Well, it has been about a month and half since my last post, and it is time for a bit of an update.

LiveDeal seems to be working ok at this time, it has not lost over 200K listings again. The downside is that we have not seen any real activity in our store at http://mystore.livedeal.com/awevtrading/

iOffer seems to be a big question mark at this point. As our posts have increased so has the inquires and sales. We are still encountering the problems with getting our items listed, and now we face a new problem. While we strive to provide outstanding customer service, and do as we say, delivering the goods, we can't force our customers to leave feedback. iOffer has changed there policy about some items we sale, and list with them, and since we don't have the minimum positive feedback they are now looking for, we are being blocked. We can understand their concern about fraud, yet with no feedback ratings - much less a negative rating, along with working with a respected company as an authorize dealer, and the other things, and well . . .

We may be dropping iOffer, and LiveDeal. iOffer because of their policy change, and if we can't resolve it, along with the listings problem, then there is no need for us to continue with them. LiveDeal just seems to be costing us money with no return on our investment in time and effort.

Here is the other part of things. iOffer has a Google PR (Page Rank) of 3, and is ranked around 7600 on the internet, out of 20+ million sites, or to put it another way, it has more monthly vistitors than 99.99996 percent than the rest of the internet. LiveDeal seems to be just the reverse, with a PR of 6 yet ranked at 28K+ (more visitors than 99.999% of the rest of the web). So, what does this mean to us, and you? For us we may keep iOffer, even if they won't let us sell on there site, just for the interest it generates, and hope Google ranks it higher in the near future. While LiveDeal has a good PR it isn't worth it, so we will most likely drop them, since the exposure just doesn't seem to be there. And for you, well, it means you won't be seeing us on-line in both locations.

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