Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Quotes

When you have a large quote you need to supply to a customer, do yourself the favour, and have someone else double check your numbers. There is likely to be a big assed mistake in there somewhere.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Dear Chinese Bloggers,

親愛的中國博客,

請不要回答我的職位,您的廣告垃圾。我只是刪除了你的答复。你既浪費我們的時間。

Dear Chinese Bloggers,

Please stop replying to my posts, advertising your crap. I just delete the your replies. You waste both our time.

Last PayPal Post

Last Post (I promise). They finally released the account,. so that I can acceess most of the money they have been holding hostage all month. The rest of it will be fully released in the next week or two. Stupid holding policy. Funny thing is, the holding is because the purchases were from eBay. My other paypal account still sells the exact same items, but there is no attachment to eBay. What a joke they are.

Did you know that the eBay CEO John Donahue has been dropping his stocks faster than Obama's Approval rating.

It's all messed up.

In future posts, there will be a lot more direct related postings, as I release the next version of the cell phone website, which will free up a ton of my time once it's all done. Then I can start inn on the marketing stuff, which should be really fun to watch sales increase.

Friday, July 23, 2010

PayPal Question

Can i file an Unpaid Item Strike against Paypal, who is STILL holding my money for several months now, and won't let me access the account?

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

This week's business news

I made several changes to my webpages. It cost a small fortune to outsource it, but it was worth it.

My traffic has doubled, and more importantly, my bounce rate has dropped from 80%+ down to 33% and people are spending several minutes looking around, rather than 5 seconds and gone. This week, I have been in negotiations with a potential customer who wants a starting order that exceeds $100,000. He found me because no one else would return his calls. HA! I love my competition. They make this easy.

Paypal... Amazing

They have had me resend the same damn documents so many damn times, I have run out of space on their upload server. What an enormous time waster.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Marketing (and outsourcing) at Work

I noticed that someone responded to one of my earlier posts here:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8837700957510037975&postID=7184975360295411554

Basically, they said some nice things, then in the 4th paragraph, started advertising thier own website. Why? Backlinks. Google will come along and see this post and backlink, and poof, boost in page ranking.

Likely, this was outsourced, to someone who used the Blogger's "Next Blog" button and they post one after another, changing some words here and there.

Personally, I think this is a waste of everyone's time and money. Thanks Google. Unfortunately, I have to start doing this too.

As for all the Chinese comments,same thing, all back links to garbage websites.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

PayPal Still Sucks

They still haven't lifted a finger to reinstate the account. They said it was illegible now. So, I am now making them 11" wide. Maybe they can see it now. Idiots.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Ebay Cancelation

Reasons for Canceling eBay Store Account:

1. Very little sales. this month, was 0.

2. They suspended my PayPal account, and won't release it, despite repeated confirmation that I am me.

3. I get WAY too many emails about how people are TRYING to buy, but get an error messone of one type or another.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Paypal Still Sucks

Not sure how many days I have been sending the same damn files to them. They are completely insane. I do no know what they hope to gain to from being this obstinate. My only guess is they collect more interest from held money?!?

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Wachovia Rewards

I received mail about a new Wachovia Rewards program. Basically, sign up, then every $4 becomes a point. The points become gift cards. So, I dug around until I found the catch. It seems that there is a $12 year fee for joining. Unfortunately, based on my math, It's a loosing deal. Besides, like I care about a $25 gift card, when I also received 3 bounce letters in the mail, totaling $80 in fees? Please, I'm broke, not stupid.

PayPal Idiocy

I know they like to waste time. This is crazy. I have sent them JPG, PDF, and Fax. They still complain they can't read my files. They are idiots. I know it is just bullshit, but come on already. I need to get paid. This si why you pull out all your money, every day, and never sell on Amazon.
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