierdoor.

Nou kan de korting me gestolen worden, maar nergens op de website of de algemene voorwaarden of in de winkel zelf wordt aangegeven dat er franchise winkels binnen deze keten bestaan of dat bepaalde winkels de archief korting niet hanteren. Op de website staan alle filialen netjes opgesomd zonder extra uitleg of franchise aanduiding oid.

Ik heb de klatenservice hierover gecontacteerd, maar zij geven aan dat het product niet meer op beschikbaar staat in het filiaal wat ik het wou kopen en zij er dus vanuit gaan dat het product daar niet aanwezig was. Vragen over waar in de algemene voorwaarden of communicatie naar de klant staat dat bepaalde filialen niet de aangegeven korting kunnen hanteren of vragen over zelfstandige winkels worden genegeerd. Toen ik voor de 3e verzocht om waar de eventuele uitsluiting van winkels in de algemene voorwaarden zou moeten staan om aan mij als consument te woeden gecommuniceerd, werd ik geblokeerd door de klantenservice (al het contact hier mee verliep via whatsapp).

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I need an additional suit case. I am currently in Tokyo. I had on my last trip a horrible experience with a TSA lock auit case with resulted in the hotel staff breaking my suit case open with a crow bar due the lock being faulty. I do not want another suit case with a TSA lock because of this. I want a suit case that you just zip up. Where can I find this? I went to the mega Don Quijote but all the bigger suitcases seemed to have a TSA lock.

I have been staying Seoul since last friday, I have trqveled to this city before and am well cersed in Hangul/Korean. I am a female solo traveler. For my own safety and peace of my mind i soley stay in hotels with staff workers at least present some hours of the day. I am aware that seoul is a very safe city and i generally feel very safe whenever i travel here.

Anyways this trip was kind of last minute (booked a month before the actual trip while i usually want 2-3 months in adcance planning of flights and hotels) and a lot of my usual hotels/preferences were unavailable. I then found this hotel which is close to a subway line, has a rating of 8,6 and is also not pricey but not cheap for seoul standards either. So i think sweet, nice deal.

I arrive at the hotel on friday after 4 hours of flight delay around 6.30pm. My taxi driver is confused because when he wanted to help me bring my luggae inside he noticed the door is closed. Which it was indeed and had a sign in hangul that asked for a code which i had never received. I find a small side door which is unlocked and i use to enter. I then check in through a big screen and receive my room key. No desk or staff insight.

After refreshing i get out of the building to grab some dinner and walk around a bit. I arrive at the hotel again at around 11pm and my door is wide open. Nothing was stolen but this made me really anxious and unsafe. The doors lock automatically seconds after shutting the door. Now i could have not properly shut the door but i highly doubt it since i am always the person who checks the doors before leaving. It has not happened since.

My room is very small, which i did not prior from booking.com, but it is so extremely hot. The windows do open but they open with a shut wall behind them so no airflow. Aircon is loud and confusing. There is a pannel with several tabs right in front of my bed on the wall that offer the lights/aircon control. However if i turn everything of to go to sleep the pannels all emit a bright blue light right in my line of sight. This combined with that my room has no curtains or blinders and the lights from the hallway to the other rooms shines through my window makes it hard to impossible to sleep. Also the walls are super thin. I can hear everything from phone notifications to coughing to people calling, snoring or watching tv.

There are 16 rooms in this hotel in total spread over 2 floors, ao its a small hotel.

I did not receive the enterancr code to the main door and the instructions on how to use the aircon/room teprature adjustments till 17 hours after i checked in (next morning around 11 am).

Its been nearly 4 days now since arriving here and i have not seen any staff or any other guests. The check in screen indicates that all rooms are in use at the moment. Last night (sunday) late at night i felt so irritated by the room and confused by the hotel state. In these days my room was also never cleamed despite it nowhere stating that the hotel is without cleaning/maids. The hotel seems completly self service : there is a laundry basket for dirty towels and one with clean towels in the hallway. There are open baskets in the staircase era where i have to throw in my trash. These do not get emptied daily and also include like food waste so it being out and about in inside 28 degrees makes it reek all through the building.

I googled the hotel and found it listed on 1 other website other then booking.com that calls it a motel instead of a hotel and all bookings are done by the hour and have descriptions as "love booking" "healing hours" "love exit" etc. Which raises red flags for me that im staying in a love hotel. The hotel does not look raunchy, its minimalistic with white and brown interior all over and renovated last year. I go to the check in bord and see that there is an option to book a room which i select and i only have options for 4 and 5 hours use. Booking.com only includes seemingly normal booking choose actual days type of booking.

Is this a scam or did i not do my homework properly?

My flight with china southern airlines from earlier today from amsterdam to guangzhou had an announcement about 1 hour before landing: there was an ebola patient onboard and all passengers were asked to be aware of sympthoms. I asked a steward to confirm the announcement in english. I had a transfer in guangzhou to seoul. I was not checked/tested or further informed about what to in case of (suspicion) of infection and i was able to board my plane to seoul without any questions. Is this a normal way how an airline handels this types of incidents? I have not traveled by plane that much and i feel a bit worried now.

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Ikzelf heb PCOS en wordt zeer onregelmatig ongesteld, dus heb ik altijd wel iets van een pakje maandverband of tampons in mijn tas. Daarnaast vind ik het ook fijn dat als iemand mij erom vraagt, ik het paraat heb. Van andere vrouwen uit mijn omgeving hoor ik juist dat het raar is om dit constant bij je te hebben. Hoe zit dat bij jullie?

Edit: ik krijg te horen van andere vrouwen dat het raar is omdat ik 1) mijn lichaam niet goed genoeg zou kennen 2) dat er maatschappenlijke plicht zou moeten zijn om tampons gratis te geven op kantoren en openbare plekken zoals een sportschool of bieb en dat doordat ik zelf een tampon meeneem ik het probleem in stand zou houden 3) het neemt ruimte in beslag in de tas 4) niet iedereen heeft het budget om tampons aan andere te kunnen geven

The Gaunts are very much removed from the rest of the wizard community, so i dont think they ever went to diagon alley to shop to buy potion ingredients. Also merope was never formally trained in wizardy and potion making. Therefore in my opion it is way more likely that she saw her father or brother use the impersius curse at some point and that that is how she made tom riddle snr fall in love with her.