If you bid for a few things on eBay, the chances are that sooner or later you’ll end up getting your bid beaten at the very last second by a ‘sniper’. This can be a frustrating experience, and while in theory sniping is against the rules and you can report it to eBay, in practice […]

Ever since we had products for sale in the offline world, we had sales agents. You know the ones – the multi-product travelling sales “reps” carrying products and business cards from different manufacturers. They made sales without having to carry inventory, handle payments, and sign contracts. Their focus was to make the sale by getting […]

© Jim Edwards – All Rights reserved http://www.thenetreporter.com-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Despite the fact that Federal legislation (the CANSPAM act) made it illegal, harvesting email addresses from the web using automated robots remains alive and well. Spammers who need fresh email addresses release software spider programs that comb the Internet and suck email addresses off Web pages, guest […]

(c) Jim Edwards – All Rights reserved===================================== Online security is one of the top catch phrases these days, but hardly anybody knows what it means and worse, most home computer users think security only applies to corporations and online businesses. Most people think online security means simply protecting your credit card data from fraud and […]