If you intend to make an online purchase, it is important that you research the product as well as the seller before you go ahead and handover any money. For any equipment such as bicycles, camping or sport and fitness equipment you need to be more careful. This is because these items are generally more expensive.
If the product you are purchasing is brand new, then check with the seller if any warranties or guarantees are provided with the product. Also what comeback do you have if the item is damaged or broken.
Ideally, it's better if you're buying a brand new sporting item. This is because it is likely that the item has been used by someone else and may be unclean.
Many of the free classifieds you will see for sporting goods; both in newspapers, magazines and online, are for second hand products. It is important to remember that these items will very rarely come with a return policy attached to them. Therefore you need to look carefully at the product and do as much research before purchasing in case it is not ideal for what you want.
If you are in contact with the seller by email then arrange with them to send extra images and information relating to the product. If it's a tent or a bicycle, ask them to provide you with photographs taking from various angles. This way you will be able to see just what sort of condition the item is in.
Before you make any purchase, it is advisable to speak directly with the seller by email or on the phone. This way you will be able to ask them more pertinent questions with regards to the condition of the item you are thinking of purchasing. It is at this stage that you can find out the reasons why they are selling the item. Sometimes you may well find that the item you are interested in is not a personal item but a job lot that the seller is trying to get rid of quickly.
Be wary of sellers who use standard advertisement photographs from other websites or from sales brochures to advertise their products. It's these people you should once again be asking to provide further photographs so you can really see what condition the equipment is in. If they are unwilling to supply further photographs of the item for sale or provide you with answers to your questions then walk away immediately and look elsewhere for the same item.
Make sure you take the time to learn about the product and the seller before making a more informed decision about your purchase. So never rush into making the first purchase, but spend time looking closely at all the other adverts that have similar products for sale.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Twenty20 - Sustainable Cricket?
This week was a bad one for the little ones most dearly beloved form of the game. It seemed that 2008 was an absolute watershed time for T20 format. The first season of IPL, for Stanford Millions competition in West Indies, and of course the T20 World Cup, won respectively by India. But 2009, and especially this last week, has proved a real test for the form known as "Hollywood Cricket"
The man at the center of it all is an American businessman Allan Stanford. Stanford back in 2008 famously rolled into the house cricket, Lords, with a basket full of money, and quickly won friends.
His inaugural tournament on the ground in honor of his name in Antigua, I saw several West Indian teams, play the best side in the County of England and the England cricket team. On the get-go was a real feeling of competition to the farce. Why is the West Indian players to a team called the Stanford Superstars? Why does the national team to engage in what was to create a competitive franchise? The answer was of course a huge dollar ... in fact $ 20 million or so.
The first sign of problems was that the game was sold in the cricket trip to a man who professed to have no interest in the actual game. But cash strapped West Indian, and for some reason Poms, jumped straight into bed with the Texan. Another sign of problems with Stanford was extraordinary footage of the Billionaire's wife cavorting with the English players in the game competitive.
But still, despite the fact that the players made it clear that the situation was becoming increasingly uncomfortable, with the powerful lure to the T20 and the dollars that came with it were too refused.
First came word last week that the Stanford millions, in fact, were largely based on fraud, it really should be as no surprise. Suddenly the egg on the face of cricket administrators were so obvious that even can not shrug them. Much has been written about the incredible lengths that the game will go to attract corporate funding. The cash cow of T20 previously unquestioned. Now, of course, Stanford Millions will be revoked, and reports suggest that many of the West Indian players were said to invest their money back into prizes Stanford's deceptive trade practices, which currently does not even show it to U.S. dollars.
Another blow to T20 is the extension of the players who nominally to withdraw from the upcoming IPL tournament. Already the number of Australian Mitchell Johnson and Michael Clark have confirmed their lack of interest from competitors, and now Ricky Ponting, who was indeed quite weak for the Kolkata Knight Riders, has pulled out. With cricket schedule so packed is increasingly conscience will call for players juggling money and national interests. In fact, talking about juggling, what needs to be said for the England cricket team, which learned about the richness of their forthcoming were allowed to participate in the IPL, and then got skittled 51 by one of the weakest teams in the world. Certainly the players are now seeing that perhaps juggling act is increasingly difficult. What seemed easy money are you sure something else.
T20 came around incredibly quickly. Of course, it has the level of English life for quite some time, but the fact we had an international world cup competition and the inaugural franchise so soon after the beginning of the game is remarkable. I wonder about the true longevity of the shortest game. Games are definitely leaving, but there is no room for subtlety and intrigue, players, or demolish it and get the border or smash and leave. If one of the main arguments against the ODI's is their identity, perhaps the same is only multiplied in T20. For each "David Warner" Moment, there is a lot of relative identity. Six Smash ... ... ... Smash Out.
As the money dries world the only real incentive to engage in the game will also be reduced. So far there are no real results at a one-off T20 International is seen as between Australia and South Africa and New Zealand, in summer this year. These games are almost International friendlies, as the main attraction of the IPL has been in the game and his wealth. However, as stated, if the U.S. dollars dry up or lost in such an unfair situation as that of Allan Stanford, and then not only the administrators have to think about the real objective of the game, but they will also have to question their decisions before they jump into bed with each gung ho businessman with buck.
David Siddall is cricket and sports writer. When he's not plotting the fall of Australians in the Ashes series next year editions successful cricket website, which has great articles and content. For more articles visit as a Cricket World Watch.
The man at the center of it all is an American businessman Allan Stanford. Stanford back in 2008 famously rolled into the house cricket, Lords, with a basket full of money, and quickly won friends.
His inaugural tournament on the ground in honor of his name in Antigua, I saw several West Indian teams, play the best side in the County of England and the England cricket team. On the get-go was a real feeling of competition to the farce. Why is the West Indian players to a team called the Stanford Superstars? Why does the national team to engage in what was to create a competitive franchise? The answer was of course a huge dollar ... in fact $ 20 million or so.
The first sign of problems was that the game was sold in the cricket trip to a man who professed to have no interest in the actual game. But cash strapped West Indian, and for some reason Poms, jumped straight into bed with the Texan. Another sign of problems with Stanford was extraordinary footage of the Billionaire's wife cavorting with the English players in the game competitive.
But still, despite the fact that the players made it clear that the situation was becoming increasingly uncomfortable, with the powerful lure to the T20 and the dollars that came with it were too refused.
First came word last week that the Stanford millions, in fact, were largely based on fraud, it really should be as no surprise. Suddenly the egg on the face of cricket administrators were so obvious that even can not shrug them. Much has been written about the incredible lengths that the game will go to attract corporate funding. The cash cow of T20 previously unquestioned. Now, of course, Stanford Millions will be revoked, and reports suggest that many of the West Indian players were said to invest their money back into prizes Stanford's deceptive trade practices, which currently does not even show it to U.S. dollars.
Another blow to T20 is the extension of the players who nominally to withdraw from the upcoming IPL tournament. Already the number of Australian Mitchell Johnson and Michael Clark have confirmed their lack of interest from competitors, and now Ricky Ponting, who was indeed quite weak for the Kolkata Knight Riders, has pulled out. With cricket schedule so packed is increasingly conscience will call for players juggling money and national interests. In fact, talking about juggling, what needs to be said for the England cricket team, which learned about the richness of their forthcoming were allowed to participate in the IPL, and then got skittled 51 by one of the weakest teams in the world. Certainly the players are now seeing that perhaps juggling act is increasingly difficult. What seemed easy money are you sure something else.
T20 came around incredibly quickly. Of course, it has the level of English life for quite some time, but the fact we had an international world cup competition and the inaugural franchise so soon after the beginning of the game is remarkable. I wonder about the true longevity of the shortest game. Games are definitely leaving, but there is no room for subtlety and intrigue, players, or demolish it and get the border or smash and leave. If one of the main arguments against the ODI's is their identity, perhaps the same is only multiplied in T20. For each "David Warner" Moment, there is a lot of relative identity. Six Smash ... ... ... Smash Out.
As the money dries world the only real incentive to engage in the game will also be reduced. So far there are no real results at a one-off T20 International is seen as between Australia and South Africa and New Zealand, in summer this year. These games are almost International friendlies, as the main attraction of the IPL has been in the game and his wealth. However, as stated, if the U.S. dollars dry up or lost in such an unfair situation as that of Allan Stanford, and then not only the administrators have to think about the real objective of the game, but they will also have to question their decisions before they jump into bed with each gung ho businessman with buck.
David Siddall is cricket and sports writer. When he's not plotting the fall of Australians in the Ashes series next year editions successful cricket website, which has great articles and content. For more articles visit as a Cricket World Watch.
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