My Useful Web

Although lots of people are earning from ebay but for small time auctioneers the fees could be too much especially if the listing doesn’t get sold.

Well, I have found other auction sites that are rather more friendly than ebay especially for small time auctioneers.

Gumtree: Gumtree is like a one-stop site for everything from rooms to jobs to dating. It’s more of an online community where people can either buy, sell or swap things.

Swoopo.com: If you sign up they give you a £10 welcome bonus and biddings go up by a penny to 7 pence. Timer runs between 10-20 minutes and if you cannot be online to bid you can set up your accunt to bid for you. You can also bid by phone which cost 50p per call and the items are delivered and as I understand they are not sent by post. So you pay for the delivery.

There are some more like lowestbideurope.co.uk, ebid.net, and uk.madbid.com

And there’s also a localized online shop called cheapcycle which is a yahoo group and listing is absolutely free and since it’s a localized groupings it’s easy to contact the seller.

I heard about this site from my friend and she told me that they offer the cheapest calling cards to the Philippines. You set up an account with a debit or credit card and then you don’t have to enter your payment details again the next time you buy a card. Cards are worth £3-£5 each and how much time to call a Philippine mobile number or a landline. Usually you get more airtime to call a landline. The more card you purchase the more savings you get. A card expires 30-90 days after the first usage. This is an awesome site that created especially to serve Filipinos in the UK. They are also tied up with Globe and Smart networks and you can top up your roaming Philippine sim online.

My rating for this site is 5/5

Do you just love star gazing? How about a spectacular comet show? Do you have to wait till it gets dark before you can watch the stars and the constellations? How would you love to explore our galaxy, learn how dusts form into stars and planets, watch the sky hundreds of years ago? Yes, they are all possible now. Thanks to Worldwide Telescope, now the universe is at our fingertips.

Worldwide Telescope is a visualization software that allows you to explore the universe from your PC.  It was created by Microsoft and is still in beta version.

Worldwide Telescope is a great help for budding, aspiring, and the frustrated astronomers.

Meanwhile if you are not ready to download the software you can see the still images of some spectacular celestial wonders from www.google.com/sky

My husband is a huge fan of free movies. He always watches movies when he’s relaxing. Most of the time he watches them online and one of his favorite sites is www.watch-movies.net where movies are free.  That’s right, movies are free. You can also watch new released movies however you might not get a good one some other time as people just record movies from theatres and upload them on the site. But some movies have good qualities and sometimes there are multiple downloads where you can choose the best because there are feedbacks that tell you the percentage of satisfied watchers.

I have been able to watch the Dark Knight and Indiana Jones myself and they were not bad for a free movie.

Last night I was going to watch RocknRolla but it was just not good at this time. Maybe I’ll have to wait for a couple of weeks more before I can get a better one.

So far the not-so-old and not-so-new movies have all been good. You can choose by genres and the options are just great.

You don’t need to download a viewer to watch the movies from www.watch-movies.net. The movies play online by megavideo or yuoku. Usually the first one is better than the latter and it loads faster.

So the next time you fancy a movie just go to www.watch-movies.net

I think I have one of the smartest husbands in the world when it comes to shopping. I have never met a man quite like him. He knows which store offers the cheapest price for specific grocery items. I often hear him say, “In Asda the pasta is cheaper. In Lidle the juice is cheaper. In Sainsbury, the rice is better.” and things like that. In that case we go shopping to different stores. However we do most of our shopping at Tesco because they offer discounts on top of the club card points which you can redeem as discount voucher.

Hubby almost always buys organic foods which obviously cost more in this part of the world. He doesn’t mind spending more as long as he is sure he’s eating healthy foods. With rising cost of fuels, everything goes up in the shop. So we need to be wise and smart in order to stretch our money.

But of course sometimes we don’t always get the best deal as we don’t really check all stores for the prices before doing the shopping. But thanks to mySupermarket.com which I find very handy because it allows you to compare prices from Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, and Ocado. Navigation is very easy as you switch from one store to another to compare prices.

As it is with most websites, you need to register to use the service but there’s nothing to worry about because it’s free.

This is my first website review and I hope many will find it as useful as I do.

I was looking for train and bus tickets for London from Norwich. I heard that there were promotion or cheap, cheap fares to London or anywhere in the UK provided you book early. So I was combing the webs for sites that would offer the best train or bus ticket. And I stumbled with this site, www.MoneySavingExpert.com which is created by Martin Lewis. It gave me the link to £1 Funfares to and from London and other parts of the UK.

 Martin Lewis is a brilliant guy and his site offers a lot of tips on money saving including car insurance. It’s not that he gives all the information. He invites users to his site to share their knowledge and experiences about finances and through these people others can compare offers from companies and who gives the best deals.

MoneySavingExpert.com covers tips on all types of finances like card loans, shopping, banking, claims, insurance, travel, health, and home mortage. It’s really worth a visit.