Internet

Star Doll – perfect for perverts everywhere

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If you’ve ever wanted to strip Natalie Portman down to her panties and then choose an outfit for her not to wear, then Stardoll.com is for you. I’ve been playing around with this site for some time and have to say, for perverts it’s first class.

Imagine my joy when I found Angelina Jolie and the Olsen Twins. Here’s a couple of outfits I made earlier:

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Natalie PortmanAdmittedly the outfits are minimalistic, but you could do more if you wanted. Stardoll.com isn’t the only site that allows you to do this, there are thousands of them in varying styles. This Natalie Portman was from another such site.

I’m not sure of the morality of all of this, but I’m loving it.

For irony fans out there you can even dress up the Hoff himself, but you might want to dress him with more than I’ve done here.

The Hoff

Affiliate Marketing, Internet, Make Money

Just buy Toys launches using Affiliate Shop Window

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The network Affiliate Window recently launched a great system called ‘Shop Window’ where you can take code written by them that imports all of the available merchant feeds direct to your website. It means you can create your own Affiliate site in minutes, and with a little website design flair and CSS knowledge you can customise the website to your heart’s content.

With this in mind we’ve just launched the website www.JustbuyToys.co.uk through Just Search. It contains product feeds from many of the major merchants in the toy industry such as Toys R Us, The Entertainer and Woolworths and features category pages for toys like Barbie, Bratz and my personal obsession; Transformers.

Just buy Toys

Have a look at the site, browse around and buy some toys! Seriously, you don’t need to buy any toys if you don’t want to, but the website is a shining example of how Affiliate Window’s ‘Shop Window’ can be used and customised.

Naturally we’ll be making a few of these now in different sectors and promoting them using natural SEO. I’m so excited I could rip a tissue.

Just buy Toys - Optimus Prime

If you want to create your own affiliate site like Just buy Toys then you can sign up to Affiliate Window and get designing.

Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

RSA say they’ll fix my car, FINALLY!

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Still waiting for Zoe Banks to get back to me about my car, I decided to email her today. She was supposed to be contacting the Hillcroft garage to ask the question I’d raised last November when my car was partially repaired: had the car been recovered with the keys?

If you’ll remember, RSA have insisted they won’t replace the lockset on the car because they think it was.

Hey Zoe, the clock is ticking, unlike my car. I would dearly like to know if RSA are going to be bothered fixing it this year, or should I make plans for the 18 month anniversary in January 2008?

I could send you a cake?

I wonder too if should pursue a claim against RSA for the cost of a replacement car for the last year and a half as it’s down to your incompetence that my car is off the road?

Amazing she replied, though didn’t comment on whether she’d spoken to the garage or not.

Dear Mr Jamieson,

With regards to your recent Emails I write to confirm the offer in final settlement of your claim.

I propose to organise recovery of your car to a repairing garage of your choice, I will then arrange for them to estimate the car and agree details with one of Royal and Sun Alliance’s Engineers. This will allow for the work can be undertaken without further delay. I understand the repairs outstanding to the vehicle are to the aerial, the rear bumper and the replacement of the key and locks.

Please confirm that you are happy for me to proceed on this basis, and provide details of your chosen repairer to including name, address and contact number for the Bodyshop Manager.

Yours Sincerely

Zoe Banks
Customer Service Leader

So they’re finally going to pick the car up and get it fixed AND change the lockset? I wonder why it took 16 months for this to happen? I won’t get excited just yet as I’ve had false promises before from RSA and Direct Line. I’ll wait until the car is dropped off at my house in Manchester, fixed, before I draw a line under this one.

Humour, Movies, Rants

Mr Daz trys to break into his own house

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This is the one you’ve been waiting for. This is the video of me breaking into my house, or at least trying to. When I found out that my ex-wife’s father had changed the locks on MY HOUSE I drove down to get the new keys from him. Naturally the twat hid inside his house and refused to come out, so after phoning the police I made my way to my house to try and break in.

I wasn’t very good at it, not cut out for burglary. I guess if I were from Cwmbran it would have come as second nature, but I’m not, I’m from Rhiwderin.

Anyway, the police eventually did turn up and showed they don’t actually know the law. They said they’d arrest me for breach of the peace, but as the official description on ‘Breach of the Peace‘ shows, I wasn’t at all. Had they arrested me for that it would have been wrongful arrest, but I do believe they would have done it anyway.

So, sit back and watch the video Starring me, PC Merrick, my neighbours and filmed by Tony Dicker.

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Internet, Rants

What I hate about eBay

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Recently I’ve been selling a lot of DVD’s on eBay to get rid of movies I’ve bought and never watched. There are a lot. This can be an exercise in frustration though as I end up selling DVDs bought for £10 and upwards for as little as 99p. Once eBay have taken their listing fee, their final valuation fee and through PayPal, their money transfer fee, that leaves me with around 60p for a DVD.

I’d get more at a boot sale. With some of the DVDs to be honest I’d be happier giving them away than letting someone nab The Princess Bride for under a quid.

Furthermore, when you do sell the DVDs it seems the less people pay for them, the more they want them quickly and complain. The fact that it takes 5 days to transfer money from PayPal to your bank matters not to them (incidentally there goes another 25p of your remaining 60p profit from the sale, leaving you with 35p).

The complaining emails I get demanding the DVDs immediately is becoming a bore, so much so that I’m considering abandoning actually selling on eBay.

For instance…

RE: You’ve received a question about eBay item: Doctor Who – The Movie (DVD 2001)(110183307350)

Seeing as I paid for this item on 31/09/08 I honestly thought I would have received it by now.
Thanks

– tedtrott01

Great eh? This is one of many such emails which usually receive the stock response, however this time I thought I’d make more of an issue of it.

Dude, firstly; that’s not a question.

Secondly, as the auction didn’t end until 31st October I don’t see how you could have paid for it on 31st September, unless you ARE the Doctor?

All DVDs get sent out this week.

There has to be a better way to get rid of your DVDs?

Royal & SunAlliance

Join the Royal & SunAlliance Facebook group

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Want to keep up to date with what RSA are doing with regards to my car? Or more to the point, what RSA are failing to do with regards to my car. No problem, as well as subscribing to my RSS feed you can also join the Royal & SunAlliance Insurance Complaints Facebook Group, set up by yours truly.

Naturally setting up a Facebook group wasn’t enough for MrDaz. I’ve also joined the other RSA groups to spread the word among their employees. Knowing the way RSA try to sweep bad PR under the carpet (as they’ve tried to stop me telling you how truly awful they are) they’ll probably shut down all of the RSA groups and ban their employees from using them. If only they spent as much energy actually fulfilling claims, then they wouldn’t have this bad press at all. Funny how simple it all is really.

Sign up, have your say, or just read the stories of gross incompetence from Royal & SunAlliance.

Who knows, they may actually fix my car and this will all have a happy ending, but I seriously doubt that.

So much anger, so little time