An open invitation to the crooks

The weather today has been what Bob calls, typically British. The wind has been blowing a gale and the rain driven along by its passing. As for the sun, it has been showing itself from time to time, but the wind is cold and quickly chills the air. In other words, I should have stayed in hibernation where it was at the very least, a whole lot warmer. Croak!!!

Never a week passes without you humans getting at each others throats, do you really hate each other so much? I see that despite the way that China has been treating the Tibetan people, the rest of the world seems to be quite content to let life continue as if nothing was wrong. Do you lot not care about the inhumane way that China is torturing and bullying the Tibetans into submission, and then finally robbing these people of their oil wealth as if it owned the country? Of course not, and why should you? After all, Britain is out there in Iraq helping the Yanks do the same sort of thing. You think not? Well ask yourself this question: Would the Yanks have gone to war against the Iraqis if they hadn't got such enormous oil deposits? No wonder they let China do as they're doing. Croak!!!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Boycott the Chinese Olympics. If you are an Olympic sports hopeful who intends to go out there to compete, Don't Go! How many more Chinese families have got to lose their homes for the sake of two weeks or so of these games? Do you really want this on your conscience? Do you really care so little about what these games are doing to others? The buck stops with everyone outside China. Boycott its products. Don't go there for your holidays. In fact, treat China just like it treats the Tibetan people, with the utter contempt that China deserves. Croak!!!

Bob, in his wisdom, has been telling me about eBay once again. Apparently, eBay has made a whole lot of hasty changes to its operations lately, the worst by far is connected to their precious PayPal payments system. How many times must I repeat myself? PayPal is not the completely safe system that eBay thinks and tells you it is. PayPal is not a bank, therefore, it does not give you the safety of a normal financial banking service. Believe it or not, there are still lots of evil people out there around the world who constantly use PayPal to rob other eBay users of both their goods and their money too. The only reason it wants you to use this service, it's solely because it owns PayPal and with each and every single transaction, it makes a very big profit.

Just when, as a PayPal customer, you thought everything was going along all hunky dory like, they have the power to freeze your account and prevent you from accessing your funds, all without telling you why they've done it. Yes, you'll receive one of their annoying template messages, which you'll discover is extremely frustrating and will drive you nuts, but it'll be ages before you can access your precious money again. Now, according to their latest changes: if you want to sell anything on eBay, you must register a credit card with them and offer PayPal transactions to your winning bidders. Wish I could do this to you poor suckers, I'd make millions..... Oh! but then this is what eBay are already doing to you. I doubt that there's room for both of us to do it. eBay cares only for itself and the billions it makes from its auctions. It cares nothing about you as one of its millions of customers. Croak!!!

Bob says that eBay is continually shooting itself in the foot. With its greedy uncaring attitude and the latest list of unfair changes it has made, Bob reckons that he is even less likely to do any further business through eBay no matter what any of its sellers have to offer. At one time, you could warn others when a bad payer or someone who is banned was once again selling or bidding on their site, now the seller is prevented from actually giving negative feedback, even when it's deserved. Not only this, but eBay is making all bidders IDs hidden, a sure way to inviting the crooks back onto the auction scene again. Croak!!!

That's it for this week. I feel a headache coming on, so it's time I went back to the garden pond. Bye all,

Froggy