What's really annoying about eBay is selling. When you buy from eBay, it's easy to know if you are going to get scammed (providing you use some common sense). A buyer from Jersey needs payment sent to India? I'm out. But selling is a whole other issue.
I had this one incident where I was selling something and the winning bidder looked pretty trustworthy; a few dozen positive feedbacks, a member for 2-3 years, from the States, the whole deal. So a few hours after the auction ends I get an email saying they needed the item shipped to India because they were visiting family and didn't want the item sent to an empty house. To the average, non-common sense using user, this might seem like a reasonable request but it's bullshit.
So I refused the deal, reported the account to eBay and the next day got an email saying the real account owner's account had been "compromised" and that they were looking into it. What really sucked is that it took 2 months to get a refund for the cost of putting up the auction (listing fees), and the final value fee from when the item sold. Since it was kind of an expensive item, and eBay already rapes it's users on fees, I was out something like $30 until it was finally refunded.
So again, buyers can avoid trouble with common sense, but wheres the protection for sellers? We can't tell off the bat when someone steals a legit user's account and then tries scamming us AFTER the fact.
Its only intrusive to people that have something to hide (or are annoying, paranoid, anti-everything retards). Force cameras in my home, than I will have a problem, otherwise I welcome big brother outdoors.
I'm 27 and just saw all 6 (in a row) this past 2 weeks. I recommend seeing them in proper order (4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3). There are more surprises that way. Of course at my age and unless you hide in a cave from pop culture, you already know the bigger points of the stories. Regardless, I thought they were badassed.
For $20, this book is worth buying. The reviewer was right about the first 140 pages or so; there's alot of general SEO information and other tips that, while not necessarily groundbreaking, are pretty helpful or atleast serve as a reminder of things you might not think of right away when creating a new site.
I haven't read the entire book yet so I can't say that it will make you an overnight AdSense millionaire, but for the cost of the book and what I've read so far on content, site optimization, and advertising, it's worth picking up if you're in to this kind of thing.
I just got a Macbook Pro last week and after messing around for a few hours in OSX, I'm cool with being Windows free. I primarily do web design, graphics, and music so a mac is the most obvious choice.. however up to this point I've been strictly a windows user. It's nice to have the option to install xp on a mac, for whatever reason, and whereas this probably will not heard millions of people to a mac, it will be a pretty nice incentive for a lot of people to switch.
People who aren't afraid to disrupt their familiar (yet uncomfortable) surroundings in the PC world will be much better off giving Apple a shot.
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What's really annoying about eBay is selling. When you buy from eBay, it's easy to know if you are going to get scammed (providing you use some common sense). A buyer from Jersey needs payment sent to India? I'm out. But selling is a whole other issue.
I had this one incident where I was selling something and the winning bidder looked pretty trustworthy; a few dozen positive feedbacks, a member for 2-3 years, from the States, the whole deal. So a few hours after the auction ends I get an email saying they needed the item shipped to India because they were visiting family and didn't want the item sent to an empty house. To the average, non-common sense using user, this might seem like a reasonable request but it's bullshit.
So I refused the deal, reported the account to eBay and the next day got an email saying the real account owner's account had been "compromised" and that they were looking into it. What really sucked is that it took 2 months to get a refund for the cost of putting up the auction (listing fees), and the final value fee from when the item sold. Since it was kind of an expensive item, and eBay already rapes it's users on fees, I was out something like $30 until it was finally refunded.
So again, buyers can avoid trouble with common sense, but wheres the protection for sellers? We can't tell off the bat when someone steals a legit user's account and then tries scamming us AFTER the fact.
I really hate eBay.
Let me put this in the "No Shit" pile.
Its only intrusive to people that have something to hide (or are annoying, paranoid, anti-everything retards). Force cameras in my home, than I will have a problem, otherwise I welcome big brother outdoors.
I'm 27 and just saw all 6 (in a row) this past 2 weeks. I recommend seeing them in proper order (4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3). There are more surprises that way. Of course at my age and unless you hide in a cave from pop culture, you already know the bigger points of the stories. Regardless, I thought they were badassed.
For $20, this book is worth buying. The reviewer was right about the first 140 pages or so; there's alot of general SEO information and other tips that, while not necessarily groundbreaking, are pretty helpful or atleast serve as a reminder of things you might not think of right away when creating a new site. I haven't read the entire book yet so I can't say that it will make you an overnight AdSense millionaire, but for the cost of the book and what I've read so far on content, site optimization, and advertising, it's worth picking up if you're in to this kind of thing.
I just got a Macbook Pro last week and after messing around for a few hours in OSX, I'm cool with being Windows free. I primarily do web design, graphics, and music so a mac is the most obvious choice.. however up to this point I've been strictly a windows user. It's nice to have the option to install xp on a mac, for whatever reason, and whereas this probably will not heard millions of people to a mac, it will be a pretty nice incentive for a lot of people to switch.
People who aren't afraid to disrupt their familiar (yet uncomfortable) surroundings in the PC world will be much better off giving Apple a shot.