Matt Ellsworth – SEO Consultant & Internet Marketer

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Recently contacted Enterprise Rent A Car to get a car for an upcoming trip. I had to call three locations to find one that even had cars in stock – the other two didn’t, but the website said they did. That is something that the first guy said is "above his pay grade".

The third location then explained that if you do not want to use a credit card – and would rather use a debit card, then you have to provide them with your utility bill and pay stub – and have the address match your license. In addition they put a $300 hold on the debit card plus the cost of your rental.

Clearly something has gone horribly wrong in this country when companies are penalizing people and businesses who choose to pay for what they need with cash / debit card instead of making the credit card companies even more money. Requesting that people show a rental car company their utility bill and pay stub is terrible. Shame on Enterprise Rent A Car.

It’s not a matter of not having a credit card, its the point that you should be able to pay with cash, credit or debit without having to give someone a utility bill and a pay stub.

Hopefully other rental car companies are not this rude to their cash paying customers.

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I’ve been helping a friend try to recover a stolen domain name (was at GoDaddy) for the last week. Someone logged into the account, changed the email, and all the information on the account to something in India.

Then they transferred the domain name out of the account to a protected name service at name.com

That was over 3 months ago. GoDaddy never emailed to say "are you sure you want to change all your account info, or email address, or transfer this domain". Instead he was left blind sided by all this. Until the hacker changed his password – then he realized that something was up.

When he did discover that all this had happened – and contacted GoDaddy – they said that there was nothing they could do.

I’m pretty stumped as to how all this happened without GoDaddy so much as notifying the customer that their account information had been stolen. But this certainly doesn’t make me think too highly of GoDaddy.

I am still hopeful that they will be able to recover the domain name.

He spoke with someone who looked into it all and found out that the registrant info was never changed before they transferred the domain. This was likely because of the icann rules that say that you can’t transfer a domain name within 60 days of changing the registrant info.

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Yicrosoft Directory is the contest term for an seo contest sponsored by SEoNoob. We decided to enter our site www.yicrosoft-directory.biz/ just to see what happens with it. So far over night the number of results for this term have gone from 10 to 420 in Google. Should be an interesting contest!
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I never thought i would be happy to swap an audi for a chevy. But i am thrilled about it and wish i did it sooner.

Update 2011:
sure it was nice at first… but the brakes had issues until we put after market ones on (3 different dealers couldn’t figure it out). The emission sensors started to fail around 3 years. The door locks have issues, and the heat doesn’t work when the car is idling (you have to be moving). Overall it’s a pretty poorly built piece of american engineering. It runs like a tank in the snow though.

after seeing all of the issues with onstar and their privacy issues, still makes me question whose running govstar.

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Reading the 4 hour work week
while waiting in the waiting room and im shocked at how much i like it. You should read it.

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clipped from www.suckypoems.com Note: I was just thinking of the song American Pie and the following just came out in the last few minutes. Must be my constant thinking about one day being financially free and kicking back. So bye-bye to the month of July No vacation at my occupation Because I’m one of the new guys I work 100 hours per week and then start to cry Singin’ this is how my social life died This is how my social life died

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clipped from today.reuters.com Newlyweds caught in drag race SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian newlyweds kissing on the backseat of their hired car were unaware their chauffeur was street drag racing, until a police siren broke their romantic bliss and ended the race. The chauffeur, clocked at up to 130 kph (80 mph) racing a young driver in a rental car, was fingerprinted on the side of the road and the hire car confiscated. “It’s alleged that as the traffic light turned green both the (cars) accelerated harshly from the intersection and continued to travel at speed along the highway,” police said in a statement. Both drivers were taken away by police, while newlyweds John and Laina Tauranga were escorted home in a police car.

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clipped from today.reuters.com Itsy-bitsy pink bikini gets serviceman jail SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A Singapore national serviceman who sashayed into a lift early one morning wearing only a pink bikini has been handed a day’s jail and a S$11,000 ($7,529) fine by a court in the city-state, a newspaper said on Tuesday. Tan Wen Zhong, 21, admitted to five charges, including “outraging the modesty” of the woman who shared the lift with him and “fraudulent possession of women’s underwear,” Singapore’s Straits Times reported. The paper said a subsequent police search of his apartment turned up 46 pieces of women’s underwear and bikinis as well as four obscene films.

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clipped from www.articlesnatch.com I’m attending the Ross Goldberg’s Masters Internet Marketing Seminar Are You? clipped from www.articlesnatch.com I just completed my registration for Ross Goldberg’s Masters Internet Marketing Seminar in Las Vegas Nevada on January 25 – 27, 2008. I would love to meet you at this event. The guest list is huge and it includes Internet Marketing Masters: Make sure you register soon though – there are only 150 seats and I know they will sell out fast so go register now.

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