For many the discovery of online auctions was like a lights-on event: it enabled them to get rid of many used or outdated items. For purchasers, though, it afforded them a way to buy stuff that was of value. Value, after all, is seen in the eyes of the purchaser! But some items are difficult to get rid of.

The old cell phone, like mine in the photograph, would prove difficult to get rid of even to a museum! Most people these days value the functionality and appearance of the latest phones: pda, wifi, camera, mp3, you name it! So it is difficult to sell your old cell phone… Some estimates put the total at over 1/2 billion phones in closets, drawers and cupboards nationwide! That’s a lot of phones. And the problem shows no signs of abating as people purchase new phones on average every 18 months! That’s a lot of landfill, too! Nearly 7% of people in the US throw them out in the trash! In fact, that phone has sat on the shelf of my bookcase for nearly 12 months now. It works fairly well! But I haven’t turned it on at all in that time!

However, CellforCash.com are offering a great way to solve these problems: you get rid of your old phone without feeling guilty, claim a little cash back, save the environment, and allow your phone to be reused in a way that benefits non-profits and charities working worldwide! And they throw in the shipping, too!

Of course, the other side of their business is a retail website that sells refurbished phones at great deals. You may also want to check that out before you buy your next phone! Buying a second hand phone may be the smartest move for InvestorBloggers after all! You get a late model phone, you can pick and choose the model, you know what’s likely to be a good or bad phone, you don’t have to pay for the inevitable depreciation that turns a $500 phone into $50 eyesore in less than two years, and you get to save a ton of money! Moreover, you are actually helping the environment just a little! Think about it!

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Buzz #6 is around in this month’s special promotion! I’m enjoying reading these great blogs that I come across, and this one is no exception.

It’s called NickQueen.com and can be found at http://www.nickqueen.com. NickQueen’s blog is very much a personal blog with a wide range of topics. A quick gander down the topics list encounters almost 40 different categories! I noticed that in recent days he tends to be posting more political stuff here, here and here .

I like the attractive colors, the addition of the cross at the top, and the pleasing layout. I also like the effect on the name very much!

But I do have one suggestion that is quite simple to make, but may cause some confusion in the short term! If you could, you should think about changing your post titles from the post number to something more search engine friendly! Eg. your post for this is http://www.nickqueen.com/?p=351, but it could be more appropriately named using a post slug! You’d need to configure the options in Wordpress in Options >>> Permalinks, to do this! It’s easy enough to do, but it will change your addresses for your posts!

Of course, if you do change the permalinks, you may have problems with anyone looking for the location of old posts. But for the first time, if you are going to change the naming conventions from the default to a new type, all the posts should be found by numbers alone, even on my blog! You can try the numbers to see what happens! Try these numbers, after the address in the bar: (https://www.investorblogger.com/?= ###). Change ### to any number between 1 and 750. Try 767 and 723, for starters.

You’ll see that change still works! Subsequent changes may cause additional problems, though… So be cautious if you decide to change! Good luck on the blog! I now check it out every day for interesting stuff! And thanks!

If you’d like a little buzz, go here and follow the instructions, then drop me a note to let me know it’s done!

Backgammon is one of those wonderful games that I learned to play from a longtime friend at University. I had never heard of this game, but from the moment I learned to play it, I was hooked. My friend, Glenn, didn’t tell me about the aspects of gambling such as scoring and gambling in backgammon, though. I had to learn them later!

Now, Investors, why am I writing about the backgammon game? Well, partly because backgammon is a game of odds. You are required to calculate odds through out the game, the odds of hitting blots, or being hit, and so on, as the entire movement is controlled by two dice.

Though the addition of a doubling cube in the 1920’s increased the gambling aspect of the game, it forces players to make choices earlier in the game on the likelihood of winning that game. Also, I suspect, it changes the psychology of the game.

One of the aspects of playing backgammon is that you get a chance to play with people, and, much like Poker, that psychological aspect of the game can become quite important if you are playing high stakes. Despite certain aspects of psychology being absent in the online market, it seems that the BackgammonMasters.com online game company is still finding it easy to develop new markets in Latin America, as it expands its repertoire of games for these markets.

Naturally, to serve these markets better BackgammonMasters.com has now opened branch offices in Central America. According to BackgammonMasters.com, even more games targeting the Latin American market are in the offing.

So, investors, if you are needing a little practice assessing odds for projects, backgammon could easily provide you with a little practice in these areas.

Posted by BackgammonMasters.com.