A tip for Therebucks sellers

Well, now that I'm caught up on PayPal payments and paying Therebucks sellers very rapidly, here's a little tip to those selling to me on http://sell.jinx.tv...

Send your Therebucks as soon as you create the transaction! Seriously, I get a notification as soon as you create the transaction on my site, so if you pay right away and I'm there at the computer, I pay right away. Some people wait an hour or eight hours or a day to pay...first of all I pay in the order I receive your Therebucks payment, but besides that, I'm LOOKING for your Therebucks payment right after you send in the request, and I'm NOT looking for it hours or days later, so your delay can cause a greater delay.

Oh also, I'm on the west coast in the U.S. and I usually stay up late and sleep in late, so the time of day you create a transaction can make a difference...if you make a transaction in the morning, I can almost guarantee you won't get paid within a few minutes (as some transactions do) because I'm usually sleeping.

Okay, that's all I got today...back to burning DVDs of our Halloween Beatles Rock Band party!

Cheap Therebucks

I found this site on Google today for buying Therebucks and I'm pretty sure you shouldn't use it...here's why:

PayPal fee calculator

Well, had a little break in paying sellers (not buyers...buying Therebucks is still 3 mins or less) due to hosting a Halloween party, but I'm catching up fast.

Anyway, I thought this would be a good follow up to the MassPay video...

Isn't it funny how anything you can imagine is likely to be out there on the Internet already? I was thinking about how people always have questions about PayPal fees and how much they will be, but the fees can vary based on...well...variables...(like if you have a business account and do a high volume of sales, if you're doing a "cross border" transaction, etc.) and what is needed is a PayPal fee calculator.

So I checked online and OF COURSE there are already a great number of such calculators out there.

This one looks pretty cool:
http://www.rolbe.com/paypal.htm

So if you're selling your Therebucks and you want to know what sort of fees you're going to pay, give it a try...especially if you're contemplating MassPay. It should really help with figuring out if MassPay is right for your transaction or not. Ooooh...I should add a link to it from http://sell.jinx.tv! I'm going to do that this week I think.

Well, hope you had a great Halloween! We were pirates. Arrrr!

-Jinx_tv

Why and when you should use MassPay

This is a video more for people selling Therebucks TOO me and not buying FROM me. You may want to view it on YouTube (just click on the actual video after it starts) to see it at a larger size if you want to be able to read the text file demo. If you don't want to see the There pics at the beginning, just skip ahead to 3:30 in the vid. Please let me know if you still have questions about MassPay after this! :)

What's next, cats?!??

So apparently There is testing a sky neighborhood right now. Is that cool or what? I'm assuming if all goes well that this'll become a real, regular thing that anyone can use...and I know some people that are going to be sooooo excited about it! Seriously, I don't spend much time chatting with my buyers or sellers, but once in a while there is an email exchange that includes some non-Therebucks related chatter, and one of the common themes is people who are waiting for "real" sky pazzes.

Seriously, I know people who have been waiting and keeping the dream alive for YEARS and I was beginning to think they were crazy or delusional...or maybe both. Now it's becoming a reality. Yay! They must be over the moon (literally, considering they've been building up in the sky for years now anyway.)

As exciting as learning about this yesterday was, I still managed to wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, hating life, stressing out about not having my Halloween costume yet and just generally being miserable.

I perked up a little bit when I saw that Mike Wilson, CEO of There.com had retweeted my tweet regarding the space neighborhoods. This was very cool like "wow, MW knows I exist! He's following me on Twitter!" Right? But it seemed a little weird because the tweet included the URL http://jinx.tv, which almost everyone reading this post already knows is the URL for my Therebucks selling site. So it's like...the CEO of There was advertising my tbux sales. Wow, thanks Skippy!

(I probably shouldn't be soooo surprised that the CEO of There would pay attention to a Twitter account called "Therebucks":)

Then, I managed to get a pretty cool Halloween costume, and there are even some thigh-high boots on the way for it, so overall my day is looking up.

Now that we have hugs and props (and wow, props have really changed the look of things in There!) what do you think is next? Could it be cats?????

-Jinx_tv

Oh yeah, p.s. I added my first blogroll blog on the side...and it's Mike Wilson's There blog! (Hmmm...do you think he has a non-There blog?) It's pretty new so that was a nifty find. Hope it gets updated ALLLL the time. The blogroll is over on the right hand side of this page.

How I pay out Therebucks and Paypal payments away from home

This is a little longer and more rambling than I'd like, but I hope you'll find it interesting and/or useful or reassuring or something!

Was trying to post video from Sacramento

Well, I was trying to post a video using my netbook webcam with youtube's record feature telling you all about how I keep the transactions flowing out and in while I'm away from home, but everything kept freezing up about two minutes in EVERY TIME. Maybe it just means I'm too long winded!

We're about to leave to go home via Lodi (wine tasting, woohoo!) otherwise I'd try again with a shorter video. Oh well, I'll just make the video on my mac tonight or tomorrow.

Tweet Tweet, Therebucks Sellers!

Wow, Twitter is AMAZING for keeping Therebucks sellers up to date! Now if I could just get ALL sellers to follow it, I think we'd all be confident and happy! (And flowers would bloom everywhere and there'd be rainbows and puppies and kittens...)

Sellers, please do follow me on Twitter for the most up-to-date selling status!

http://twitter.com/sell_therebucks

Tweet, tweet!

All the new jinx.tv site updates

It's come to my attention that some people visiting this blog may not have the best english skills. Or it could be me not enunciating properly? If someone is a non-native english speaker, as someone who is always trying to follow the convos of people around me who are speaking another language (in my case, spanish) I can certainly sympathize with how much harder it is to understand what people are saying vs. what they've written down. For that reason, I'm going to try and post a nice balance of both written and video stuff.

Had some exciting updates on the site today. Well, exciting to me. So here's all the recent updates...

1.) added text to http://jinx.tv that tells when the last transaction took place

2.) added link to this blog to http://jinx.tv

3.) added link to my "therebucks" twitter account to http://jinx.tv (before the link only showed up when I ran out of Therebucks, now it's near the bottom of the page all the time.)

4.) added "status" link (it's in AJAX!) to http://sell.jinx.tv to help notify sellers about payment times...good for when I'm sleeping, or out of town (although I have a netbook and a fancy phone that I can do most transactions with it still causes delays) or am paying a few days late due to a MASSIVE influx of Therebucks and/or a dirty rotten scammer (knock on wood.)

5.) added link to this blog to http://sell.jinx.tv

6.) added link to my SELLER SPECIFIC Twitter account on http://sell.jinx.tv

and also...

7.) Created the http://twitter.com/sell_therebucks account and even made a first post to it!

So, things are looking good. I figure it's like when my cat had cancer...things can feel a little overwhelming sometimes, but if you do just a LITTLE bit every day, before you know it you've accomplished a lot.

Oh, I'm so dumb though. I wanted to email all past buyers so I went into my database and extracted out the 13,500 rows of data containing avatar buy Therebucks transactions, and then I put them in a Google Docs spreadsheet (although to complicate things, a table can only hold 10,000 rows), sorted it alphabetically by name and then removed all the dupe names...BY HAND. Yes, it took hours.

Okay, so then I wanted to do the same thing again with the sellers list, which is shorter...less than 5,000 rows of data but still quite a task. I had sorted alphabetically and then extracted duplicates up to the letter "C" when I thought to myself "I wonder if there is a spreadsheet function that can remove duplicate lines." So I googled it and...there IS and it's really EASY! Basically I just had to add "=UNIQUE(A2:A4110)" to a data cell and that's IT. It was so quick and easy...think of all those hours I wasted because I didn't do that simple google search earlier!

The only downside was that afterwards I realized it was case sensitive, so if someone had submitted requests that said for instance, "JohnSmith", "johnsmith", "Johnsmith" and "JoHnSmItH", they probably got an email from me for EACH spelling variation. Consider that your punishment for inconsistency! :P I guess I'll have to go back over the file now and check for those caps dupes.

Anyway, I guess I better go eat some freshly baked bread and then practice Rock Band Beatles (cuz we're making everyone do it at our Halloween party and I want to make sure we know how it works first. Hey, maybe I can be just a teeny bit better than most everyone else, too!)

See you in There!

Reasons you may not get Therebucks in 3 minutes

Over 95% of all buyers receive their Therebucks from http://jinx.tv within 3 minutes, but then there are the few transactions that don't. Usually the reasons why are easy to fix, or even better...prevent! So here's what you can do to make sure you get the Therebucks you bought in 3 minutes or less...