September 1, 2008

Buy a Cigar Humidor As A Gift

There are many understandable reasons why every cigar smoker should have a cigar humidor. The cigar humidor is basically like a cigar humidor humidifier, which keeps your cigars at just the right temperature, making sure that they stay fresh and tasty until you go to smoke them.

Proper cigar storage is crucial, and the only way to properly store your cigars is with the right cigar humidor. If you do not store your cigars properly you may encounter one of a few different problems, such as the cigars will end up burning unevenly or having too rapid of a burn, or the cigars ending up with a bitter or harsh taste.

Cigar Humidor Features

Although the specific features will vary from one cigar humidor to another, there are a few basic features that tend to be the same among all humidors. Almost all humidors have three features in common: Spanish cedar which is considered as being the finest type of cedar, humidification unit which is a device that is attached to the inner lid of the humidor that includes a housing and substance to hold the moisture, and a hydrometer which indicates the humidity.

It is important to make sure that a humidor has these three necessary features before you go ahead and purchase it, because otherwise it may just be a plain cigar box and will not offer the feature of maintaining a proper temperature.

Cigar Humidor Setup and Care

You really need to be concerned with the setup and care processes of your cigar humidor. To clean you should submerge the humidifiers in distilled water until well saturated, and then dry off the surface of the humidifier and place on a towel for approximately one hour to make sure that no dripping occurs because this may end up ruining the box.

Although some cigar humidor manufacturers will tell you that you can dampen the humidor with a water filled sponge to clean, this is honestly not the best idea and if you want to keep your humidor in the best possible condition you should really avoid this altogether. If you subject raw wood to water it may end up swelling, or cracking, and the sponge may even contain particles that end up contaminating the humidor.

Just make sure that you take your time and see what is out there in terms of a cigar humidor selection, so that you can find the best one for you and one that is going to last you.

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August 31, 2008

Why you can save a small fortune on your Amazon Buys

Whilst chatting with a friend of mine at the pub recently he mentioned that he’d made a useful discovery about Amazon. 

You see, he was trawling through the terms and conditions on Amazon’s website and found this sentence:

“Amazon’s prices for released items will change from time to time based on a variety of factors. If Amazon’s price for an already-released item decreases within 30 days after we ship the item to you, we’ll be glad to refund the difference in price if you contact us within that 30-day period.”

How did they keep this quiet? !

So if I buy something today and next week Amazon drop the price by 20% then I can claim that 20% reduction back !  No wonder they’ve hidden that deep in their Terms and Conditions. It could cost them loads of money!

But the question is who’s going to have time to keep going back and checking and rechecking to see if their purchases have gone down ?

This started me off searching the Interweb for options.

It appears that up until recently the only way that these price drops could be found was either by remembering all the purchases you’ve made or by wading through all your email receipts line by line. And after that visiting Amazon to check if the price has dropped. Tiresome!

Then I stumbled upon Price Drop Protector.

All you have to do is to enter the item reference, the price paid for it, the date you bought the item (get these from your Amazon account page) and your email address. The site will then let you know when the product drops in price up to 30 days after you paid for it.  Then all you do is ask Amazon for the refund by filling in a simple form.

It’s so straight forward it’s brilliant !

So if you fancy saving some cash why not check out Price Drop Protector and saving money!

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August 30, 2008

How misspelled eBay items can save you money

It’s not common knowledge but a large number of eBay sellers consistently fail to read through their auction listings before they submit them to eBay.  Sometimes these auction typos are deliberate and result from sellers trying to cram too much detail in to the auction title (eBay limits this to just 65 letters).  More usually these typos are simply due to carelessness or a basic inability to spell.

But why is this important ?

Because unless someone searching on eBay for a particular item happens to misspell the search word in exactly the same way then these misspelled auctions are unlikely to be found.

Up until recently the only way that these auction typos could be located was by wading through the auction listings line by line.

Thankfully there is a better way to find these misspelled auctions: one that has been used successfully by tens of thousands of bargain hunters over the last year and it’s to use a third party web site to search for eBay misspellings called Auction-Fatfingers.com.

This very specialized search engine functions by taking a correctly spelled word or brandname, deliberately misspelling it in a number of ways and then submitting the list of misspellings to eBay.  Any misspelled auctions containing any of the words on the list of misspellings will then be shown on eBay.

But why do this ?

The answer is stunningly simple !  Because these eBay auction typos are usually quite tricky to find they get fewer bids. This means that misspelled items generally sell for less than the same item which is correctly spelled, if they sell at all.  So while these stupid typing mistakes cost the sellers money they mean that you, the purchaser, can get a real bargain.

If you’re really smart you can even relist any misspelled items that you buy (taking care to avoid introducing typos) in order to make a profit.

So what are you waiting for ? Why not pay a visit to Auction-Fatfingers.com immediately and try searching for ‘Abercrombie’, ‘Motorola’ or ‘Playstation’. You’ll be astonished at the bargains that you can find.

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