• Journal

    Posted on September 13th, 2008

    Written by Scott Fillmer

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    Our 1979 Morgan Out Island 33 Moves on to New Owner // Sold

    Our 1979 Morgan Out Island 33 Moves on to New Owner // Sold

    Today we have officially moved on to a new chapter in our leisure time life.  We have sold our sailboat in Orange Beach, the 1979 Morgan Out Island 33 which we bought in Tampa in April of 2007.  We had big dreams for this particular sailboat (over the other two sailboats we have owned) but [...]

  • Journal

    Posted on July 14th, 2008

    Written by Scott Fillmer

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    Our Bus Conversion MCI MC-9, Detroit Diesel 6V92, Allison Transmission

    Our Bus Conversion MCI MC-9, Detroit Diesel 6V92, Allison Transmission

    For more reasons than can be expressed, we are selling our bus that we called home for more than 5 years. It has been up in Colorado for the last two years and needs a new home. Below is how it was listed on eBay. It was a successful auction and the [...]

  • Journal

    Posted on June 3rd, 2008

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    1979 Morgan Out Island 33 Sailboat in Orange Beach // For Sale

    1979 Morgan Out Island 33 Sailboat in Orange Beach // For Sale

    This is probably the saddest post I could make on this blog but we have come to the decision that we can not keep up with our house here and the boat we love down at the coast.
    I will be posted more photos and information as time goes on but you can look through this [...]

  • Media

    Posted on April 1st, 2008

    Written by islandzephyr

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    eBay Partner Network Affiliate Replaces CJ

    Today eBay announced the official opening of the eBay Partner Network (or EPN) which, in 30 days no less, will replace Commission Junction as the sole affiliate program for eBay.
    For those casual users of the eBay affiliate program, the email this morning might come as a bit of a surprise but they have been working [...]

  • Media

    Posted on October 26th, 2007

    Written by islandzephyr

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    How to Make Money Drop Shipping on Amazon or eBay

    How to Make Money Drop Shipping on Amazon or eBay

    Are you tired of competing with a drop shipper or drop shipping company that does not ever touch the product, house, or package the product, seems to sell more, and make more money than your competing businesses? You probably are if you are a company that spends time finding wholesalers, buying inventory, cataloging, indexing, [...]

  • Media

    Posted on October 10th, 2007

    Written by islandzephyr

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    eBay Opens the Neighborhoods

    eBay just announced (see announcement) that it has opened the eBay Neighborhoods. From what I can tell this is eBay’s latest attempt to break into the social networking or bookmarking market area. It looks to be a combination of MyBlogLog, MySpace, and every other social networking site, while including links to their guides [...]

  • Media

    Posted on October 9th, 2007

    Written by islandzephyr

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    eBay Admits Hacker Suspended Accounts

    eBay on Friday announced that a known fraudster, Vladuz, managed to hack into an old administrative menu system on eBay and suspended several eBay accounts. Actually, they specificall said he DID NOT hack in to any of eBay’s systems, but rather “he did this by accessing externally visible servers” said eBay spokeswoman Sharpe. [...]

  • Media

    Posted on October 5th, 2007

    Written by islandzephyr

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    eBay Buys Auction Management Company Afterbuy

    eBay announced today that they are buying Aftebuy, a German auction management company. It has been interesting to watch over the last few years what companies eBay has merged with, purchased, or taken over. One comes to mind, Skype, that really didn’t seem to take hold, but did cost a bundle, something like [...]

  • Media

    Posted on October 4th, 2007

    Written by islandzephyr

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    eBay PayPal and Yahoo Join Forces

    To fight phishing emails. It seems that the three companies came to an agreement (perhaps not quite as hard for ebay and paypal since they are both owned by eBay but who knows) to fight the phishing email problem that ebay users are constantly bombarded by from the moment they join. I use [...]

  • Media

    Posted on September 26th, 2007

    Written by islandzephyr

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    Facebook Application Logbook Sold on eBay

    This is the first Facebook application put out by this company called Nothing Original and it sold on eBay (see listing here) for $2500, called Logbook. It makes use of the Amazon affiliate program along with Google Adsense, and allows Facebook users to add movies, books, and music to their reviewed items. This [...]