NICE ONE! E-bay for handmade goods
Thanks to Stoffel our fountain of knowledge that always let’s us know what’s going on on the web. And he always sends us such fabulous things – sharpile mf’ethu. It’s a site taht sells all things handmade. Exclusivity! The only South African on the site is a company called Oddeity but they didn’t have any items on sale – let’s hope they’re sold out. If you make beasutiful goods by hand… and need to sell them, here is your outlet! Dollars nogal. “I like this new site Etsy.com – it’s sort of an eBay meets handmade goods shop. “Your place to buy and sell all things handmade.” Items for sale are tagged by materials used, as well as categories, and colors. There is also a geo-locator, and a fascinating time machine function, which allows you to see items that were just recently sold. Still in beta, the site look very good and quite promising. It’s a great place to find gifts you wont see anywhere else. ” Josh Spears....
Tattoo Convention on the Rocks in Umhlanga
There’s a tattoo convention in Durbs on the 12 and 13 November – we don’t know much about it except that there will be LIVE SUSPENSION show (yuk!), prizes for the best tattoos and of course lots of jolling… Click here for the website. The featured tattoo artists are: Anima Mundi (Benoni), Body Art (Dbn), Buzz (Vere…eniging), Dragon Fire (V.D Bijl Park), Eagle Tattoos (Dbn), Electric Eye (Umhlanga), Evolution (Roodepoort), Keep it Real (Pta), Lightning Tattoos (Fochville), Phoenix Tattoo Parlour (N.W), Rocky’s Kustom Tattoos (E.R), Rudy’s Tattoos (Centurion & Pta), Scorpion Tattoos (Pmb) Skin Tattoo Industries (Jhb), TA2000AD (Pretoria), Tattoolya, Wildfire (C.T), & more artists to be confirmed....
There’s no spin like Telkom spin.
We know we’ve already got a few hot and heavy words on Telkom from our readers, but we believe the more words the more pressure the more change. We’re particularly irritated as our ADSL has been down all day today and just came back on now. Unacceptable. If you haven’t seen the site MYADSL check it out… very interesting. Thanks to Andrew for this ve… nting… keep ’em coming. “You’d think that if you were a company with a monopoly position, huge profits and provided essential services at exorbitant prices, the very least you could do would be to be nice to your customers. Evidently not, according to the Telkom method. This seems to state that the route to take is to screw your customer royally, and then be obnoxiously rude to them when they complain. Everyone I know, and quite a few people that I don’t, know my personal feelings for Telkom’s unethical pricing practices in South Africa. It has long been my personal hobbyhorse that Telkom needs to be forcibly tamed and then dragged into the twenty-first century. Lately it seems that the mutterings and murmurings of the similarly disenchanted are starting to reach the public ear. Over the last couple of weeks in almost every publication that I have read, there seems to be some complaint or negative story about Telkom (I liked the story about Suzanne Vos, the IFP MP, who went to a Halloween party dressed as a Telkom bill – it was the scariest thing that she could think of). This bad press has ranged from a front-page article in The Citizen with the headline “TELKOM RIPOFF” (couldn’t have said it better myself) to more technical articles in the IT press about the monopoly’s new ADSL pricing system. Which brings us to Telkom’s biggest and loudest critic: Rudolph Muller and www.MyADSL.co.za , an online community website dedicated to consumer issues in the broadband market. MyADSL has more than 7000 registered users, which is quite a significant number when you consider that there are only approximately 150000 broadband users in South Africa. Mr. Muller, with the support of his members (from disparate backgrounds and interests) has been pressing Telkom for action to make broadband Internet more affordable since 2003. The site itself has a huge following and was included in the Financial Mail’s top five sites for 2004, and the large member base has formed a vibrant online community. MyADSL was the group that created the pressure for ICASA to hold hearings on Telkom’s ADSL offering, which resulted in draft recommendations that were highly critical of Telkom. Muller is often quoted in articles about...
Smirnoff SECRET party – are u up for the Ice House?
All our Joburg party people, we have our hands on one pair of the most desirable tickets this week, for the secret Smirnoff Ice House Party on Saturday night 12 November at a secret location… Seen as these tickets are so HOT HOT HOT we have to make a slightly more difficult question than usual for those Represent citizens that want to win…. But firstly, you have to be a Rep…resent Subscriber to win, so make sure that you have subscribed. Email the answer to the following question to Editor@represent.co.za. What is the ultimate vodka called?...
Happy Happy 119th BIrthday to Joburg!!!!
HEY JOZI IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!! Yes, it’s our birthday, so party if you want to!!!! Please send your birthday wishes to our fabulous city in our comments section! Happy Happy Birthday Jozi, your streets and beats fuel the energy that keeps our bodies and minds moving on and up towards a shimmering glimmering future. Happy...
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