The CL spamers have a new trick, well its new to me. They send you a email that looks harmless enough and than BAM if you reply to it they hit you with tons of Spam.

Let me start from the beginning so as not to look like a spamers myself. I was selling some stuff on CL with a link to my other website, for no other reason than I am notoriously lazy when it comes to posting things, so I post one thing and people look at my other stuff too. Well I have a contact page with email, phone, etc but thats not how they are getting me. They send me an email about what I am advertising that looks like a ligament inquiry and when I replied by the next morning I had five emails from other email address of just junk.

You may think that I would know better but I trust that most people will do whats right. Well thats where I went wrong, as we all know that spamers are not big on doing whats right or proper if they did they wouldn’t be spamers.

Can this plague on the Internet ever be stopped or are they just a blight that must be endured for as long as the net holds together? The way I see it is that it will only stop when it proves to no longer be profitable. Keep that in mind when you actually read some of them thinking that what ever they are selling looks good!

While fueling my Harley at my favorite gas station it occurred to me that I was being cheated. Just take a minute to look at things form a logical view point. If you are getting only 2.5 gallons of gas, I run premium, it is logical to wonder how much of it is really premium. The person before me was purchasing regular so the lines where full of that when I rolled up. So if I get super the first gallon is most likely regular grade. My conclusion is the I just paid super price for regular gas. What a rip off, I have been cheated by how ever much gas was in the lines when I made my purchase.

The amount of cyclist cheated every year is staggering! I can only speak for myself but I would love to have $ .10 of the first gallon of gas form EVERY motorcycle on the road today, I can say that work would be missing me. Just think of it .10 for each scoot running on each day all year long.

Just think of it!

 I started in business in better times and this is my first real bout with this economy. All the rule have changed and I will admit that I have been a slow learner, but I am learning. Not so many years ago some of us in the same industry worked together, to some extent, to deal with all the problems running a business brings. Everything from inventory issues, to shipping. Now all the rule have changed to the point where it is truly cutthroat and you don’t dare show any sign of weakness or your “friend” will put a knife in your back and then push you off the cliff. I now keep my supplier, distributors, and customers very quiet. When I would normally ask for help, now I am alone and I just don’t understand why things have to be that way.

I had a great idea for a product usage in an untapped market. Well, I let it slip what I was thinking and now I am being squeezed out of that market. That really hurts to have someone you trust do that to you! Is this really where things are going for the human race? You see, I don’t see this as a business short coming but rather as the human race falling short of its true potential. When we all work together just think about all the great things that have been accomplished. It has been said that no man is an island, but that is the way we are heading.

This is a sad day my friends when I am forced to admit that we, the human race, it failing due to our inability to work together for the common good. As my wife has pointed out to me, business has always been that way. And that one persons idea, quickly becomes many peoples idea. I guess that is why there is a patent office, although it doesn’t apply to this case.

Note: I know this sounds like a sour grapes scenario, but I believe if we’re all going to make it out to see the other end, working together is the best solution.