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This book isn’t mine 6th February 2008

Easy Way to Stop SmokingI got a book some time last week. It has my name and address on it. It is from Christchurch. Initially I thought it was a book sent from someone from Trade Me, a mistake. I soon realised it wasn’t, as none of the sellers I had recently traded with were from Christchurch. It gets weirder: The sender’s surname is Mozgov, the stamp was placed in the top-left corner of the envelope, the handwriting contains a mixture of upper and lower-case characters and the book is entitled “Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking” — yet no one in my family, let alone myself smokes.

I’ve decided to re-sell this gift from this mysterious man, to make a profit. I predict it will go for a sound $12 NZD.

Update: Damn, I found the owner.

A lengthy 6 months later 28th December 2007

A new site, a shiny-new Wordpress platform, a new web domain and new content to come (none of those cruddy ‘I hate life’ blog posts). Above all, this site will be much more informative, interesting and coolsome to browse through.

Indeed, this was a crazy hiatus - many things happened while I was hibernating: two sets of exams, my birthday, public holidays; including: labour day and Christmas, and soon enough, we’re going to hit the new year. Being away for such a long time is some-what justified - I’ve been developing this site of course! However, the viewer-base has dwindled since I didn’t post anything so basically I have to regain my audience (which I plan to do by spamming these linky site things).

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Oh no! 31st October 2006

Dear Ben,

We notice that you have been listing your contact details in your member profile on Trade Me.

As stated in our terms and conditions members are not allowed to list their contact details on the site - including in your profile.

We’ve removed your profile so you can create a new one that complies with our rules. If you list your contact details again your profile will be permanently removed and your membership may be disabled.

Regards,

Trade Me Support
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Quick Navigation Bars 11th October 2006

I laugh at NZ Herald’s feeble attempt the copy Trademe’s navigation bar thing. Looks shoddy, and you can no-doubtly tell it is an attempt to mimic - they even used Wises as a link to a map site as an alternative to Trademe’s recently released Smaps site.

I also found an error in Trademe’s bar. The last listing option mouse-overs to an orange colour, but the other ones don’t. I emailed them - I hope I get credit for being such a good spotter-er, like money credited to my Trademe account.

Successful Trademe Auctions 19th August 2006

I would like to share the good news that the Trademe auctions were highly successful and the [Ben].Clan received a huge boost to their funds. The graphics card sold for $74 and the motherboard sold for $40.

After the auction finished, I discovered that people started to mimic my auctions and they did not succeed. Here’s one here - just as well it only sold for $5.50 as the whole auction was nearly a replica of mine; he even copied my catch phrase.

Today, I saw my graphics card I sold relisted: here. The exact same one. Hope he doesn’t get as good-a-price as I got.

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