From the monthly archives:

February 2008

I Can Haz AdSense?

February 27, 2008

These are from the next group of instant internet millionaires. (Following are excerpts from a few posts at Google’s AdSense help forum.)
I just want to know if AdSense set-up is liable the Publisher to be charged on every advertisement she will be selected on her blogspot? Or there issuch a hidden fee?

pls someone should pls [...]

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eBay Boycott Starts Today

February 18, 2008

eBay sellers are rebelling against the recently announced fee changes and policy changes at eBay.
Chief among the the offending changes is the increased final value fee — the percentage of a product’s sale sale price that goes to eBay.
I really appreciated the semantics that eBay used in announcing its fee changes. Their official announcement said [...]

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Selling Affordable Boats

February 18, 2008

My husband works for a yacht brokerage in Punta Gorda. He gets at least one call or visit every week from someone who wants to sell a boat that’s simply too low-cost for the brokerage to list it. The brokerage, like most yacht brokerages, charges a commission based on a percentage of the boat’s sale [...]

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"Rat Rods"

February 8, 2008

I had always thought that people who bought and restored old cars wanted to restore the car to a condition as close as possible to its original factory condition — where everything from the paint job and tires to the knobs on the dashboard would be the same as in the original, and preferably in [...]

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Ebay’s New Fee Structure

February 2, 2008

Hmph! No sooner do I start making money as an eBay affiliate than eBay’s CEO steps down, and the new CEO immediately starts making changes. These changes may be good for affiliates, or bad for affiliates — the jury’s still out.
The biggest change is the new fee structure for sellers listing products for sale. eBay [...]

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