Ramblings and Blog
This page is where I will post a variety of different articles,
mostly my own ramblings, likes and dislikes, links to other
sites and blogs with information I find useful or funny, in
short a hotch potch of ideas and information, in which I hope
you find something of interest.
At the moment I have a few issues with ebay,
which I use for both buying and selling.
The incoming CEO, John Donahoe, has implemented a
number of controversial changes including the following:-
A reduction in listing fees, sounds good until
you realise the final value fees (which you pay when your item
sells) are being increased by up to 66% in some
cases.
Changes to the feedback system (due to be
implemented in May) which allow buyers the option of leaving
positive, neutral or negative, whilst limiting sellers to leaving
only positive feedback. This is a radical and in my opinion,
unjustifiable change, which will make staying with ebay impossible
for many sellers.
These are just a few of the changes, there are
many more, for discussions on these and related issues visit the
forum at powersellers
unite, (you do not need to be a power seller to join), or see my
page at
quassia.com for my articles on the subject.
My latest find on the web is quite unusual, a
site named Qassia, still in beta, you can only join by being
referred by an existing member at the moment (I am currently a
member, so you can join through my
link). Not really a blog as such, it is a site where you can
publish articles on virtually any subject that interests you, free
to join and use, below is a description from the sites "about"page.
"Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a
cascading tag-based web directory. What exactly does this mean? It
means that Qassia will change your life.
Good stuff your websites will like:
At Qassia, you can add your websites for free,
and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You'll get unlimited
quality backlinks (as opposed to "no-follow" backlinks). You can
also add intel.Short for "intelligence", intel is a tidbit of
information. Qassia rewards users who add intel in three ways.
Backlinks You get one backlink
for every piece of intel you add. Every intel will carry a direct
backlink to one of your sites. So the more intel you add, the more
backlinks you get.
Credit When you add intel, you
also get credit, in the form of Qassia dollars. Your net worth in
Qassia dollars determines how well your websites rank in our
directory.
Revenue When your intel is
displayed, you get 100% of the advertising revenue generated by that
page. That is not a typo, by the way: we give you ALL of the gross
ad revenue.
This means that website owners have triple
incentive to contribute intel. The contributed intel will allow
Qassia to become a vast repository of intelligence, with unrivalled
original content. And a vast amount of original content draws
traffic like honey draws ants."
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