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Globe and TM subscribers can now send money to each other on Friendster using GCASH. Turn your mobile phone into a virtual wallet with GCASH and send money remittance, pay bills, and to pay for a variety of products and services. To get started, simply register your mobile number with Friendster.

What is GCASH? A related GCASH entry here.

Friendster says… GCASH is Globe Telecom’s mobile commerce service that turns your mobile phone into a virtual wallet. With GCASH, both Globe and TM subscribers can send money to other Globe and TM subscribers via text messages. GCASH can be used to send money remittance, to pay bills, and to pay for a variety of products and services.
How to use gcash on Friendster?

• First, register your Globe mobile number on Friendster by texting REG to 2276.
• Visit your home page. You’ll now see a “Send GCASH” link under “My Tools” (you must be logged into Friendster to see this).
• Click on “Send GCASH” and you’ll see a list of friends that also have enabled GCASH on Friendster. Click on the friend you’d like to send GCASH to, enter the amount and click “Send”.
• You can also send GCASH to any GCASH-enabled Globe or TM number. Click the Globe / TM number tab, enter the mobile number, enter the amount and click “Send”.
• You’ll be asked to confirm the transaction with your 4-digit MPIN. Just follow the instructions you see on Friendster, and your friend will receive GCASH from you!

What’s great with this G-Cash inside Friendster, more trade online is expected. Thereby boosting online commerce in the Philippines.

What’s not good about having a money transfer scheme inside Friendster, I am expecting the possibility of more “give-me-load, I’ll do a private web-show” modus operandi in there.

I finally got the first prize of BNSP’s, cough cough, Best Seller of the Year 2008 Contest.

The first prize is one shiny brand new Nokia N70 Music Edition cellphone. Not bad. An early Christmas gift from Buyandsellplus.com.

Other Top 5 Winners of BNSP Best Seller of the Year 2008 Promo are…

BECYPHER – Cellphone
maryjane08: Mary Jane Maulion – MP3
buyshopnet: Rose Elegino – Watch
blizzard23: Ronald Morabe – Watch
Automobilico: Catherine Luciano - USB Flash Drive

More pictures here.

Really want to thank the developers of BNSP not only for this valued prize BUT also, for giving us buyers & sellers, an avenue to trade, sell, swap all these years. Buyandsellplus.com is not your next door, fly by night website. This site has been around for quite sometime. I have been using BNSP for almost 6 years now and honestly, I got good memories and experiences using the site.

I sold hundreds of hundred of items (products from ECBUYPH.COM) using BNSP. I sold my car back in 2004 using BNSP. I met friends and business partners using BNSP. It’s at BNSP where I made my first paid internet advertisement. Buyandsellplus.com is already a part of my surfing habit.

Disclosure… we run our own classifieds site and to tell you, honestly, it aint easy and the ROI on time/money invested is not that high. Running a Philippine classifieds site is almost public service. So, to the users of Buyandsellplus.com, let’s continue to support this site. In the end, we, buyers & sellers are the beneficiaries of a successfully run classifieds site.

In all, it’s been quite a ride using the BNSP (including the bugs & downtime ). Here’s to more years of BNSP and allied sites.

From BLOZOOM and SCRED…

Now printing!!!The first and only cool tees for Multiply sellers!
We are now accepting PRE-ORDER of the cool and all-original “Check MY X Store”

With “certfied multiply seller” badge logo.

* Get your multiply into the next level.
* Be proud of your online store.
* Market your multply store the coolest way possible.
* Save a lot, make this as your Christmas gifts.
* While at it selling and earning, be hip and cool.

Available in two options:

THE BASIC – Price is P250.00. No minimum order. No customized URL. Final date of release is TBA. Now printing.

THE CUSTOMIZED – Price is P195.00. Minimum order of six (6) pieces. Included in the printis your own multiply URL… YOURNAME.multiply.com.

Isn’t that nice? Grab the coolest online multiply t-shirts you could have.

Possibly, we can have some dozens ready in time for the SMX Online Bazaar, you may want to reserve now. Also, get this in time for christmas season. Nice giveaway promo fro your friends, buyers & even your family.

(Actual size of the print is larger than the images uploaded, not smaller than 8″ wide. Will be available in white men’s tees and baby tees.)

On November 29 and 30, 2008, all roads, or shall we say, all online sellers & buyers roads, lead to Mall of Asia, SMX Exhibit floors.eComEx 2008 is the 1st Philippine eCommerce Expo – the first and the biggest annual gathering of eCommerce service providers, online sellers, auctioneers and traders.

This is the ultimate get together of Philippines’ online buyers and sellers community. Either as a visitor or an exhibitor, we here at SHOP.blink.ph will be there to join the fun.

If you would like to join the bazzar and a place in there, check out what you would get here.

Also, included in the 2 day bazaar is PiSO’s eCommerce Development Awards. Despite the non-corporate thing mentioned in the guidelines, we entered ecBuy Philippines in the contest. If you could give a little time to nominate ecBuy Philippines, under the online store, technology category, please click here…

See you all there. Our site BLOZOOM.com is excited to join the fun.

One of the sites I check during my mornings is Sulit.com.ph. Earlier today I got one hell of a scare, after I was my browser was redirected to sedo (a known domain buy & sell thing).

First thought, am I blocked or suspended again by the mighty Sulit? Second thought, was Sulit.com.ph hacked or something. Either way, not be able to access Sulit for few hours meant my stomach acting up in anxiety. We get good sales out of Sulit.com.ph and not being able to access the site is big. I asked a couple of poeple to try accessing the site, to no avail.

Here’s what we all got…

Finally, just now, the site is up again and running. I don’t know if the site is 100% fully operational. But here’s a quick info from RJ the owner…

Please be advised that there is currently a problem with Sulit.com.ph domain.

We are currently trying to resolve the issue with the domain registry of the Philippines as the nameserver of Sulit.com.ph has been changed to sedoparking.com nameservers without us changing it and without our knowledge. Unfortunately, there seems to be no support guys or anyone from domains.ph beyond the regular office hours.

Our account in domains.ph was also surprisingly non-existing and we cannot login to their system.

Sorry for the inconvenience but this is already out of our control and we will try our best to get everything back to normal and get answers from domains.ph on the details regarding why this happened. source

We got a couple of domains registered with Domains.ph too and I have some issues with them that is still pending. We’ll try to work out our domain problems with Domains.ph too and hopefully SULIT domain problem or investigation would clear up too. If there are sites in the Philippines that we can’t afford to lose, at the top of the list would be Sulit.com.

BSNP just announced a rewards promo for its users. Basically, for being active on the forums.

Free Cash Wallet Re-load – Buyandsellplus will be giving away Free Cash Wallet load for those who will be participating in our daily forums. Author’s will be given Php 25.00 worth of load per posting and Php 10.00 for members joining the discussions.

My guess is, the accumulated load (pesos) is not ‘encashable.’ Rather, the user will use his cash wallet in subscribing to BNSP’s fatured ads, hot grabs, ads services.

This cash wallet is almost same as Sulit’s SC points system. Where, at Sulit, they did not use the term “peso” as the points unit. They use SC, stand for Sulit Currency.

After the BNSP announcements, I still see few activity in their Forums. Maybe, after some days, it will fly. Lemme add, I still wonder why the forums aint that busy and buying activity cooled off. Some 3 years back, Sulit wasn’t alive then, no eBay & Auction.ph still, Buyandsellplus was kickin ass. I was able to get good sales from them. In my view, I think BNSP lost the momentum with too many & too widescale reboots, then some site bugs and then mega financed giants Auction.ph and eBay came along. Then, of course I mentioned, RJ’s Sulit with masterful SEO techniques came along.

I  still believe Buyandsellplus.com can be a factor in the Philippines online classifieds arena. It has all the functionalities of an online marketplace. It just has to have a magical marketing of some kind. (Hell, I dunno how to market, and even If I know I will not post in here but apply it on our own buy and sell site, Blozoom! Ha!)

Well, this rewards promo, best seller of the year and link exchange offering are rights steps. Goodluck to BNSP, I want more active buy & sell sites in the Philippines.

Uy, by the way, I am nominated at BNSP for best seller, becypher is the name.

Today, October 3 2008, officially marks the day the Bizikat.com opens the door, err, the servers for free business listings.

Initial information about Philippines’ BIZIKAT (pinoy business internet directory) are already posted on FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.

But time to time, we will post more about BIZiKAT developments, the future promos we’ll surely have, basics tips on how to use BIZiKAT.com and more.

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Fast times. Fast times. I remember some 2 years ago, I happened to land on Sulit.com.ph, and I quickly asked some friends and people to check it out too. I already knew this site was made ground up by one fella (well at least, sort of) but it’s has something going on. And so, I tried it. And 2 years later, I am using it and the rest of 200,000 they have got. (more…)

We are now looking for associate bloggers/writers here at Buy & Sell and Blog.

Yes, get paid while doing what you love to do, shop, sell and talk about it. Look around and see some or posts and see what types of blog entries are we looking for. See our about page too.

WHAT YOU WILL GET?

• 1$ per entry. (This is just a bonus. More important benefit of posting for us, are the links and exposure one would get.)
• Signature-Link (your website, selling site, affiliate links) of your choice per post.
• A banner of your choice (728 x 90 or 250 x 250) in rotation withour other banners.
• If you have your own blog, we’ll list you on our blog roll.
• If you sell some stuff, an instant link here.
• If you have your own site, another link here.

THE TERMS OF POSTING.

• Just send us ORIGINAL post/entries. Write meaningful, creative articles, commentaries, tutorials, reviews, etc. Send entries generally in theme with this blog. Send ONLY ORIGINAL piece, respect yourself and others as well. As the publisher, we may edit articles for conciseness and clarity.
• We will only get up to 5 writers/bloggers.
• Chosen bloggers shall give full contact details (bio-data) for future reference.
• No Employee-Employer relationship shall be born out of this program.
• Minimum posts per month shall ONLY be between 5 to 10 posts. We will not accept post that was created just for the sake of getting the minimum number of entries.
• We require certain number of words per post.
• Once submitted, paid entries are exclusive to this blog and may not be posted or printed elsewhere starting from the day it was posted up until it is 2 years old.
• We do not guarantee continuous selection/posting over a period of time. We will accept bloggers and post entries based on the following: program running cost, publishing space and our site update schedule.
• We shall edit the details of this program as required and without notice.
• We may assign bloggers/writers to certain categories to maintain the balance of the blog.

Contact us if you would like to join.

Good news to Philippine eBay sellers.

Sellers will now have easier time in paying eBay seller fees. That’s because eBay.ph will be switching all foreign billing currencies for Philippines registered sellers to the Philippine Peso by September 30, 2008. (more…)