Harrier Jump Jet, anyone?

Don't you just love the concept of a bargain - especially when the current price for this Harrier Jump Jet on eBay is just £4,100 (price correct at the time of going to press).

The auction details say that

This is a decommissioned ex Royal Navy Sea Harrier FA2 Fighter/Attack aircraft which has served between 1987 and 1997 with all 3 of the Fleet Air Arm Harrier squadrons (800, 801 and 899 NAS).



The aircraft is externally complete to Static display/museum standards and would make a truly stunning garden feature or museum exhibit.



Complete with wing pylons and belly AMRAAM pylons. Replica engine nozzles (cast from the real thing) are fitted to give the impression an engine is installed.



Complete with photos of the aircraft in service and its full history.



This is the aircraft featured by Airfix as the 1:48 scale model of the FRS1 Sea Harrier in the 899NAS 50th Anniversary colour scheme. This colour scheme was applied to this aircraft in February 1993 prior to it's conversion to FA2 spec.



This is a Rare opportunity. You will not find a Static display Harrier this complete for sale anywhere else in the world!

More items from this seller can be seen below:

A quick update

I've been really busy - getting a couple more web sites online - Vera Bradley Handbags and Get me the Tickets

For the Coldplay enthusiasts amongst you, there are some tickets on there for some of the Coldplay events in the US and Canada

Right - I'm off to do some more work to build this great empire ..... er, revenue stream - so that I can announce my new project in September.

M

ps, just remembered, I added to the Compost Heap

£150,000 Challenge

Plodding onwards :) .... what have I done today??

Well, after publishing an article (it has yet to be reviewed and accepted), I updated another blog and then decided it was time to get aggressive with some PPC advertising.

I don't often spend money on online advertising, but I do find that there are some benefits in taking the time on a couple of the advertising networks to get some well targeted keyword phrases. For instance, I use 7Search.com because they have a fantastic keyword tool. Also, it is much easier when using their interface to see what bids are on specific keywords and to decide for myself what amount I am prepared to pay per click.

I mini-challenge myself - £150,000

Well, there you go - I have said it.

I have a project in mind and, putting a little planning in place, I realise that I need to raise a huge amount of money before the beginning of October this year.

£150,000.

It seems an insurmountable amount.

Of course, if you listen to the gurus, this is easily achievable. However, I find it difficult doing the full internet marketing bit and selling ebooks and motivational codswallop. Not that there isn't a whole lot of useful information around - it's just that I can't do it! .... or at least, not that well.

So, what can I do? Or better yet, what have I been doing??

Well, I have been building affiliate web sites which sell products because that's something I really understand. For the last twenty years I have been running a small shop - and so I do know how to sell products and gifts. The web sites are bringing in income - but I have yet to strike gold and find one where the commission is £150,000 - LOL.

My latest web site is about Vera Bradley Handbags. This is still a work in progress - and I will be working on this later today.

So, how else am I whipping myself into a frenzy to earn this £150,000?

Well, because people talk about the power of visualization, I have made a custom screen theme for my pc - which just says £150,000 - I haven't tried doing this before, but this is going to greet me every time I switch the pc on and off.

I'll be posting more about my quest for £150,000 over the next few months!

Wish me luck
M

eBay's Troubled Affiliate Program

Well, I hate the thought of provoking an ebay revolt - for my modest amount of traffic, I am getting a few sales (nothing like what I did with CJ.)

However, those who are actively promoting the ebay affiliate program by ppc, etc, who have contributed to ebay success in the past and who know their stats like the back of their hand - they are the core of eBay traffic now. eBay is saving itself an absolute fortune in google advertising. Just think - how many times when you made a search for a product a year ago did eBay advertising pop up - quite often in the top three google results. How often does that happen now?

.... I hope that eBay is paying attention to the problems that the affiliates are reporting. If it was just one rogue complaint and everyone else was happy, I could believe there isn't a problem. However, on the net, people make a living promoting products. If eBay affiliate program stops paying out well, then affiliates are going to replace this lost income by promoting something else. .....

M

ps... I also belong to other affiliate programs where the merchants (eg eBay) get absolutely slated if they put third-party advertising on their site. The argument is that the merchants are effectively stealing from their affiliates by earning money on traffic sent to them and not passing on any reward.

Gallows Humor

The apocryphal story of the condemned man being led into the execution chamber. The condemned prisoner points to the electric chair and asks the prison warden:

"Are you quite sure this thing's safe?"

From William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 1:

Mercutio is stabbed in a swordfight by Tybalt, Juliet's cousin:

Romeo: "Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much."
Mercutio: "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man."

As Sir Thomas More climbed a rickety scaffold where he would be executed, he said to his executioner:

I pray you, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.

Immediately after the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, but before the wars that secured independence, Benjamin Franklin is known to have said the following in danger of being accused of high treason to his fellow, often fractious delegates:

We must all hang together or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

After her career had declined and she had started aging, actress Tallulah Bankhead would answer the question "Are you Tallulah Bankhead?" with

No, darling, I'm what's left of her.

Author and playwright Oscar Wilde was destitute and living in a cheap boarding house when he found himself on his deathbed. There are variations on what the sentence exactly was, but his reputed last words were

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death; one or the other of us has got to go.

Perhaps one of the best examples of gallows humour in recent times is the conclusion to Monty Python's Life of Brian, in which a group of crucified criminals joyfully sings "Always look on the bright side of life".

Spotted recently in Largs

Horse pucky!

I love signposts!