Spend time with your mother! It’s priceless.
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Just 1 thing this week… video poking fun at first posters.
hehe.
May 092007
This is an update on the post I wrote a post about inflating my positive feedback on ebay.
My progress so far is that in about 3 weeks I received 80 positive feedbacks. What was the point of this? Well, it was mainly an experiment to see how much it would cost for me to “buy” rack up the feedback.
Listing eBook in my eBay Store – $0.05
10% final value fee for ebook sales – $0.001 per sale
So 80 feedbacks have cost me $0.05 + $0.08 = 13 cents.
The inflated feedback count is mainly cosmetic. Since I’m selling more higher priced items on ebay, I didn’t want the buyer to be discouraged by a seller with a low total feedback count. I’ve always had a 100% positive feedback rating before this and I plan to maintain that rating.
Binary Dollar had an open mic question “Would You Go To Prison For One Year For $100 Million Dollars?”. Since comments are closed now, here’s my response:
Most likely not. Going to prison most likely means that you did some sort of crime or unethical activity. Living with myself knowing I robbed employees of their pension plans or whatnot is not the guilt trip the rest of my life. Then again, if it’s something like a reality show where you got the money for going to prison for a year then I’d really have to consider it. I’m sure your lifestyle would increase greatly with $100 million dollars but that means 1 year of your life away from friends, family, your kids, etc. I’d also have to refuse as one year of my youth is priceless and I definitely know it doesn’t seem so now but those things you learn with age. However if I were done with college and a little older, and the money was earned ethically… I might see the situation as similar to an overseas job (in a totalitarian country where we all wear the same spiffy outfits).
Dreaded finals o_O! ARgh
Here’s some stuff I enjoyed that might be worth checking out:
Buint Money lists the top 10 ways personal finance blogging has helped him.
A lot of times the reason for people getting into debt is their car. The cycle of debt then continues when they decide they “need” another new car. The couple over at Goodbye Debt! shows that they’re capable of making the right choices to get out of debt by buying a $400 car that runs on Craigslist.
Not made of money talks about Mother’s Day and giving something priceless: time.
The readers’ 20 best bullsh**t jobs. I’ll admit I wouldn’t mind having one of these jobs as I’m an internet addict.
Using the same link from my other post I managed to nab yet another free 2 week subscription on my existing blockbuster account.
I canceled my last 2 week trial about a month ago. Today I logged into my blockbuster account, then I went to:
http://www.blockbuster.com/signup/s/reg (copy and paste it)
and yet again, the page said “we’ve missed you blabhalbhahb, take this 2 week free trial”. So they get yet another chance to try convince me to switch over from my current Netflix account 
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BTW, Blockbuster does ship movies on Saturday so if you get in early enough today, you might get some movies shipped out. If not, wait till Monday to try this as they don’t ship out movies on Sunday and you don’t want to waste a day of your two week trial.
May 042007
Here’s the friday unwind, take a breather, laugh and live a little and enjoy the weekend!
Chuck Norris jokes are timeless. Which is why you should check out these Chuck Norris action jeans. They “won’t bind your legs”!
I’m serious thinking about changing my answering machine to this: psychiatric war answering machine
I’m also considering doing this to one of my “windows”.
Also Top 10 Strangest Deaths and 9 things I learned about the world from anonymous stock photo models
And last but not least check out this mirrored maze game. I got frustrated after 5 minutes o_O.
My total Upromise account balance stands at $5.44. However, when you figure that $5 of that was a sign-up bonus, it’s rather pathetic. $0.44 earned to date? I’m actually not surprised at all though by the lack of “savings”. Read my original post about joining Upromise back on October 7th, 2006 which discusses why I joined.
I’ve linked all my credit cards, grocery cards, etc. to Upromise… so why the lack of earnings? The explanation is plain and simple: Upromise’s reward network is rather limited. For example, most of my earnings have come from random groceries purchases that just happened to be eligible for Upromise rewards. Exxon/Mobil stations offer 1 cent reward for every gallon purchased but I never buy my gas at there because they’re generally not the cheapest.
So am I disappointed? Not at all, Upromise does work for people that actively seek out to earn the rewards. Using the cash back with online shopping, the Citi Upromise card, etc. does net you sizable rewards over time. However, if you want to build up funds a lot faster, sign-up a ton of friends and family and then have them all contribute to your beneficiary.
Peaked my curiosity, might peak yours as well. Check it out today only at thingfling.com. I ordered 2 boxes, one of which I’ll give away.
If you consider yourself somewhat responsible in managing your finances, you’ll get your credit reports from time to time. Even if you aren’t considering applying for credit, viewing your credit report lets you monitor for identity theft. Generally I always remember to get my free credit reports each year after my birthday at annualcreditreport.com. You get 1 free from each of the main bureaus per 12 months so it’s a good idea to stagger them and get one every 4 months or so.
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