Last week I decided to get a new television after hearing about one being on sale at Argos. Like most buyers, I read the reviews written by customers on Argos’ website. There were hardly any negativity over the item, only some complaints over the sound being tinny. So I went ahead and purchased the 22″ Bush television.

After receiving it, I was pretty impressed, it was an impressive design and good picture quality. Only negative thing was that the sound was pretty tinny. With a few tweaks in the settings it didn’t sound too bad, but after a while I noticed that the aspect ratio of the picture was quite off, as people appeared a little too long and thin. Even with tweaking the settings, I couldn’t do anything to improve it.

After a few days, the television was taken back and replaced. But the odd thing is that the Bush television had 62 comments, not one mentioned the symptoms I experienced. Could it have been a fault? Possibly, but I doubt it. It got me thinking though, should we trust reviews from the likes of Argos and Amazon? How truthful are they? As I’m beginning to have my doubts.

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It has been a while since my last post, again. Not good. Since the end of May things have been up and down.

I did after all offload a few of the directories I had. Managed to make a little profit on them, but not much. I still have two left, one of which is now PR3. At present they’re just being neglected and have 5,000 pending links each.

Funny thing is someone paid $10 for a featured link on the PR3 directory. I decided to refund as the link went against the submission rules, plus I was and still am undecided over the future of the directory.

I have managed to acquire a few sites. Admittedly I’m only spending little amounts, as buying sites is too risky. For example, I have little faith in what people post as traffic and revenue details. Also by buying cheaply means I have a better chance of reselling.

I don’t know how it is for other people, but Adsense isn’t doing too well for me of late. I guess the downturn is responsible. Also appears some of my sites aren’t converting very well neither. Clearly I need to do some fine tuning.

I hope to make more regular posts in future. Unfortunately my health is up and down too, which makes doing things on a regular basis a little difficult.

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