Death to eBay, Long Live StubHub

Did you know that eBay users can retract their bids? Yeah, it blew me away too except I found out the hard way. Recently I purchased season tickets to the Washington Capitals, and as a bonus, I was given the option to purchase additional reserved tickets to the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Hoping to make some money back from my $3000+ purchase, I put a set of such tickets on eBay. The auction received a handful of bids as the Capitals battled the Fliers in what would be a seven game series. The tickets listed were to a game late in the series, and at the time, things were looking bleak after the Caps returned home on a sad note after dropping a game in Phillthy. The auction ended the day before the game, but when I checked to see who had won, I noticed the number of bids had actually gone down. Read more

Day 5 of Trip - Last Day in San Francisco

It’s fitting that my time exploring the hills of San Francisco had its ups and downs. I had some bad days and I had some good days,but they balanced out and resulted in a richer and more impacting experience. I think when given a choice, most people would prefer a life of good and bad over a life of routine indifference. It reminds me of something a professor and friend of mine once asked, “Who wants an easy life?” Read more

How to Buy Stuff Cheaper Online

Shopping “in-store” or “brick and mortar” retail will likely exist only as a memory at some point in our (my) lifetime. The only occasions I find myself in a store is when I’m grocery shopping, looking for clothes, or for the sake of entertainment. Still, it seems there are parents and other people out there that stay away from online retail, turned-off by shipping costs and afraid of identity theft. With the abundance of resources and retail competition online, reward greatly outweighs risk, making shopping elsewhere seem like a waste of money. In the 21st century, being a smart consumer is knowing where and how to look for the cheapest price online. Read more

Match.com… Like to Pay for Sausage Parties?

The purpose of my writing this is to hopefully help some lonely young lovers save their money and invest in themselves. Additionally, it’s a way for me to get back at these companies by publicly documenting how both are ineffective and how Match.com just simply ripped me off.

People are generally embarrassed to reveal that they subscribe to a matchmaking site for the same reasons many fear taking-out, or even responding to a personal ad in a newspaper. It is these same insecurities that these companies manipulate to take the customer’s money and fail to deliver their promised level of service. Read more