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eBay Imposes Maximum Shipping and Other Ways To Increase FVF Fees

eBay Imposes Maximum Shipping and Other Ways To Increase FVF Fees

It looks like eBay has figured out a way to get sellers to pay a final value fee (FVF) on shipping charged for an item.  Today on their pages and in an email message sent to sellers we learn that eBay is not finished trying to alienate sellers as it tries to turn the [...]

Writing a Book Review - Your Tips and Tricks?

Writing a Book Review - Your Tips and Tricks?

I signed up to review a recently published book.  In return for my blogging about this book they sent me a copy to read.   I figured why not?  I enjoy reading, the topical content was interesting and with my summer vacation I had a bit of time that I could devote to it.   The [...]

Top 20 Productivity Articles to Organize Your Life

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The Time of YOUR Life

In each of our lives we experience “moments” that are pivotal to who we are or what we do.  Hopefully we are able to recognize these moments in our life and grab onto them and cherish them.   American Idol 2008 winner David Cook has a great song about the times in our life…
Taste every moment - [...]

My First and Last WestJet Airlines Trip

My First and Last WestJet Airlines Trip

International business travel is bad enough!   Combine that with an airline that just doesn’t seem to care about customers and consistently applies policy inconsistently and I had a week of travel nightmares on WestJet.   This Canadian airline - that models itself after Southwest Airlines, in the US has an awful lot to learn about [...]

On This Independance Day

On This Independance Day

Some words of Wisdom to all of us from a great man…
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is [...]

The Bag Tax - Good Idea?

The Bag Tax - Good Idea?

As Earth Day (04/22) approaches, the city of Seattle is making the news with their announcement this month of a PLAN to begin taxing paper and plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores.  The plan calls for a $.20 cent tax on each bag that you use.  The idea being that with the money [...]

Do We Really Need this Product?

Do We Really Need this Product?

We were looking through the current issue of Cabin Life magazine this afternoon and came across an advertisement for a P-Pak.  I couldn’t help but wonder why I would ever want or need such a product.   I went to the website in the advertisement to find out.
The following are quotes from the press release:
1. [...]

USPS Priority Mail NOT a Priority?

USPS Priority Mail NOT a Priority?

The USPS is really making it convenient for home businesses to ship items.  You print postage online, and schedule your mail carrier to pick it.  It really couldn’t be much easier…No more waiting in those long post office lines.
On March 6th I sent 4 Priority Mail packages.  Now their website clearly indicates that Priority [...]

Random Thoughts #2 - Pharmacies and Privacy

Random Thoughts #2 - Pharmacies and Privacy

I was standing in a pharmacy line yesterday waiting to pickup my prescription.  The woman at the front of the line was talking with the pharmacist and then proceeded to have a literal breakdown.   There wasn’t much about her story and her problem that those of us in line didn’t get to know by the [...]