EBAY ALTERNATIVE

Are your tired of Ebay and looking for other eBay alternative? Here is the top ten eBay competitors.

Top 10+1 Alternatives to eBay

Amazon Merchant Program
Enough said. Check out the schedule of fees for professional sellers. Even hobby sellers can get in on the action for a pittance of what eBay charges.

Overstock.com
Yes, Overstock has an auction environment, and I hear that this is now rated as a viable eBay contender.

Ubid
Although not as big as eBay, still a competitor. Worth checking out.

eBid Auctions
Another eBay competitor. I’ve picked up some disgruntled rumblings of late, but you should check this out if you are looking for some other auction home. Salehoo lists this in its list of top ten eBay alternatives.

Oztion
Based in Australia, though foreign listings allowed. No fees, though much smaller traffic and listings take longer to sell.

Bonanzle
According to my research, many sellers are having success with Bonanzle as a viable alternative to eBay.

Wild West Bids
This site is getting notice from those of you selling wild west goods and collectibles. Check it out.

Google Product Search
Not an auction site, but if you have your own website, then you definitely want to consider listing with Google Product Search. It is free to list, and you have other check-out options besides PayPal.

SellStuff!
Another Google product. Google has created an online marketplace similar to Amazon listed above. Your listings are created as product pages. SellStuff! is hosted by the Google App engine. I don’t know how effective this is, but if its Google, it is probably getting traffic. Again, other check-out options besides PayPal.

Craig’s List
I have heard some eBayers say that they do as well or better using Craig’s List for many of their auction items. One former eBayer reports that vehicles and collectibles do very well on CL.

Bluejay
I hear that this is becoming more and more popular even though its traffic doesn’t measure up to eBay; however, right now no one’s traffic measures up to eBay. Bluejay is reported to be completely (as in 100%) free and submits listings to Google Shopping.

I’m going to stop here for the moment. I know that there are other top sites, and I’ll save those for another post. So far, I’ve tried to list sites that can offer a realistic expectation of sales. There are auction sites popping up constantly on the Internet, tiny mom & pop sites that have so little traffic that I’m not sure I should bother trying to list them all. If any of you reading this post have your own auction site, please feel free to tell us about it by leaving a comment. If anyone would like to leave a guest post about eBay alternatives or even your own auction site, please contact me.

 

Bodies at West Papua barracks

Tom Allard and Dan Oakes

October 21, 2011

Photo: Reuters

Police arrest attendees of the Third Papuan People Congress in Abepura.

The discovery of two bodies behind a barracks after the bloody crackdown on an independence rally has strengthened claims by West Papuan activists that Indonesian security personnel killed protesters.

Shots were fired, activists were savagely beaten and more than 300 people arrested as Indonesian military and police dispersed several thousand delegates to the Third Papuan People’s Congress after they declared independence from Jakarta and elected a president and prime minister.

Police spokesman Wachyono confirmed yesterday two people had died and their bodies had been found behind the 172 Military Resort Office in Abepura, about 500 metres from the oval where the congress was held.

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One of the dead men was student Dani Kabepa. The other has yet to be named but was found with his security uniform stripped from his body, indicating he was a member of Petapa, the West Papuan paramilitary guard formed to protect Forkorus Yaboisembut, the man delegates elected as their leader.

Numerous witness accounts relayed how security forces rounded up prisoners, beating some savagely. There are unverified claims people were shot at point-blank range and bundled into armoured personnel carriers and other vehicles.

Mr Wachyono said 30 people had been injured in beatings that were in self-defence.

Most of those arrested have been released, but Mr Yaboisembut and his deputy Edison Waromi were still in custody.

He said shots were fired by police, but only in the air as a crowd-control tactic. ”[Security forces] had to open fire to the air as shock therapy because they were outnumbered,” he said. ”We went into congress compound only to get people who must be responsible for what they did. We didn’t go for any ordinary people.”

How the two dead died is unclear. They will have autopsies.

Activist Elias Petege said at least two people were in hospital with gunshot wounds.

”There are five people at the Dian Harapan Hospital who suffered several wounds from yesterday’s riot. Two of them got wounds from bullets.

”One is a woman, Ana Ana Adi, 41. She has got wounds at her right thigh. Pilatus Wetipo, 40, was shot in the right leg. Wiler Hobi (22) has some wounds in his head because of being beaten by the weapon, the other two have blistered wounds,” he said.

The violent end to the congress prompted calls for Australia to scrap aid to Indonesia’s military and police.

”This is the latest in a series of escalating acts of repression by the Indonesian military in West Papua,” Victorian Greens senator Richard Di Natale said.

”The Australian government cannot sit on its hands while these appalling acts continue to occur,” he said. ”The Minister for Defence should immediately announce a suspension of defence co-operation with Indonesia, until this matter is properly investigated and the [Indonesian] President has committed to open dialogue with Papuan leaders.”

West Papua’s Melanesian population has chafed at rule from Jakarta since the former Dutch colony was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 after a hotly disputed plebiscite of 1025 people.

Despite its natural resources, the region is Indonesia’s poorest, and a special autonomy deal introduced in 2001 to give it political and economic rights has mostly failed.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/bodies-at-west-papua-barracks-20111020-1ma6e.html#ixzz1bU4chjsL

A word of advice for those buying cars off Craigslist

After listening to scam victims on the radio program this evening, it would be appropriate for me to join in the conversation with some advice.

1. Please take Craigslist’s advice and deal with people locally ………..

2. Ok let’s say you meet someone locally and he/she wants to sell the car to you. What  need to transpire before there is any financial transaction.

* Make sure the Title and Bill of sale form is in the name of the person selling to you. Proof check with the person’s driving licence. Take a bill of sale form with you, just in case the person selling you the car don’t have it, you can have them fill and sign for you.

* What if the person is selling the car on behalf of others, ie death or living relative. A) If the person is death – the seller should have PROBATE document,  which is a court document  authorising the relative to sell the estate. B) If selling on behalf of a living person, the seller should have power of Attorney.

Make sure you get a copy of all the above document prior to any financial transaction, coz the DMV will need these document to register the vehicle under you name.

I hope this information will help you from being a victim of scammers.

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PNG man rescued after two week at sea

ALONE, desperate and helpless Benedict Jor sits on his upturned boat as a rescue ship draws near to rescue him after he drifted for three weeks.
The 20-year-old castaway from East New Britain had survived at first on coconuts and bananas before his tiny craft flipped over and he had to crawl on to the hull.
And there for the next two weeks he sat, hoping for rescue, turning his face to the occasional rain squall for water and eating raw fish he had managed to catch with the line he had held on to.
St Andrew Strait, just south of Manus island, was where Jor was stranded.
It was by sheer luck that he was spotted by an Australian container ship as he drifted in the St Andrew Strait off Papua New Guinea, north of the Australian continent.
The Mail Online reported yesterday that the crew of the ship Wangaratta, travelling from China to Melbourne, hauled him on board, where he burst into tears of relief.
“Thank you, thank you, I thought I was going to die,” he said in his broken English.
PNG officials have now sent a cheerful message to his family in his small village of Nonga, near Rabaul, who had feared the worst as the weeks went by without any sign of him.
Fishermen from Papua New Guinea frequently run into trouble when they put out to sea in flimsy wooden boats powered by worn-out motors.
Jor had set out from his village to fish for tuna, but a change in wind and currents swept his boat out to sea and after several days drifting the craft flipped over in choppy seas.
“Several boats passed by but they did not see me,” Jor told his rescuers.
Jor was treated in the ship’s hospital for hypothermia, dehydration and shock and it is now planned that the vessel will take him from Melbourne to Sydney, where he will pass through immigration and where consular officials will arrange for him to be flown home.

Source : National News 09/09/10 http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/12441

Wafinduo may your soul rest in peace

A young man with great pontential was murder by some sick animals who cannot be tamed.

By TODAGIA KELOLA

THE murder of a senior public servant in Port Moresby’s Gerehu suburb after a peace mediation meeting has raised tension between two ethnic groups.
Director of acquisition in the customary lands division of the Lands Department, Jacob Waffinduo, was killed, allegedly by Engans, after a meeting between his people from the East Sepik Province and the Engans on Sunday went wrong.
Gerehu police could not give the full details of the murder but station commander Steven Kapera said the two groups had met without informing his station on Sunday over a traffic accident last year where a girl from East Sepik was killed in an accident allegedly caused by the Engans.
“They were there to discuss and come up with a figure for compensation for the death of the girl from East Sepik but something must have gone wrong during their meeting resulting in the killing,” said Mr Kapera.
His men are investigating the killing and he has appealed to the Engans to come forward with information so that those responsible can be dealt with by the law.
Meanwhile, Secretary for Lands and Physical Planning Pepi Kimas has condemned the killing, describing it as the work of “sick animals”.
He said the nation’s capital is where people from all backgrounds and ethnical groups should work and live together as neighbours and not as enemies.
Mr Kimas said whatever the reason, no one had any power and or right to take someone else’s life.
“The country through its many agencies has provided avenues to address any issue. Killing a father and husband and person with many relatives is not the solution to addressing a problem,” he said.
“This act itself is that of animals without the reasoning power to differentiate the wrong from the right.
“The society does not need them and therefore cold blooded murderers should be condemned and locked up forever.”

PNG’s notorious criminals on the loose

Papua New Guinea’s most-dangerous criminals have escaped from the country’s highest maximum security unit at Bomana jail.  The National reports.
The 12 prisoners included three who are on death row, a serial rapist and William Kapris, the mastermind in a series of armed bank robberies.
Click image for enlarge view of the photo identity of the prision escapees

Airport shut down by incompetent TSA authorities after jars of honey thought as explosives

 

As we head towards the end of time, Satan is using every agencies to brainwash people using the extreme fear techniques. The TSA, in other words, is just a vehicle by which people can be programmed to kowtow to the herd mentality. Fear originating from the emotional brain(Lymbic system) can at times alter ones cognitive brain(cerebral hemisphere). No wonder TSA staff smell honey to be boom chemicals.

Click here for the Reuter’s article or see  extract below.

By Dan Whitcomb and Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Authorities shut down a California airport on Tuesday after a suspicious amber liquid in a passenger’s bag tested positive for explosives — only to ultimately determine that the substance was honey.

Francisco Ramirez, a 31-year-old gardener who had been visiting family in the central California city of Bakersfield, was allowed to return home to Milwaukee.

“The substances in the bottles did turn out to be honey. They tested negative for all explosives and narcotics. It is nothing but honey,” FBI spokesman Steve Dupre told Reuters.

The security scare came as jitters gripped the U.S. travel industry in the aftermath of an unsuccessful Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound commercial flight from Amsterdam using explosives smuggled on board.

Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Los Angeles, was shut down and evacuated for hours and flights diverted after the incident, which began when Ramirez’ bag set of an alarm in a luggage-screening machine.

U.S. Transportation and Security administration screeners turned up five Gatorade bottles full of what they called a “suspicious-looking liquid.” Swabs of the bag and bottles tested positive for the explosives TNT and TATP.

When the bottles were opened, two of the screeners smelled a strong chemical odor, complained of nausea and were rushed to a local hospital, where they treated and released, Kern County Sheriff’s spokesman Michael Whorf said.

Kern County Sheriffs deputies, fire crews, FBI agents and members of a “joint terrorism task force” responded to the scene and spent the day questioning Ramirez before further tests showed that the liquid was honey.

After the all clear was given, officials said they were trying to determine why the honey tested positive for explosives and made the screeners so ill that they would need medical attention.

“There are some questions I think are going to have to be followed up on,” Dupre said. He said that Ramirez was “free to go” and would likely be home in Milwaukee by Wednesday.

Ramirez, who Whorf described as “very cooperative,” had originally been booked on a flight from Bakersfield to Milwaukee with a connection through San Francisco.

In an unrelated incident halfway across the country on Tuesday, a bomb-sniffing dog detected what was thought to be explosives in a piece of luggage at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, prompting an evacuation of a terminal and delayed flights there.

No explosives were found in the bag. (Editing by Alan Elsner)

Bonds

Germany Reaffirms Sunday Law

By M2O

Members of the German Constitutional Court ruled on December 1 that Berlin must abide by the law instituting Sunday as a day of rest.
Coincident with the enacting of the Lisbon Treaty/EU constitution on December 1, Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the nation’s capital must, like the rest of the country, abide by the law instituting Sunday as a day “of rest from work and of spiritual improvement. Click here  for the news article.

Although Germany is not mention in bible prophecy, it is just a test run to see how the world will react when America enforce Sunday Law.

Sunday enforcement is a biblical prophecy that will be fulfill as predicted in Daniel and Revelation. Some more insight of this issue can found in the book Great Conterversy by E G White and the book The National Sunday Law by A. Jan Marcussen

Easy Google Profit and other work from home Scams

By M2O

In these tough economic times, many unemployed Americans and are desperate for a job or an opportunity to earn a little extra money to pay their bills.  Not surprisingly, it is also when scam artists come out of the dark to prey on innocent consumers.  The latest work-at-home scheme proliferating on the internet is “Easy Google Profit.”  Typically, consumers surfing the internet will click on the link “Easy Google Profit” while reading — what they later find out to be — a fake newspaper article or advertisement.  The link directs consumers to a work-at-home scam, where they unwittingly sign up and their credit or debit cards are charged a fee.

One such scam email got into my inbox today. I glance through the fake US weekly news article and I found so many red flags. Here is the link http://online-us-weekly.com/. The URL is not USA weekly’s URL and also the weather forecast is not correct. The google adsence is a snip paste image link to scammer’s site asking for your credit card info. This web domain registered under Gandi in France so beware. Click the fake USA weekly news article below for enlarge view.

A word of caution to cyber audience. In a world of information technology at your fingure tip, make an inform decision by doing some research before jumping on the scammer’s boat.

Pacific Tsunami

The diaster to some of us its just another news, but the victims it’s call for help. Donation can be made to official site Help Samoa

By Baris Atayman

SIUMU, Samoa (Reuters) – Relief workers in American Samoa and Samoa searched for survivors on Thursday after a series of tsunamis smashed into the tiny Pacific islands, killing more than 100 people, flattening villages and leaving thousands homeless.

Television images showed homes ripped apart, cars submerged in the sea or lodged in trees and large fishing boats hurled ashore by the waves generated by an 8.0 magnitude earthquake southwest of American Samoa, a U.S. territory.

Some victims were washed out to sea by waves that reached at least 6 meters (20 feet) high.

At least 83 people were killed in Samoa, with no clear picture of how many were still unaccounted for, Asuegalia Mulipola, assistant chief executive of Samoa’s Disaster Management Office, told Reuters.

Mulipola said at least 170 to 180 people were injured, with a more complete toll expected later in the day.

Togiola Tulafono, governor of American Samoa, said at least 24 people were killed there and 50 injured, with the southern portion of the main island of Tutuila “devastated.” The toll may rise as rescuers search buildings, including a seniors’ center.

Officials in the neighboring island nation of Tonga confirmed seven people killed there and three missing. The two Samoas and Tonga have a combined population of about 400,000 people and rely on subsistence agriculture, fishing and tourism.

The wave came about 200 meters (656 feet) onshore, destroying everything in its path, said Tim Wimborne, a Reuters photographer traveling on the south coast of Upolu in Samoa.

“Where it has come in, it’s devastated the place, snapping trees off at the bases, houses are gone, foundations moved and concrete walls pushed over,” he said. “There’s nothing left standing at all.”

3,000 LEFT HOMELESS

Locals were beginning to clean up, searching the tangle of wreckage along the coastline for their possessions, Wimborne said. The work of shifting heavy debris such as roofs and walls was being done by hand, with little heavy machinery available.

Radio New Zealand, quoting Samoan disaster authorities, said 32,000 people were affected by the tsunami, with some 3,000 left homeless.

A second earthquake, of 7.9 magnitude, hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra late on Wednesday, prompting the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami watch for Indonesia, India, Thailand and Malaysia.

The prime minister of Samoa, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, said the death toll in his nation was expected to rise.

“It was fortunate … the tsunami struck when it was daylight and the tide was also low,” he told Reuters. “If it had come in the dark and the tide was high, the number of people who died would be much higher.”