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I will be adding rules here that you can cut and paste into your ebay auctions to prevent being scammed by international Ebay / PayPal scammers.  You should read the previous articles if you have not yet to understand this 3rd installment Article 1:   http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/ebay-paypal-quick-spin-international-payment-turn-around-scam.htm Article 2:   ebay appears to sweep fraud under the rug.   All buyers outside of the USA must meet the following requires to bid:  1- You must have been a member of eBay for more than 1 year and have transactions in your feedback profile dating back one year. 2- Your feedback profile must meet one of Read more…

If you have not used Panoramio yet it allows you to upload landscape / metroscape pictures to the website at http://www.panoramio.com/    After you have uploaded the photos you can enter coordinates or use google mapping functions to plot the points on Google Earth.  Then other users can view your photos and get a more down to earth view of various points on the globe. Ok ….so naturally the no brainer conclusion is that cameras will soon have GPS function built in to log photo locations so you can connect the camera to your pc and pipe the photo / position data Read more…

This is a story told to me by a professor when I was doing my masters degree at ASU. I was in a class called “Signal Detection Theory” taught by my favorite professor of all time Doug Cochran.  He was an eminently fair guy and a real sweetheart when it came to any issues regarding classes.  A couple of weeks before the final he announced in class that if you were happy with your grade thus far that you did not have to take the final exam. You would be credited with the grade you had going at the time of Read more…

In order to understand this article you will need to read this first: Ebay PayPal Quick Spin International Payment Turn Around Scam Now that you have read that article I will proceed to show how Ebay and PayPal appear to cover up the fraud and re-register the same guy using the same name and address so he can repeat his fraud !!!! The Ebay ID’s and addresses used are shown below: anlogvins  He only got 2 feedback entries with this one. Indicates he got less this round. However the time gap between HIGHOBELISK and this id is so long I have Read more…

The only way you can explain the total lack of innovation in the area of cell phones is that cell phone networks are walled gardens that are extremely limited in competition.  If you are are interested in browsing the internet whilst on the go to get information here is the minimal ATT/Cingular plan Rate Plan Details – Included Data 5MB – Additional Data 0.015/KB – International Data $0.02/KB Yes you read that right. You get 5 MB of data transfer.  That’s it. Its rediculous. It’s dumb. Only a business protected by government regulation can do this ! Such poor service at Read more…

How many times have I woken up in the morning to the helicoptors beating the air early in the day. Not just one helicopter.  I’ve seen 4 and 5 of you at a time when the story is marketable.  Now some of you are no more and you are a marketable story yourselves.   Am I sorry you are gone ? Yes its terrible this happened.  Am I surprised ?  NO! This collision is a metaphor for what the press is doing to the country.  If the story is sellable you’ll tell it from the angle that sells best even if its Read more…

A poem I came across on the internet:   ITHACA By Constantine P. Cavafy, circa 1900 Translated from Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn As you set out on the way to Ithaca hope that the road is a long one, filled with adventures, filled with understanding. The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes, Poseidon in his anger: do not fear them, you’ll never come across them on your way as long as your mind stays aloft, and a choice emotion touches your spirit and your body. The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes, savage Poseidon; you’ll not encounter them unless you carry them within your soul, unless your Read more…

Do you assume that Paris’ porn tapes are not *reality TV* ?  That they are sex tapes leaked by a money hungry cad ?  I don’t.  Long ago I came to the conclusion that all the *leaked* sex tapes like Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson were intended leaks meant to allow them to use the porn angle to promote themselves and enhance their fame without being *porn stars*. Full on porn stars are seen as limiting themselves while leaked tapes do the same job without the limitations on career.  Thus Paris has smoked her sausage and ate it too!

I wrote an article a while back about how certain big online Amazon sellers tend to do a bait and switch.  They list large numbers of books and they do not have alot of them.  Then if they get an order they do not have they send ANYTHING hoping to buy time or ???.  You can see the original artical here:  frugalmedia01 apparent bait and switch techniques This article is about how certain types of postings are set to very low google search placements or possibly supressed altogether…… 1- Do this search -  frugalmedia01   site:amarketplaceofideas.com RESULT: It appears this article is in Read more…