January 31, 2010
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Jewelry — Megan @ 12:44 am
I put out an ad looking for people that I could sell silver coins from my collection to. I had just moved into town and did not know too many people and saw that if someone was looking for anything in this town that it was listed in the local newspaper. I hope that someone does reply so I can sell silver coins to them to make my first month’s rent in my new apartment.
I did not get any type of response in the first seven days and really started to worry that I might get kicked out of my first place while living in this great city. I realized that I could not afford to keep the big ad going since they charged by the word so I switched the ad to sell old silver dollar. I figured that anyone who actually wanted to buy some old silver dollar coins would figure it out.
Six days later I got a call from the museum that they were responding to the sell old silver dollar ad in the paper and wanted to see what I had to offer them. They did let me know that they would only be able to offer about seventy five percent of the market value since they were putting it in the museum and not reselling it.
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January 18, 2010
The whole reason for hiring the web design company that we did, was because they were cheaper than anyone else. In fact, they were actually three thousand dollars cheaper than the other custom web design companies we called. Of course, we know now why they gave us such a great deal. I never thought that I would ever think that I could design a better site than someone who was paid to do it but now I know.
My boss called me in to his office as soon as the site went live and he decided to arrange a conference call with the web design company that had obviously no business being in the custom web design company section of the phone book. I guess that part of the blame should rest on our shoulders for looking for the lowest priced company out there and expecting top quality work. It is just not possible and we should never think that we are going to get something for practically nothing.
The owner of the web design company was not happy after learning that we had no intention of paying him for the poorly designed site and that if he tried to collect, we would sue him under false pretenses. What his company told us they would deliver is definitely not what we got.
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I have four more weeks to deal with the idiots that have been our discount office supplies provider for the past year and cannot wait until our contract with them expires at the end of the month. I found a new company while surfing the web and found that I do not have to have any type of contract with them, they ship everything to me and their prices for most of their office supplies are much lower than what I have been paying.
I am thinking of calling the new office supplies web company and find out if I can just set up a standing order for every month and then add if I need to. This way, it is just automatically shipped to my office and my secretary can just put it all away and not having the delivery guys around will be less stressful and less annoying.
If for some reason they do not let me put a standing monthly office supply order in then I will just stock up on some of the things we go through quickly from the discount office supplies company that I have now and then go from there. I figure that with the money I am saving by switching, I can afford to give my secretary a little raise to handle the ordering and putting away of the office supplies when they are delivered.
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January 13, 2010
I have been searching for just the right iron doors for my new house and I think that I have finally found them online. I may have to pay a lot of money for shipping and handling but it will all be worth it in the end when the iron doors and the new found matching iron gate is installed. I think that it will set my house apart from all the rest that are being built around us.
It seems that people these days are all drawn to vinyl doors, fencing and gates. I remember when I was a little kid and we would visit my grandparents. They had the most beautiful iron doors and iron gate that I have ever seen. I think that this may have been why it took me so long to find a design that I really liked, I wanted it to be very similar to my grandparent’s house.
My husband has laughed at me several times when our builder has shown me samples of iron doors and iron gates that he thinks I will love and yet, I always turn him down. I knew that once I saw what I was looking for, I would just know that it was right and this website that I found has proven that theory.
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January 4, 2010
The dell repair company that I use is getting better every day. I think that they used to have a turnaround time on repairs of about four to five days and now they are at two to three days. I sent them some poweredge servers that I bought from a second hand store and they had them repaired, and back to me within twenty four hours.
I read some of their testimonials also that pretty much said the same thing. Their approval rating on dell repair is something like ninety nine percent good. I would love to have that kind of approval rating at my store. I think I have too many young employees and that hurts my chances a lot.
The main reason for me buying the used poweredge servers is because a couple of my young guys were messing around in the stock room where the servers are, and knocked one off of the rack. I have had problems with that particular server since then. I had a local dell repair company look at it and they said that it was probably going to go completely out within just a matter of time. I bought the used ones since there is no way that I can afford to purchase any new ones at this time.
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