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Some notes I got while reading a Craiglist article.

• You know this already, but Craig Newmark founded Craigslist.
• Craiglist is often blamed by print newspapers for declining newspaper ads business. (This is equivalent to someday having Manila Bulletin blaming Sulit.com.ph for a loss of ads revenue. I have a separate blog entry about another sold item via Sulit. I sold my car via sulit. Check later.)
• Craiglist is the 7th most popular site in the US of A. (more…)

Buy evidence of my husband’s adultery on eBay

An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by putting a photograph of his lover’s underpants up for sale on the auction site eBay.

In the listing the woman says she is selling a picture of a pair of lacy black knickers and an empty condom wrapper “size small” found in her bed after her husband had an affair with another woman.

The seller — identified on eBay only as annastella007 — provides a rather unflattering description of the knickers.

“They are so huge I thought they may make someone a nice shawl or, even better, something for Halloween perhaps.”

The eBay listing, entitled “Empty condom packet & a photo of ‘The Tart’s’ knickers,” also includes a detailed account of the events leading up to the discovery.

Complete story here.

How to make money buying and selling on Sulit.Com.Ph

Sulit.com.ph offers a uniquely Filipino approach to online trading and advertising. This website is a free advertising service very much like Buy and Sell Philippines where members can post different items and services for sale. For those who are looking for faster and easier means of finding items selling for lesser costs, sulit.com.ph is the place to go to. Using sulit.com.ph is similar as placing an ad on Buy and Sell Philippines magazine for free. Sulitizens, as members of the website are fondly called, need to register themselves as members and can be advertisers, clients, or both. Once registered, new sulitizens can now avail of the many services that can be found on sulit.com.ph.

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Many marketing professionals are used to significant marketing campaigns. From full page ads to online micro-sties, integrated marketing approaches can burn through your budget very quickly. With advances in online marketing, effective campaigns don’t have to break the bank. In fact, you can accomplish many of your sales and marketing objectives for pennies on the dollar.

Online classified advertising is a great way to promote your product or service – virtually for free. With popular online classified websites like Craigslist and USfreeads this type of advertising is very low cost. Even large sites like Yahoo now offer their very own version of online classified ads. I recently came across second tier sites that offer the same service as Craigslist without the limitation of advertising for a specific city only or ads that expire after seven days.

With the expansion of internet classifieds, more and more consumers are finding what they need quickly and easily online. You can become a part of the online advertising opportunity simply by visiting one of these online classifieds websites and registering. After completing a short registration form you will be asked to post your ad. Some boards allow you to include a complete description, contact information, and a product photo.

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Old news but still a fine read…

Selling Internet job listings in booming Asia seems like a cinch. But it was Mark Chang’s caution that’s made JobStreet a success.

When Malaysian Mark Chang started online job-listing company JobStreet in 1997, he figured it would earn him a regular paycheck and allow him to be his own boss, but he didn’t expect anything more. “I really thought it would be a mom-and-pop kind of thing,” he says. Fast-forward ten years: JobStreet is now Southeast Asia’s largest online employment company. It’s growing in Hong Kong and India, and it’s entered Japan.

The company, whose clients include the likes of Dell, Siemens and Canon, serves more than 45,000 employers and 4 million registered job seekers. Asia’s sizzling growth has meant plenty of business in industries from banking to manufacturing desperate to fill jobs. “When the economy is strong, companies need to keep expanding, so we get a lot of companies coming back to us,” says Chang. “When the unemployment rate in Singapore, for example, dips so low, companies must look outside of Singapore for labor. A company like us, on the Internet, can reach out to Malaysia, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and tap job seekers across the region.”

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The National Bureau of Investigation filed charges against three people, including two alleged US Marines, who purchased high-end electronic gadgets from an online auction and shopping website using fake bank checks.

Charged at the Department of Justice with estafa (fraud) for using falsified documents and assault upon persons of authority were Robert Andrew Hornick, an American national, and Filipino-Americans Virgil Anthony Pineda and Reynaldo Lumbo Jr. All were residing in Pampanga.

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eBay won a landmark case over Tiffany. Story here.

A sigh of relief by third party marketplace sites like, eBay, Sulit.com and BLOZOOM.com could be heard. Tiffany sued eBay, claiming that eBay is not doing anything about the rampant counterfeit Tiffany goods being auctioned. But court says, oh no no no. Court ruled, brand owners are ultimately responsible for protecting their own trademarks.

Read the news link above.

Side note… I remember last year my sister doled out P25000 or so for 5 pcs of Tiffany Goods. Supplied by one dealer she knows renting a space at BIG BIG MALL. After few months, the shiny silver began to fade. Fake alert. BTW, she didn’t get it from eBay but from a MALL. Should Tiffany Philippines or y sister sue the Mall? From above ruling, I guess Tiffany should go after the seller and not the marketplace.

Bow!

eBay is looking to provide support for Filipino developers who can create promising applications running on its marketplace, a top regional executive said.

eBay recently announced it is opening up its portal to third-party application developers, a move similar to that made by social networking site Facebook and online software provider Salesforce.com.

Full article here.

Steve Garton, global media head of Synovate International, speaking at the World Marketing Conference Friday, said the reluctance of local advertisers to invest in online ads is a failure to research the potential of new forms of media and the needs of their own customers.

“There’s a major payoff for those who are brave enough to identify the opportunities presented by new media because they get first-mover advantage. Holding back means you could be an also-ran instead of being an innovator and that talks about the status of your brand as well,” Garton said in an abs-cbnNEWS.com interview.

Full read here.