TheWatchWorks

This picture was taken from this website:
http://www.bellmatics.com/archives/user_manual.htm

And I have included it here because some buyers think that they have bought a quartz watch that does not run. It is sometimes difficult to describe how to "wind" an automatic watch and so the best is to use this visual aid.

Hope this helps.

FOTKI - is another Image Hosting / Photo-Sharing website where you can upload your pictures and share it with the rest of the world. Although FOTKI is not new, it is not as popular as Photobucket or Flickr or Picasa Web.

FOTKI has nice tools and lots of short-cuts for "bulk-editing" which is a must for those that have lots of pictures. I am just new to FOTKI and so I found it terribly-slow when it came to uploading pictures. I do not know if the method I chose was wrong or if there was a glitch on their site during that day.

FOTKI is considered to be a "Free" Image-Hosting site although you can also upgrade to get more premium services if needed. Images can be tagged in bulk and organized into albums.

I just recently uploaded around 15 pictures of a Seiko 6105-8119 and it is easily found by just typing the word "Seiko" on the search bar.

Taken from Businessweek

News Analysis June 3, 2008, 12:01AM EST
Auctions on eBay: A Dying Breed
As consumers opt for fixed-price purchases, what happens to the company that perfected the art of online bidding—and the scores of e-auctioneers?

by Catherine Holahan

Queensland police net eBay fraudsters

June 4, 2008 - 11:28AM
http://news.smh.com.au/national/qld-police-net-ebay-fraudsters-20080604-...

Queensland police say they have tracked down 23 repeat offenders responsible for about half the state's reported fraud complaints from eBay online auction users.

Last May, the state's fraud squad launched a world-first website allowing Australian eBay customers to report online fraud.

Previously, eBay customers whose purchases did not arrive or were not what they expected could only complain to local police.

Police often found the problem could have been easily resolved between the two parties, but in cases of criminal fraud they had difficulties investigating offenders in other jurisdictions.

Police Minister Judy Spence told state parliament that under the new system, 416 matters had been reported - 60 per cent by Queensland victims about Queensland offenders.

It was a very hot day to go on tour to the Ancient City of Ephesus. That is me at the Library of Celsus.

It was so hot that my parents were enjoying themselves under an umbrella while watching the show.

My brother took our photo from high-ground...

I have only been to Rome twice and usually the first thing that we do when we get there is to visit the Fontana di Trevi or Trevi Fountain to throw a coin so that we will always be going back to Rome all the time.

My brother

My brother's wife Arlene and their daughters

At first, we thought that there was an over-reaction to the changes that eBay implemented regarding the Feedback Policy.

But now, we realize that what the super majority of the sellers fear is a reality --- that more scamming and abusive buyers will come out. And yes, we have just been victimized by this zero-feedback buyer with eBay id: laerling1

We just recently received a negative feedback from this zero-feedback scammer who ignored our eBay messages and also ignored our listing policies that we do not sell to zero-feedback buyers... for simply this reason.

Isn't it very clearly written on our eBay listings for our Vintage Watches that we will only sell to those that have at least 10 feedback? Then how did this zero feedback buyer happen?

All we could say when we went to Santorini was "Wow!"

Mykonos' "Little Venice" where we had some refreshments

That is our ship- Celebrity Cruises' Galaxy at the background

At the Windmills

Beach area

I love Washington, DC.

Outside the National Museum of Natural History

Inside the National Museum of Natural History

Three New 'Haggle' Marketplaces Hope to Unseat eBay
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
May 18, 2008

Three new entrants in the ecommerce space have rejected eBay's auction model in favor of systems that encourage haggling between buyers and sellers. And while the three sites take very different approaches, they all offer low fees and social networking components that are built in from the beginning.

Fididel actually introduces a middle-person into its ecommerce model - real-life human negotiators typing live at their keyboards. Flippid is more like a traditional bulletin board, letting buyers and sellers create and browse "BuyOff" and "SellOff" postings. Wigix takes an approach it likens to NASDAQ stock trading.

When we visited Shanghai last January, the weather was perfect. Just a light jacket would keep you warm and no matter how far and long you would walk, you will not sweat.

We like Shanghai because everything was affordable. We were shocked that the breakfast buffet at the Central Hotel was much cheaper than having breakfast in a hotel in Manila.

The Tsing Tao Beer only costs approximately US$1.20 in the hotel room. And even much cheaper when you buy it outside in those 7-11 type of convenience stores.

We chose Central Hotel because it is really "central" to the main Nanjing Road where everything opens early and then closes late. If you are on a budget like us, we would always search for the nearest McDonald's all the time. At Nanjing Road, you will find one open 24 hours.