eBay Talk

eBay has finally rolled out its new homepage. The new landing page is a fresh look giving you a simplified interface allowing quick access to 7 key sections, namely:

1. Recent Activites
   Go right to your favorite finds and searches
2. My eBay at a Glance
   Get a bird’s eye view of everything you’ve got going on eBay
3. Shop by Category
   Shop your favorite eBay categories here
4. Start Shopping
   Look here first to inspire your next winning adventure
5. Join the Fun
   Tips to boost your winning ways and Connect to your eBay buddies
6. Meet Our Family
   Visit other eBay companies
7. From Our Sellers
   Seller’s featured items

The design is one of my favorite eBay designs in recent years. In the past, eBay homepage looked so much of a commercial site, but the current design delivers a community site feeling - a clever move by eBay. With its new landing page design, eBay is expecting to bring in more new members, be it sellers or buyers. Ahem! Why not reduce the fees too?

If you haven't seen the new eBay homepage, head over to eBay and have a closer view. Happy eBay'ing.

The WE Television Network is auctioning off a gown worn by the late Princess Diana on eBay. This elegant dress designed by Catherine Walker of London, was originally worn by Princess Diana to the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 and to the opening of Miss Saigon in 1989. In 1997, just a month before Princess Diana’s death, WE tv purchased the dress and started to display it along with other gowns purchased from auction in a six-city tour to raise money for the Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.

All proceeds of the sale will go to America’s Promise Alliance, a national non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of disabled children. At a starting bid of $125,000 , the dress is expected to fetch over $1 million. Although at the time of this writing, there’s no bid yet, the gown is already worth a great deal of money.

This classic event dress of Chiffon is preserved in excellent vintage condition. According to the auction listing description here, the dress will arrive professionally cleaned, wrapped in acid-free paper and muslin, and packed in a white box. This auction listing is limited to pre-approved bidders or buyers only and it is going to end on Aug-22-07 17:00:00 PDT.

The beautiful gown will eventually be sold and the money will go to the charity. I truly believe that is exactly what Pricess Diana would have wanted.

The Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PeSA) is bringing you a FREE one-hour webinar, "Benefits of Cause-Marketing: Put the Power of the Ribbon to Work for You!", on Thursday August 16th at 2pm ET (11am PT/eBay Time). In the webinar, Kristin Cunningham (General Manager, eBay Giving Works) and David Yaskulka (Vice President, Product Marketing, Kompolt) are going to give you enough information about:

• How to differentiate your retail brand
• How to attract new customers and improve customer loyalty
• How to leverage eBay cause marketing to build your multi-channel retail brand

Apart from that, you can also expect the most sought-after special guest Elizabeth Bennett of Africa Direct, a Platinum PowerSeller and winner of the 2007 eBay Community Hall of Fame award, sharing her valuable tips and expertise.

Do we eat to live or live to eat? Either way, everyone needs to eat still no matter how bad the economy is and hence, F&B seems to be the most stable and profitable business until today. However, running a restaurant requires huge working capital for renovation, kitchen wares, furniture etc. Not everyone has that amount of working capital available, as a result, a business loan is definitely required in order for the merchant to sustain in the competitive market. Nonetheless, getting a working capital loan isn’t as easy, but these guys at Advance Restaurant Finance are able to assist you with restaurant finance.

Advance Restaurant Finance, a licensed lender, specializes in short-term working capital loans for small to medium-sized merchants like restaurants and retailers. For those businesses with poor credit history, it’s not a barrier at all as Advance Restaurant Finance specializes in that too and they make getting business loan a breeze.

Check out Advance Restaurant Finance today and experience the ease of restaurant financing.

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Take it from a blogger, it's not always easy to come up with things to write, and even when you do it's even harder to turn out a quality post or article. This is also true for many other people, be it teachers or even students in schools, everyone will have to write an article once in a while. Thus, when so much effort is put into it, one would rather not see it being passed off as another person's work. Such plagiarism is rampant today, especially with the internet making it all the much easier for others to copy your work. However, thanks to sites such as iPlagiarismCheck.com, such a crime can be prevented.

iPlagiarismCheck is a site which will check all forms of media, be it online or offline to ensure that plagiarism doesn't occur. Its user base of more than 2 million people are able to submit their documents and let iPlagiarismCheck take it from there. The site will ensure that your work is not copied by others through a few patented approaches, for example they check websites such as blogs, directories, caches, etc. Also, they check all forms of publications, be they hard or soft, as their software is able to check books, articles and even journals. Thus, they are obviously extremely meticulous in the way they go through other pieces of work to ensure that your article is protected. They go so far as to check for sentence structures and even paraphrasing to ensure that even subtle attempts at plagiarism will not escape. The patented algorithm iPlagiarismCheck uses is obviously extremely impressive.

Furthermore, the prices at which the site sells its services for is extremely affordable. They have kept in mind that many of their users would most probably be students, thus the starter package goes for only $5 which allows you to submit one document. The student package is only $20 and will allow the user to submit up to five documents, this would obviously be the perfect package for students. There is also the $35 advanced package and the $65 Super-Saver package which allows unlimited submissions for one whole year. Thus, no matter if you're an occasional writer or an avid one who loves to write everyday, iPlagiarismCheck will have the price point that suits you the best.

All in all, plagiarism is an extremely serious crime whereby culprits will face serious consequences such as heavy fines or even jail-time. However, with technology advancing at such a rapid rate, it's becoming increasingly easy for anyone to commit this crime. Hopefully, with sites such as iPlagiarismCheck, more people will be deterred from copying other's work.

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Dealing with real estate can be a real pain for many of us who have no idea how to approach it. There are simply too many factors to consider when you start to deal with real estate, and most of us aren't inclined to try and understand it. One of the most troublesome things to do is to find the real estate that is up for sale in the first place. It might sound silly but having to try and find out such simple details might be a pain for some. However, sites such as Obares will make this a bit easier for some.

Obares gives you the best resources to help you find real estate in the United States of America to buy and sell. This includes the entire process of purchasing your new home right up to the day you move. Let's take for example the real estate in Decatur for sale by owner. You're instantly able to view certain details about the town such as the a picture of it on google maps and also the percentage of each race living there. All this will factor in to your ultimate decision of choosing a new home or building which you would like to purchase. Of course, on that same page it will list the apartments for sale as well as some real estate agents whom will be able to aid you in your search for a new home. There are also links to several important aspects of the city such as public schools and libraries, hospitals, churches and even movers in Decatur.

PayPerPost has just raised another $7 million in Series B funding making it the first get-paid-to-blog company with over $10 million in capital. This second round investment was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company's Series A and later joined the Board of Directors. Congratulations, PayPerPost.

Below is the Press Release:

The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B
Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors

ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company's Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors.

“PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.”

Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.

“PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.”

To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com/. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.

The existing PayPerPost’s advertisers are mostly U.S. and European based, thus, personally I think it would be a smart move for PayPerPost to expand the market to other regions, for example Asia Pacific. With that amount of funds in capital, PayPerPost should really consider setting up offices in Asia Pacific region to sign up more advertisers from Asia Pacific as well, so that more and more advertisers and bloggers would benefit from the expansion.

For those who still don’t know much about PayPerPost, PayPerPost, founded in June 2006 by Ted Murphy, is the leading marketplace that connects advertisers with bloggers that pays you to write reviews, opinions or ideas about the advertisers’ products and services. In less than a year, PayPerPost already created buzz in the blogging world and has signed more than 6500 advertisers and growing.

In conjuction with the overwhelming funding results, PayPerPost rolled out a 7-day promotion called “Lucky 7’s”. This hot promotion is already rocking and it will end on the coming Tuesday (June 20) noon. During this period, PayPerPost will release several opportunities with pay rate of $10.77, $70 or $700!! These opportunites will not be segmented and are available to all registered users.

For bloggers who have yet to sign up for PayPerPost, what are you waiting for? Sign up today and join the celebration, who knows you could be the Lucky 7’er who grabs the $700 opportunity. For advertisers who are not familiar with PayPerPost yet, PayPerPost provides a handy blogger directory from where you can find a blogger for hire to review or promote your product, service or even website.

Are you tired of finding ways to bring more attractions to your eBay listings? Are you planning to make your eBay listings more personalised? Thanks to SitePal, eBay auctions have now become more interactive. SitePal offers an innovative way of integrating a talking character into your auction listings on eBay. Just follow the 3 simple steps to publish the animated speaking character of your choice and you can create a better eBay auctioning experience.

Sometimes, it’s nice to see a face and hear a voice when shopping online, considering there are millions of auction listings on eBay. It definitely makes bidders feel more confident in the purchase. Jesse Gonzales, a Platinum Power Seller, strongly recommends it to every eBay seller as it incredibly increased his sales by more than 700%.

Recording your sales pitch on SitePal is a breeze, you can record it by phone, by mircrophone, text to speech or even upload an audio file after designing the appearance of your animated sales agent. To experience the power of the speaking character, SitePal now offers a 15-day free trial, head over to SitePal today to test drive it today. It's time to personalise your eBay listings, fellow sellers.

If you are looking for a drug addiction treatment or if you know someone who might need a drug-free life, these guys at Stone Hawk drug treatment center are able to offer help. Stone Hawk is known as the most successful drug treatment program in the country as it continues to deliver a success rate of 76%.

Unlike other drug treatment programs, Stone Hawk uses a drug-free approach called Narconon® program. Narconon® program basically uses a behavioral approach instead of a medial model to educate participants to overcome their substance abuse problems and it is the only program adopted by Stone Hawk as other programs failed to deliver results.

Stone Hawk also provides a drug treatment information packet, you can download it here for free. Alternatively, you may reach them at toll-free 1-888-227-9193. Do not wait no more, let the experts at Stone Hawk help you live an addiction-free life today.

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If you have not heard of Skip McGrath, he is one of the eBay's Gold Power Sellers. He is a registered eBay Trading Assistant, and has lectured at eBay's annual convention and training event, eBay Live. Skip McGrath is also the author of Titanium eBay and Three Weeks to eBay Profits.

For those of you who are in look for reliable and professional eBay selling tips, Skip McGrath has unveiled an in-depth “99 Tips for Buying and Selling on eBay”. 74 out of the 99 tips are the tips for eBay sellers whereas the other 25 tips are about buying on eBay. Basically, this valuable professional article tells you what to do and what not to do while selling on eBay.

Below is just some of the tips taken from the article:
1. The best types of products to sell on eBay
2. Increase sales by putting audio in your auctions
3. Automate your auctions
4. Building a High Feedback Rating Quickly
5. Create attractive backgrounds for your auctions
6. Package your eBay shipments professionally
7. How to keep your customers happy and generate lots of positive feedback
8. How to get something for free on eBay
9. What to sell and finding a niche market on eBay

In order to succeed in eBay selling, it is always a wise move to learn from experts, learn from their experience and mistakes. Although there's no such thing as a free lunch in this world, these 74 tips are available to you free of charge.

Click Here to get your FREE 74 Tips for eBay Sellers. You can copy and save it however you want, and make sure you read through, study and follow what it tells.

Everyone hates spyware, and there’s no guarantee that our PC will be completely free of spywares. I used to experience the worst spyware attack ever. I didn’t manage to find out the name of the spyware and I still don’t know the name of it even until today. However, what happened was this spyware invaded my computer and I got pop-ups saying things like “adults” “casinos” “poker”, and when I closed them, it redirected me to some stupid search engine look-alike sites, the nuisance didn’t just stop there, the pop-ups just kept coming up every 2-3 minutes! Besides, the spyware also slowed down the whole computer while online.

After hours of consulting my buddies, I quickly installed a free-trial Spyware Doctor hoping that it would solve the problem. When I finally got the Spyware Doctor up and scanning the whole computer, I got annoyed once again, ‘cause it took ages for the software to scan and locate the spyware. Hours passed by but the scan meter showed only 45% scanned, not even half of it. What did I do next? Without second thoughts, I immediately uninstalled Spyware Doctor and reformat the whole computer. Reformat doesn’t seem to work sometimes. Although the pop-ups did not come up that frequent anymore, it still came up once in a while. I hated it.

Ever since then, I always make sure that I have a reliable anti-spyware software installed to get rid of spyware threats and infections. There’s an award-winning anti-spyware on the market, called Spy Sweeper. One key feature of Spy Sweeper is the real-time Smart Shields which continuously monitors and blocks sophisticated spyware threats before they even intrude your PC. You can also expect advanced detection and removal capabilities for stubborn spyware or malware. Furthermore, with Spy Sweeper, you won’t have to worry about the software being outdated over times, it provides automatic defense updates and keeps you protected from the latest spywares. Better still, you’re backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.

With Spy Sweeper installed on your PC, you are assured of the real-time protection against spywares. You should give it a try today.

Enhance listings, control inventory, handle customers, deliver post-sales activities etc. Just so many things one has to deal with when it comes to selling on eBay. Having said so, Acclivity released a powerful auction management software called MarketBlast (http://www.marketblast.com), designed to help eBay PowerSellers sell more, spend less and save time.

MarketBlast is a relatively new eBay auction management software and no matter what you sell on eBay, MarketBlast helps you do it faster and easier. Of course there are many other similar eBay auction management softwares out there, but MarketBlast trumps a lot of them because of one major feature - MarketBlast is aimed exclusively at Power Sellers who post from 100 sales a week up to 100 listings a day or more on eBay — and those who aspire to grow their eBay business to these numbers. Nonetheless, it doesn’t mean that low volume sellers can’t use it. Everyone should consider this amazing software if you’re serious about selling on eBay.

MarketBlast allows users to set general preferences in the control panel with eight primary groups, namely Inventory, Listings, Transactions, Contacts, Consignments, Questions, Feedback and Disputes. They are easily accessible from the control panel or independent windows. The great thing about MarketBlast is that images in Marketblast may be tagged or watermarked to protect the images from being pirated.

From inventory management to consignment, customer relationship management to business analysis, MarketBlast is packed with everything you need to succeed. With its recent PayPal integration for payment processing and Endicia for postage, MarketBlast is definitely a useful eBay tool that you should check out if you want to simplify the selling process.

Download a free trial today, get a rundown of all MarketBlast features, compare them to what you're currently using to sell on eBay and find out more about what MarketBlast can do for you!

Once in awhile, I'm sure all of us would like to go on a vacation just to kick back and relax, hoping to get away from the hectic everyday life that many of us lead. Of course, the desire to do so is easy, the planning is the hard part, what with plane tickets and Hotel Reservation to think about, sometimes it's a real pain to even want to go on a vacation. Thankfully, there are sites such as Hotel Reservations that will hopefully make the planning phase of any vacation a lot easier.

Hotel Reservations is a site where you are able to completely plan your entire vacation from. From the plane tickets, to hiring a car to pick you up from the airport, and of course it helps you book a hotel room, all from one site. The site also offers various types of lodging, from hotels to motels to resorts to vacation rentals, thus at least one of the plans will fit into the budget of anyone who wishes to go on a vacation. And speaking of prices, the site also offers extremely competitive rates as compared to the rest of the web, with great discounts which they offer. Thus, price is definitely not an issue when one considers using this site.

Needless to say, this is obviously an extremely convenient way for anyone to plan a vacation, as everything they would need to consider can be found on one site. Best of all, the internet makes it so much easier, as compared to in the past when one had to go through a multitude of phone calls before one could finally finish planning a vacation. By the time the vacation was finally planned, one would already be so beat from that experience itself. However, with the advent of the internet, one no longer has to go through that tedious task anymore.

This site is definitely one which will help every single holiday goer, as it just makes it so much easier for one to plan their vacation. With everything in one site, it's hard to imagine why anyone would not want to make use of a site such as Hotel Reservations.

Ever wanted to give the perfect gift, but either you couldn't decide on one or you were simply too lazy to go pick one up? Well with the advent of online shopping, it has become much easier nowadays to select gifts for friends or family members, and Designer Gifts (http://www.designergifts.com) is one such site that hopes to make it a little easier.

Designer Gifts is a new gift store from OnlineStores.com, a leading online retailer with several other stores. The store sells a wide range of gifts of all types, including birthday gifts, Christmas gifts, Father's day gifts etc for men, women, children and babies. They sell practically everything that could act as a gift, from gift baskets, to greeting cards, and even digital picture frames. All of them are extremely cheap gifts that are well worth your money. It being an online store, it's also much easier to browse through the products using the menu instead of wasting hours at a time window shopping, trying to search for the perfect gift. Now you can do so from the comforts of your own home.

However, this is not merely an online store for gifts, rather, Designer Gifts also offers gift ideas for men, as men are usually criticised for being "insensitive" and not knowing how to give a proper gift, so hopefully this site will help give them some idea of what they should get. Of course, such advice is not limited to men only, as at the time of this writing, Designer Gifts is offering Father's Day Gift ideas, helping everyone get the perfect gift for their Dad on Father's day. There's also advice on what to get children or babies even, therefore everyone would be able to find the perfect gift for anyone else with the help of Designer Gifts.

By offering such gifts at such a low cost, and having the entire site focused around gifts, Designer Gifts could really give bigger sites like Amazon a run for their money when it comes to special occasions such as mother's day or even birthdays. With great advice and an easy way to browse through the products, Designer Gifts is definitely a site that everyone should check out when the holiday season approaches, as it will save us all a big headache on what to get for our favorite relative or friend.

No matter where we are in the world, we're bound to meet the red, white and blue sooner or later. The flag of the United States of America can really be found all over the place, and next to everyone will recognise it immediately. That's the impact that the star spangled banner flag has on the world, and United States Flag Store (http://www.United-States-Flags.com) is selling these flags and flagpoles so that everyone can have one.

United-States-Flags.com is the leading online retailer of American flags and flagpole kits. There, you're able to get a variety of US flags - be it an indoor flag, a garden flag or one that's hung on outdoor flagpoles, this site has them all. However, despite the name, they not only sell American flags, but they also stock state, country and military flags, indoor flag pole kits, pins and other patriotic decorations. Thus, you're bound to be able to find something here to show your patriotism, no matter where you're from, since they not only sell US flags.

This is also the largest online vendor of flags and flagpoles, with approximately 50% of the entire online market. They have over 500,000 flags in stock, and ship within 2-3 business days to all US states, US territories and Canada only. It would definitely gain them a bigger market share if they could ship internationally. Their service is obviously also top notch, as they even have customer service available. Their products are also of top quality, as they are from top manufacturers including Valley Forge and Eder, two of the largest US makers of flags.

United-States-Flags.com is really anybody's one stop shop for everything to do with flags, or patriotic items. You can even consider selling the flags on eBay, try negotiating with them if they could offer a wholesale deal. Looking for a flag? United-States-Flag.com is the site for you!

Being in debt is never a good feeling, it's pressurising to have money on your mind almost all the time. One usually can't wait for the day that he or she is finally out of debt, sites like Destroy Debt will hopefully help that day come faster.

Destroy Debt basically tries to help you do 2 things - Get out of debt and stay out of debt. It offers a wide range of advice on various topics to help you understand how to do those 2 things. For example it offers tips on debt consolidation loan, debt counseling and also helps to explain what bankruptcy is all about. Such valuable information is definitely hard to find on the net, at least now you know where to find it.

Furthermore, there is also a debt forum on the site, which is basically a place where you can talk all about debts. From any general questions you might have, to even stories about your debt and of course how to avoid debt. There are a wide range of topics that people are discussing about in this area, which will definitely help anyone who wants to talk about how to destroy your debt.

All in all, Destroy Debt is an extremely valuable site, offering important information for people who are in debt, and also providing a place where everyone can both receive and give help regarding debts. Hopefully, with the help of this site, more people will be able to get out of debt and lead a more carefree and easier life, instead of having to constantly think about his or her own finances.

Online shopping is really becoming much more popular nowadays as more and more people realise how much more easier and convenient it is. However, seldom do shoppers realise how complicated it is to set up an online shopping site and get everything working, but it's times like these when Ashop Commerce step in to make it so much easier.

Basically, Ashop Commerce is a leading provider of hosted shopping cart software that offers a complete solution for merchants to sell online. It allows anyone to set up a virtual shopping cart that allows shoppers to easily organise and pay for purchases and it's where everything he or she would like to buy is temporarily stored in before being checked out. It is relatively easy to install this shopping cart software and one requires absolutely zero programming skills to be able to install this shopping cart software. The entire set up of this ecommerce software takes only roughly 10 minutes, after which shoppers can start making use of this software.

Ashop Commerce software offers a 10 day trial, after which merchants are required to pay for this service which starts at just US$69 per month. This ecommerce shopping cart software is definitely well worth the money, as there are countless benefits to it, such as the fact that your business can be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you will be able to track purchases and use data to improve your offering and most importantly you can reach a much wider audience as you will be able to be contacted by people worldwide, giving you the ability to increase sales. These benefits do indeed justify the price, no doubt about that.

All in all, Ashop Commerce is definitely one of the better ecommerce shopping cart softwares which offers easy-to-use features at affordable prices that allow any internet savvy business person to run their own online store, since the only experience actually needed is to have browsed the web!

Technology is really taking over many parts of our lives. In the past we had Walkmans, now they got iPods. We had radios now we have Hi-Fi sets. Now, even the traditional photo frames are getting an upgrade and have now gone digital, and the folks over at digitalframez.com are offering them for sale.

Digital frames are a new and innovative way of displaying pictures that makes it much easier and convenient. It's basically shaped like a regular rectangular photo frame, but in place of the photo itself is a high resolution LCD screen that is able to display pictures. It's real easy to get your own photos on it however, just 3 steps:
1) Take the photos.
2) Transfer them to a memory card.
3) Insert it into your digital photo frame and enjoy your favourite slideshow using a remote control.

It's just that simple. Not only are these frames able to display photos, but you can play music in the background or even watch movies, all without the need for a computer.

This makes it much easier to show off a slideshow of pictures taken on a holiday or your son's graduation video to friends and families, instead of going through the entire process of booting up a computer and then having to search for the specific file. Digital photo frames are also much more flexible than your traditional photo frames as it can display a whole variety of pictures and present them in the form of a slideshow, instead of just staring at a single unchanging photo.

This digital picture frame is no doubt a new concept and it will take time for people to get used to them, as some people might still prefer the traditional frames. However, once people realise how much more versatile their digital counterparts are, we'll begin to see them in almost every home.

You may consider selling this unique item on eBay.