PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT : New changes to Ebay= Sellers should avoid EBay like the plague!

Ebay is great to buy on, and while for now is still the biggest market for buying and selling, it has increasingly become horrible to sell on, and very antagonistic to sellers.

Their new payment management changes for sellers includes potentially some truly onerous fine print. Perhaps the most unacceptable of which is the following passage:

Buying or selling outside of eBay

If you offer or reference your contact information or ask a buyer for their contact information in the context of buying or selling outside of eBay – opens in new window or tab, you’ll be charged a final value fee based on the total amount of the sale even if your item doesn’t sell. In this situation,

Now I get and agree that Sellers should not be actively trying to divert Ebay traffic and potential sales off Ebay, however a lot of established and reputable sellers list items on multiple sites, and the first one to sell is the first one to sell. Now with Ebay’s above stated policy, even if you end up selling the item through your own web page first, and Ebay discovers it, they will charge your checking account, as if you sold it on Ebay!!

WTF????

A seemingly punitive measure for you to sell on Ebay only. What moron thought of this?! You’re going to charge people for your site failing to be the first to sell the item??!!

Also if a Buyer opens a dispute, which unfortunately happens to the best of sellers, and the seller loses the dispute (which also happens to the best of sellers) Ebay has the following onerous policy change:

Dispute fee

If you are found responsible for a disputed amount as per eBay policies – opens in new window or tab (e.g., chargeback), we charge a $20.00 dispute fee, excluding sales tax, for each dispute.

WHAT?? No Thank you Ebay.

I stopped selling on Ebay a long time ago, even before these absurd policy changes. Now as a seller, I would never sign onto Ebay with their current seller-hostile policies.

In closing, Ebay is still a great place to Buy, but I see that changing as more and more sellers jump ship to find a less onerous company and platform to deal with.

 

 

In WordPress how to EASILY Use Classic Editor over their garbage new Gutenberg Editor!

It took me 30 minutes, and lots of surfing and viewing unhelpful youtube videos till I found a simple way to get back to the Classic editor screen.

First all the hacks about installing the classic plugin do not work, because you now have to PAY to install plugins. That is a big no-no for me.

So how do you get back to classic editing, without having to pay to install the classic plugin?

All of you need to THANK— Writer Extraordinaire, Derrick Ferguson, for you being able to view these easy steps!!!

Show your thanks by running over and picking up….

 

If the above books are not in your library already, click on the images above to correct that gross oversight immediately! You’ll thank me later. 🙂 .

Okay, on to the tip.

To avoid wordpress’ default AWFUL editor and get back to the old classic editor FOR FREE, at the time of this writing, you can do the following:

 

 

 

When you login to your WordPress.com site on the left hand menu bar, under MY SITE, select WP ADMIN.

 

That will then bring up the above looking screen. Select ALL POSTS.

 

 

At the top of the page that comes up you will see POSTS: ADD NEW. Use the drop down menu and switch it from BLOCK to CLASSIC EDITOR. TADA!!! You now can use the functional and much easier to use CLASSIC EDITOR!!!  Hair Pulling and Gnashing of teeth averted.

 

So if you have found this post useful, click the links above and support, as well as liking this post, and subscribing!!! Till next time… Be non-Trumpian!!! 🙂 . Yes I did just go there!!! 🙂 .

 

Today’s Vetted Amazon Purchases! Gift Ideas!

Today’s Vetted Amazon Purchases! Gift Ideas!

Everyone knows, just like Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB or any other site, Amazon is subject to a lot of fake reviews.A lot of those 4 and 5 star products when you take the time to do the research are junk. Puffed up with scam bot reviews.

This new segment is designed to help you find only the products that have been vetted or checked to have a reliability rating of over 70%. Meaning at least 70% of the reviews are accurate, as well as checking if the company as a whole has an abundance of reliable or scammed/generated reviews.

Without further ado today’s recommended low cost sub $100 tablet. This is for someone who wants a 2nd tablet for non-intensive tasks such as security cam checking or ‘digital frame’ usage or other very casual surfing.

You have lots of mostly Chinese made items in the sub $100 market to choose from. The ones with decent reviews, if you take the time to research, 9 out of 10 are fabricated reviews.

I’ve done the research to find that one out of ten low cost sub $100 tablet that is worth your time (along with the needed memory card). Below is one that has a predominance of reliable reviews:

 

The HOOZO TABLET 10.

I never heard of this tablet before today. But I was looking for a tablet that would do cellular, that is a lot better than the limited options the cellular provider was offering.

And as I mentioned in this range the market is almost exclusively Chinese made products, due to American big business willingness to dismantle domestic operations to outsource everything to the lowest bidder. And Chinese products are often viewed with a certain amount of dubiousness, and unfortunately when it comes to products China exports there have been numerous documented reasons for this outlook.

Whether it is a matter of varying degrees of quality, sub par build due to making tight margins, or orchestrated malfeasance all of these things have been documented when it comes to Chinese products exported to US shores. And again I’m not blaming the Chinese, I’m blaming short sighted American policy, that has in the last few decades dismantled the idea of local autonomy and creation and putting us at the mercy of the lowest common denominator mentality; unchecked capitalism, being indistinguishable from unchecked tyranny.

All that to say, when it comes to products you are putting in your home, you have to use more than usual diligence. The China made Wyse security cameras that everyone is racing to put in their homes and laud for its features ( which I admit are impressive) has perhaps a glaring issue. The same issue that a lot of devices have, but turned up a few notches. The security camera, may actually be invading your security. But that is an article for another day, but it is in the reviews if you take the time to look.

Anyhow, yes when it comes to products from China, you of course will have great products and great companies. The job is finding them.

That brings us to the HOOZO 10 Tablet.

This one checked all the boxes and was way  higher on the reliability scale than the tablets being offered by my cellular provider. And ever since that scandal a few years ago with cellular providers installing hardware back-doors into the devices they sold consumers, I’ve always preferred to bring my own device to a cellular provider.

So this tablet at a sub $100 price, is not going to replace your main machine, but as a secondary or dedicated machine for browsing device or gaming device  to free up your main device to be exclusively for more sensitive transactions (if you are using your phone to do purchases,and or banking, or secure email, you should not have game apps, or cooking apps, or puzzle apps, etc on it, that is where this secondary device comes in).

This machine is to help you avoid the  ‘one ring that rules them all’ point of failure or security breach.

Get yours here:

https://amzn.to/2TMmIeK

AEGO 64gb Micro SD Card microSD Memory Card UHS-1 Class 10 for Kindle Fire/Tablets/Dash Cam/GoPro with Free Adapter (U1 64GB)

 

 

AEGO 64gb Micro SD Card microSD Memory Card UHS-1 Class 10 for Kindle Fire/Tablets/Dash Cam/GoPro with Free Adapter (U1 64GB)

https://amzn.to/2JVba9F

I had started my search for 64gb Micro Sd cards, by checking out the usual players first Kingston, Samsung, etc. After digging into the reviews I wasn’t happy with what I was seeing. I then found this unknown to me company AEGO, with a very striking visual design, and much to my surprise they had great pricing AND RELIABLE reviews! More reliable than some of the big names in the field. Add to that there is not often you pick up a micro SD card and give any thought to how beautiful it is, AEGO gets props for making a very utilitarian item such as an SD card, look like a work of art.  My vote… pick it up.

Use this link to check it out. If you decide to pull the trigger you will earn a few pennies for this site which I will be grateful for. It helps me to keep producing more content like this. Share the link and spread the word. Without further ado, the link:

https://amzn.to/2JVba9F

 

So yeah guys, I hope you found this post helpful. Took me a few hours to do the research and put the post together, so if you enjoyed the post definitely use the links, like the article, spread the word. Till next time…

Be Well.

Worst Roku Streaming VOD Channel of the Day : GRINDHOUSE Channel

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GRINDHOUSE CHANNEL by Developer Xaphan Entertainment LLC- Supposedly a free Roku Channel, when you actually try to watch something what it really does is flood you with ads prior to giving you an unremovable option to install their paid channel. So the free programming never comes up.

Just a horrendous excuse for a channel. First the ads should come up a good 20 minutes into the film you have seolected, not prior to it, and the forced prompt to their paid channel and delays is inexcusable. Avoid this channel at all costs.

They have a website, but their site is as unhelpful and difficult as their channel. Grade:Worthless, and a waste of time.