Ebay
February 11, 2007
Suzanne has taken again to putting a bunch our old stuff up for auction on Ebay. I say old stuff because some of it is still pretty good stuff, but we just dont use it.  She has a stack of stuff to get up over the next few weeks.
Recently, she has put a bunch of old clothes of Savannah’s up for auction on Ebay.  They dont fetch very much, mabe $5 or $10, but add in shipping and a bit of quantitiy and it starts adding up. She recently sold some gnome statue piece of junk and got almost $40 for it. I wouldnt have given a second thought to throwing it in the garbage.
She also recently sold my old Franklin Mint Civil War chess set. It’s a nice set, but we have like 5 and I dont have time for Civil War stuff like I used to. We were pleasantly surprised when it sold for over $150. We got a prompt payment from the guy and she shipped it off. Unfortunately, 3 of the pieces arrived in a broken condition – gonna have to get Suzanne to work on those packing skills. The shipment was insured, so we will likely be filing a claim with the postal service. The guy receiving the shipment has been pretty good about it. We still need to resolve this one.
Now, she just needs the time to list the rest of the stuff gathered up. We have things like an nice old mp3 player, lots of old xbox and xbox 360 games, more Civil War paraphenalia. There is also some more old kids clothes. We are trying to get things straigntend up around the house. Suzanne is a pack rat and I think she is finally ready to part with stuff that never sees daylight. We wont get rich on Ebay, but the occasional bits of income will pay for a dinner or two out.
Technorati Rankings
February 3, 2007
Mr Papa’s World and most of my other sites are all claimed as blogs over at Technorati. For grins, I thought I would pass along my current ranking there as blogs go.
Currently, Mr Papa’s World has a blog ranking of about 174,000. I dont fully understand how they calculate that ranking, but it’s based somewhat on other sites that link back here to my site and folks that come to Mr Papa’s World from Technorati. When I first launched Mr Papa’s World, it ranked about 1.5 million.
Our best site is Cruise Talk Central, which ranks in at about 40,000. Actually, thats currently down from its best ranking of about 34,000. I guess there is a lot of other folks like us that like to cruise.
A couple of my other sites, Sonoita Singer and Sonoita Web, currently rank about 1.6 million, so not a whole lot of traffic and interest in those guys right now.
Also, I recently posted about spam attacks on this site. Today, was a larger than normal day. Bad Behavior seemed to take the day off and caught next to no one. But then there was Akismet to the rescue as it caught about 2500 attempted spam comments today. Luckily, not a single one ended up making it to visibility on the website. Spammers be gone!
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