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We bartered for Paris lodgings
Relax, this is not a commercial message. CASE HISTORY:
We rented an apartment in Paris last May that had been posted by an online rental agent. The apartment's owner observed that the agency, which reps many Paris apartments, shot a group of interior pictures, added some descriptive copy and plugged the listing into their website. When a tenant signs up, the agency collects 5 percent of the fee. No advertising or promotion support is involved. "Why don't you make your own website and shoot your own superior photos? Why don't you post your offering on newsgroups every couple of months?", we asked. "Because I don't know how!" said the apartment owner. "It's easy," and we made him www.ile-st-louis.com, paying $5.41 for the domain registration and a bit more for the hosting. We hadn't had the opportunity to shoot proper pictures but we did have enough souvenir snaps, shot casually, to slap together a site. Now we're returning to the Paris apartment October 5 to reshoot everything (with proper lighting - www.pixsnap.com/normal.htm). In exchange, we're getting two weeks FREE!. Here's my point (at long last!). There are Vacation Exchange clubs and agencies all over the globe. But not everyone can participate. Timing can be a problem. Sometimes location or capacity is a problem. When we had our place on Cape Cod we swapped it with a Marin County family and it worked out great. But we've left the Cape and would not swap our present dwelling because it's just too full of personal clutter. We'd love to go to Ireland, Russia, Egypt, Scotland, Sicily, Provence, Italy, Greece, Seattle, Jackson Hole, WY, and a few dozen other places. Since I'm retired and on a limited budget, it would be nice if we could get to visit any or all of them by bartering a website for a period of lodgings. We think there are others who have some photographic skills and basic site building ability who would love to barter for accommodations. We think there are people who have under-utilized dwellings who would love to see them produce revenue via the internet. (If you check the bottom of the Paris website we built, you'll see that it has had 286 hits since being built in mid-June and has yielded three different sets of tenants.) If this sounds good to you, zap us an email. We've just invested another $5.41 and registered a website, www.holidaybarter.com, and sent it to a free hosting outfit. It's to be used at no cost by any and all who'd like to trade their photographic/web-building skills for lodgings and by those whose farmhouse in Tuscany or penthouse is Rio is awaiting occupancy. This is to be strictly non-commercial. We'll filter all posts that are suspicious. For providing free hosting, Netfirms.com imposes banner ads. If holidaybarter.com takes off, we'll move it to an inexpensive, ad-free host. Let us know where you'd like to go or what lodgings you have to offer. Will get back to you when we return from Paris ... maybe before, since the apartment is online. Sayonara, Barbara & Gene |
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We bartered for Paris lodgings
Mark Roberts wrote:
(Barbara & Gene) wrote: Relax, this is not a commercial message. Riiiiight... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com Yeah, they had me fooled too, I thought they were doing it out of the good of their hearts. -- Paul. (Next in line , Close one eye, Just walk by) -------------------------------------------------------------- Not what it seems... http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
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We bartered for Paris lodgings
BUSTED, er....I think. ???
Your website describes you as a writer (albiet a victim of plagiarism). Why waste words when you can say it all with, "Riiiiight." Witty enough to get my attention, yessiree! Is it possible that you have a thought or more to go with your word? What is suspect about our post? Nothing is for sale, nothing is being charged. The ad banners are incidental because they are the compensation the free host service requires, but otherwise there is no promotional component. We're inviting people to pass their objectives and requirements through us so we can match them intelligently and keep email addresses away from the spammers. Despite this, you detected our dark motives. Spell 'em, writer. Now don't go away mad. At least you're smarter than the bloke who posted below having digested all of the abstract implications of your word. In the land of the blind it's still possible to know it's a duck when it quacks. That's a meta4.tag. Barbara & Gene "Mark Roberts" wrote in message ... (Barbara & Gene) wrote: Relax, this is not a commercial message. Riiiiight... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com |
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We bartered for Paris lodgings
BUSTED, er....I think. ???
Your website describes you as a writer (albeit a victim of plagiarism). Why waste words when you can say it all with, "Riiiiight." Witty enough to get my attention, yessiree! Is it possible that you have a thought to go with your word? What is suspect about our post? Nothing is for sale, nothing is being charged. The ad banners are incidental because they are the compensation the free host service requires, but otherwise there is no promotional component. We're inviting people to pass their objectives and requirements through us so we can match them intelligently and keep email addresses away from the spammers. Despite this, you detected our dark motives. Spell 'em, writer. Now don't go away mad. At least you're smarter than the bloke who posted below having digested all the abstract implications of your word. In the land of the blind it's still possible to determine that it's a duck if it quacks. That's a meta4.tag. Barbara & Gene "Mark Roberts" wrote in message ... (Barbara & Gene) wrote: Relax, this is not a commercial message. Riiiiight... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com |
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We bartered for Paris lodgings
"Barbara& Gene" wrote in message news
You message was spam, there is not question about that. When you get annoyed because your mailbox is full of spam, remember you are one of them. -- Michael Culley |
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We bartered for Paris lodgings
Barbara& Gene wrote:
BUSTED, er....I think. ??? Your website describes you as a writer (albiet a victim of plagiarism). Why waste words when you can say it all with, "Riiiiight." Witty enough to get my attention, yessiree! Is it possible that you have a thought or more to go with your word? What is suspect about our post? Nothing is for sale, nothing is being charged. The ad banners are incidental because they are the compensation the free host service requires, but otherwise there is no promotional component. We're inviting people to pass their objectives and requirements through us so we can match them intelligently and keep email addresses away from the spammers. Despite this, you detected our dark motives. Spell 'em, writer. Now don't go away mad. At least you're smarter than the bloke who posted below having digested all of the abstract implications of your word. In the land of the blind it's still possible to know it's a duck when it quacks. That's a meta4.tag. Barbara & Gene spammers, but touchy too :O) -- Paul. (Next in line , Close one eye, Just walk by) -------------------------------------------------------------- Not what it seems... http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
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We bartered for Paris lodgings
You are a miserable little twit aren't you? While you're looking at the
spelling of Riiiight - you might look at your own signature, Barbara& -- is that some sort of hip hop version of Barbara Anne? Is Barbara the way you usually spell it at all - or don't you know. Are you someone not named Barbara& Gene at all but yet another PITA spammer making up new identities as he gets the old ones killfiled. Or are you just incredibly stupid? I vote for the latter. The complaints should be directed to . -- http://www.chapelhillnoir.com home of The Camera-ist's Manifesto The Improved Links Pages are at http://www.chapelhillnoir.com/links/mlinks00.html New email - Contact on the Menyou page. "Barbara& Gene" wrote in message news BUSTED, er....I think. ??? Your website describes you as a writer (albeit a victim of plagiarism). Why waste words when you can say it all with, "Riiiiight." Witty enough to get my attention, yessiree! Is it possible that you have a thought to go with your word? What is suspect about our post? Nothing is for sale, nothing is being charged. The ad banners are incidental because they are the compensation the free host service requires, but otherwise there is no promotional component. We're inviting people to pass their objectives and requirements through us so we can match them intelligently and keep email addresses away from the spammers. Despite this, you detected our dark motives. Spell 'em, writer. Now don't go away mad. At least you're smarter than the bloke who posted below having digested all the abstract implications of your word. In the land of the blind it's still possible to determine that it's a duck if it quacks. That's a meta4.tag. Barbara & Gene "Mark Roberts" wrote in message ... (Barbara & Gene) wrote: Relax, this is not a commercial message. Riiiiight... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com |
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We bartered for Paris lodgings
I don't know, we have become touchy with spammers.
This email was written specificaly. Spammers churn out machine created posts. Give the guy a break. You don't have to do business. G |
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