Why Transparency Matters on the Web!

Why does transparency matter-ask investors of Madoff and Stanford. Why does transparency on the Web matter? Because as easy as it was for Madoff and Stanford to fool thousands of investors offline in ponzi schemes- the web makes bamboolzing regular folks like you and me a hell of a lot easier and cheaper.

Yet well known sites on the web (including a popular auction site I will not name to protect the not so innocent) are allowing thousands of mini-Madoffs to run roughshod on their site and cheat regular folks out of their hard earned money-and unlike Madoff and Stanford victims the chances of recovering anything later on is virtually nil. While nothing can guarantee that regular folks like you and me will never get screwed by an mini-Madoff or a copycat crook transparency makes a huge difference.

Had Madoff been forced to be more transparent the scheme would have been spotted fast and the victims would not be going through the utter hell they are experiencing trying to recover their money.

As Obama emphasized transparency makes a world of difference. It is a shame that many well known websites still chose to stick their head in the sand.

Stay safe my fellow Web Users:0)

Chief myabuyer

The danger of taking short cuts

I notice that a lot of businesses now more then ever are taking short cuts to make profits and meet "wall street" projections.  The buyer usually suffers. It can be as simple as the leading auction site being even more lax (if thats possible) on pirates and crooked con artists/businesses in order to collect final value fees and boost their bottom line, to tactically allowing people with bad intentions to exploit buyers that are facing difficult times, knowing that desperate people rarely spend the time to practice due diligence before dealing with a business selling and/or services.) 

It is scary to buy or trust many sources online-some questions I often ask is who are these people? are they trustworthy? Are they being paid to give "their opinion" on their experience with the business? Paying people to write "positive" things about a product, person, service, even government is common practice worldwide (including here in the U.S.) 

I am willing to bet that when myabuy.com about to be revamped and launched people used to crooked businesses and an utter lack of transparency will experience an utter breath of fresh air and start to ask the question-why the f**k am I settling for less from other sites. Why would I settle for low standards practiced by major auction sites, social networking sites that will readily let crooks, con men, and people with bad intentions run wild.

Now is not the time to settle-when you see the new and revamped myabuy.com (coming very soon) you will not have to anymore.

Till then stay safe and don't settle for less.

Peace!

Chief Myabuyer 

Mountain View, myabuy, and me!

I recently thought of moving myabuy from Mountain View to another city either in Silicon Valley or closer to San Francisco. But the more I think about it Mountain View is the best place to be in this economic climate. Google and Mountain View now have a symbiotic relationship-if Mountain View goes downhill and turns into a dangerous place filled with crack whores and gang bangers it negatively affects Google.  If Google starts to lose money this negatively affects Mountain View because they rely on Google to help build their city as the unofficial Silicon Valley headquarters. 

I am sticking to Mountain View. Google will not let Mountain View become a failed city/town filled with crime, crack whores and gang members. The cities surrounding Mountain View have no safeguard. 

Even if Silicon Valley is not perfect or filled with friendly, polite residents, the city of Mountain View is the creme of the non perfect crop- and that is worth something to me and myabuy.com.

Adios, ciao, domo, sawadee, sayonara from the Chief

Chief Myabuyer

Why do some people have trouble spelling myabuy.com?!!

I had a weird conversation with a lady in Mountain View when discussing my site myabuy.com. She misspelled the word myabuy by leaving out the letter "u". I wonder who in their right mind would name a site myaby? I mean there are some funny site names out there but myaby? That does not make sense. I fear that others will be just as silly and type myaby in the URL. I have no idea what myaby is but it is not affiliated with myabuy.com.  

That is a really annoying thing I am discovering on the web-domain squatters buying up names that sound similar to the real thing but with one or two mistyped letters-so when people type the name in URL even an accidental typo takes you to some domain parking POS garbage site that you would never choose to visit in a million years.

That is why the days of Adwords and sponsored search may be numbered. Because that sort of garbage is easy to do with adwords-buy a similar but slightly different domain name and direct all the users looking for the real site to the POS domain parking garbage one.

 Search engines make money off it, but us users end up cussing to ourselves asking why the f**k did I get directed to the POS domain parking garbage site. 

How does this make my life easier as a Internet user and consumer. It does not. The Internet was not meant to consist of POS domain parking garbage sites. No one benefits from the Internet becoming a wasteland for the domain parkers-who contribute nothing to the web except enriching the Adwords owners and the motley bottom feeders that are the domain parkers. Those that offer nothing of substance-call me old fashioned but if you have NOTHING To contribute online, don't waste my time setting up POS domain parking sites. 

I hate to think that the web is being clogged up by domain parking POS sites designed to confuse the hell out of any Internet user whose finger slips and is directed to a POS domain parking site. 

People and companies that own and profit off of domain parking are f%&king losers who deserve to have their website shut down-or at least incur fines for trying to screw Internet Users over. 

Now that I gave my 2 cents I await any comments-if anyone actually likes POS domain parking and thinks they benefit Internet Users feel free to send a rebuttal-I can always use fodder for my next blog post:)

Chief Myabuyer

Being Polite to get ahead in business and life!

I consider myself a very polite guy. Sometimes too polite for my own good. I get that from my Thai side of the family, where those who are not polite are seen in a bad light-and sometimes out casted. I know this is true for other Asian societies too. The non-polite men and women are the ones that are excluded from the social group.

Politeness is good for business-to a point. While a lot of times my politeness is out of habit-rather then due to the merit of the other party, it made me realize that politeness is bad when dealing with unscrupulous crooks-i.e. most of the early people I met while working on myabuy.com. The shittier ones I will not name here-but if you really want to know send me a comment and I will name names. 

Will my natural politeness help develop myabuy.com. I think it will-although it is tough to be polite to some of the rank jerk offs I have dealt with in the past. One such jerk off is an Indian outsourcing co. that I will not name here (I read in a recent article about the law firm suing a customer that gave them a bad review) whose owner is a grade A crook. He is the type of guy who gives outsourcing a bad name. I hate to generalize but people like him and his company deserve all the shit I plan to give them-all without having to worry about being sued for libel due to maintaining some form of politeness. It takes discipline but my experience dealing with crooks is that pursuing those that cheated you-while maintaining a polite disposition-pisses crooks off even more then just ripping into their guts and calling them all the bad names in the book (even though all are applicable.)

Politeness is hard to maintain and I keep you updated on whether my polite disposition will get me my money back from the crooked Indian outsourcing co. and the POS owner. If not I will burn them all to get the money his co. still owes me. My politeness has its limits after all:)

Best of luck and take care,

Chief-Myabuyer

www.myabuy.com