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WHO ARE FROOITION?

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Frooition are the WORLD leading specialists in multi-channel branding for online marketplaces. Working with industry leading market makers: eBay, eBay Express, Amazon and with several established strategic partnerships including ChannelAdvisor and Paypal, Frooition utilizes long-standing eBay expertise and world-leading technologies and services to advise and partner its’ retail and manufacturing customers to exploit the new online marketplace opportunities.
Through our CreativeBay division, customers can acquire world leading eBay store design and branding. With our ServiceBay division, we offer a comprehensive range of services to suit your specific circumstances. These range from establishing an online marketplace presence, to implementing and supporting volume e-tail solutions (run by the client themselves, or managed on an outsourced basis by Frooition), and increasing visitor pull and revenue growth. This all comes with the experience and credibility of our proven track record. Frooition bring these best-of-breed products and services together to ensure that its’ customers are able to rapidly grow highly cost-efficient and professional online businesses.
The founders behind Frooition originally developed their expertise graduating as eBay Titanium Power Sellers before transforming the business to focus on solutions for businesses. Frooition has built an experienced team of developers, graphics professionals and online consultants who have combined their leading-edge expertise to deliver online marketplace solutions that have successfully enabled hundreds of customers to exploit the eBay phenomenon.
WHY USE FROOITION?
In a word, CREDIBILITY. To-date over 2000 companies (including major high street names such as Butlins, Dialaphone, Hitchens and category leading eBay Powersellers such as iSold it and Retrowarez) have taken advantage of our foresight, experience and services development that many have classed ahead of it’s time.

Start Low - Sell High!! Make Money online today!

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Starting your auctions at 99pence with no reserve is by far the best way to get interest on your items that you're selling on eBay. A low start price gains interest and brings in many more bids on your items and creates a 'snow ball' effect on those bids.iSold It stores run the majority of its auctions this way, and on average generates higher sell prices than its competing listings. 

Take a look at the following article from the Telegraph with some interesting research on how items sell better when started at a low price.For a high price on eBay, ask for very littleBy Richard TylerLast Updated: 1:10am GMT 31/10/2006eBay traders make more money if they begin their auctions with a low asking price, a research study has found.Academics set up online auctions for digital cameras, Persian rugs and T-shirts and found that if a low price generated interest in the item it would achieve a higher price overall because of what they termed "auction fever". "Regardless of whether it's a unique item or a commodity, we found that starting low, as long as this results in traffic, means ending high," said Gillian Ku, professor at London Business School, who conducted the study with colleagues at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, in Illinois.The Nikkon cameras sold for $312 when the auction started at 1 cent, but only $204 when they began at a more sensible price. The same was seen for the rugs.Ms Ku said that the volume of bidders influenced their perception of the value of the items on offer."Just because an item has a lot of people bidding on it, they perceive it as a valuable item. Other people then start jumping on to the bandwagon," she said. Another advantage of starting low was it enticed people in to the auction, who would then invest time in it and find it harder to walk away when the price rose.Setting a reserve price decreases the probability of a sale, Ms Ku said, although on average these auctions achieved a higher price for the seller. Buyers can get the upper hand if they search auction sites for items that may have been spelt incorrectly.When testing the T-shirts, the academics advertised 76 featuring Michael Jordan, the basketball star: 43 were spelt correctly and 33 said Micheal. They found that potential buyers simply did not find the T-shirts that were spelt incorrectly and so these achieved a lower price.

eBay on your Mobile - oneday- Apple iPhone!

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Mobile phone users in Europe can now easily access eBay through their mobile via the Pocket Auction application by Bango and Bonfire Media. eBay sellers and buyers can download the application to bid, buy, search, and check their My eBay accounts at any time. O2’s i-mode also lets customers of that network to access their eBay accounts easily, but Pocket Auctions provides an alternative for other network users. The applications also features viewing of full-screen images, a fast user interface and rapid loading times. Mobile phone users should go to bango.bonfiremedia.com to download Pocket Auctions; they will be charged by operator billing, premium SMS, credit/debit card, or PayPal.

Phishing email and scams

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There are quite a few ways people try to scam eBay sellers. These include phishing or spoofing.Phishing is when a scammer sends a spoof email in order to steal an eBay or PayPal account so it can be used to scam others. The spoof email looks like an official eBay email, but leads to fake login pages on other sites. Three examples of phishing emails are:"Account Suspension" emails, "Your item has been shipped" emails, andfake questions about items for sale.Protecting Yourself From Phishing EmailsBy learning to spot and avoid spoof emails, you can protect yourself from phishers out to steal your accounts. Here are four ways to protect yourself:
Check URL to ensure it's from a real site. (In the address bar at the top of your browser check that you are actually at ebay.co.uk or ebay.com etc)
If your not sure forward emails to spoof@ebay.co.uk or spoof@paypal.com, for confirmation of whether the email is a spoof or not.
Always log in to eBay and PayPal from a bookmark or by typing the URL into your browser's address bar.
Install eBay toolbar to your browser, this will help identify if you are redirected to a non-ebay/paypal account. go to http://pages.ebay.co.uk/ebay_toolbar/ and download for free.

eBay Scams online scams - take care!

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Here's a common scam that I've come across a few times on eBay. You sell an item and ship to the winning bidder, then this buyer finds something wrong with your item (like a chip in a pottery item, or superficial damage to the packaging) and asks for a partial refund. Negotiators tend to get a lot of negative feedback and usually have a low number of feedbacks because they use multiple eBay accounts. At Frooition we advise our customers not to give partial refunds unless we've truly made a mistake in the description. They always politely tell unhappy buyers to send the item back and they will refund everything including shipping both ways. These 'negotiators' are banking on that you'll find it less hassle to refund 10% via Paypal then to arrange for the item to be sent back.

Write a good eBay description

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At its heart, your eBay item description is an advert. Without making it too obvious, you should be writing sales copy. You’re trying to get buyers excited about your products, and that’s usually hard - but on eBay, if you have the right thing to sell and give enough details, the buyers almost excite themselves.Technical Details.Include every technical detail you know, including the item’s manufacturer, its condition, how big it is, where and when it was made, its history, and anything else special about it. Don’t be too boring, though: the best descriptions are written in friendly, conversational language, and show a real knowledge of the item. Whatever you do, make sure you tell the truth!Remember that most of the people who’ll be buying your item will be just as knowledgeable about it as you are, if not more - this is their hobby, and they’re experts. Don’t feel like you need to explain the basics of the item: just go into as much technical detail as you can. As a rule, don’t write anything in the description if you don’t know what it means, as the chances are someone will, and if you’ve got it slightly wrong then you’ll look like you don’t know what you’re talking about.Interesting Details.You might find that you enjoy writing a few things about how you got the item, why you’re selling it, and who you think might like it. This isn’t strictly necessary, but it gives your auctions some character and a personal touch, and can make people more likely to trust you. People might wonder what you’re doing selling 500 CDs all at once, and if you tell them the reason, then they’ll feel reassured that nothing dodgy is going on. If you’re selling them because you’re having a baby and you need the space, just say so.Write as Much as You Can.Leave nothing out of your description, even if that seems to you like it makes it very long. There is no way you can be too thorough: someone, somewhere will appreciate that you took the time to write the extra information.Don’t assume that anyone who wants extra information will email you to ask a question: many buyers are shy and won’t do it. Think of questions that buyers might have and add the answers to your description, as people generally tend to ask the same questions over and over again.Each time a buyer does email you with a question, you should both answer their question and update your description so that it will include the answer next time. If people ask questions that are answered in the description, try putting these parts of the auction on a line alone, or in bold, to make them easier to notice.

Protect yourself against online fraud!

The biggest issue that many of us face with online fraud and protecting ourselves from it - is simply that we don't know what to look for. Scammers and fraudsters are not simple hackers who target our credit cards and accounts as one-off one-hit deals. These kind of people are extremely organised, they go to work each day just like you and I and target the Internet on a global scale. People like you and I probably can't imagine the scale of some of these scams. It's big business and highly lucrative so don't be in any doubt that fraudsters are well organised and highly intelligent.
So in light of all this, what can we do?
A few simple tips:
1. Always cover your hands when entering a pin number - everywhere you go - cash machines are easily targeted with micro cameras which can record your card numbers and your pin number.
2. Don't let the card out of your sight. Any respectable establishment will respect your privacy - if not, you have to wonder why?
3. Make sure you only buy online through well know and trusted web sites - This is the one to watch!! SCAMMERS CAN MAKE THEIR WEBSITES LOOK LIKE WELL KNOWN, TRUSTED AND ESTABLISHED WEBSITES. Therefore, if you don't know how to spot the difference you need to find out how. Here's some useful links:

http://www.getsafeonline.org/

http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/personal-offer.html

4. Never pay with cash or instant money transfers, such as Western Union or MoneyGram. These methods of payment are banned on eBay because they are unsafe

5. Never reply to emails that ask for your personal information to protect yourself from identity theft and other crimes

Remember that most scammers prey on the naive so don't panic - it's easy to avoid most scams by following the above basic tips.

Securing your personal computer and protecting computers you might use in a classroom setting plays a crucial role in protecting our nation's Internet infrastructure. Moreover, teaching our children on how to become cyber citizens now will better ensure they don't become cyber crime victims in the future.

Our focus is on helping K-12 educators, administrators and professionals as well as University professors, executives and IT administrators to develop programs that help empower students, faculty and school administrators to take personal responsibility for keeping personal and public computers secure.

This website provides information onyou can teach to help safeguard your student's computers, K-12 Curriculum that educators can use in classrooms, educational materials and other Internet resources, as well as valuable information from our

The National Cyber Security Alliance working in conjunction with i-Safe Inc. produced a Cyber Security Assembly In-a-Box Toolkit. This toolkit provides educators with a plug-in play solution for presenting cyber security awareness messages and tips to students in middle and high schools. The material is delivered in a way that is entertaining for students and easy to understand.

National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2006 - NCSA/USA Today Lessons

During National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we're asking all educators to teach a different cyber security, safety and ethics lesson each week during National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

To make it easier for educators, NCSA teamed up with USA Today Education Foundation and Symantec to develop topical lesson plans, which will be released each week during NCSAM 06.

Help Keep Kids Connected and Protected on Social Networking Websites

is a guide designed by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to provide online safety and security tips for educators, parents, and guardians. This guide offers educators tips to use when talking to their students about practicing safe online behavior and it offers parents and guardians tips for helping children ages 12-17 navigate the online social scene safely.

Social networking sites are the hippest new meeting places around. These sites enable people to post information about themselves and communicate with others around the world using forums, interest groups, blogs, chat rooms, email, and instant messaging. While you can make new friends through social networking sites, you may also be exposed to embarrassing situations and people who have bad intentions, such as hackers, identity thieves, con artists, and predators. Protect yourself by taking some common-sense precautions.

• Guard your financial and other sensitive information. Never provide or post your Social Security number, address, phone number, bank account or credit card numbers, or other personal information that could be used by criminals.
• Picture social networking sites as billboards in cyberspace. Police, college admissions personnel, employers, stalkers, con artists, nosy neighbors – anyone can see what you post. Don’t disclose anything about yourself, your friends, or family members that you wouldn’t want to be made public. And remember that once information appears on a Web site, it can never be completely erased. Even if it’s modified or deleted, older versions may exist on others’ computers. Some social networking sites allow users to restrict access to certain people. Understand how the site works and what privacy choices you may have.
• Be cautious about meeting your new cyber friends in person. After all, it’s hard to judge people by photos or information they post about themselves. If you decide to meet someone in person, do so during the day in a public place, and ask for information that you can verify, such as the person’s place of employment.
• Think twice before clicking on links or downloading attachments in emails. They may contain viruses or spyware that could damage your computer or steal your personal information – including your online passwords and account numbers. Some messages may “spoof,” or copy the email addresses of friends to fool you into thinking that they’re from them. Don’t click on links or download attachments in emails from strangers, and if you get an unexpected message from someone whose address you recognize, check with them directly before clicking on links or attachments.
• Protect your computer. A spam filter can help reduce the number of unwanted emails you get. Anti-virus software, which scans incoming messages for troublesome files, and anti-spyware software, which looks for programs that have been installed on your computer and track your online activities without your knowledge, can protect you from online identity theft. Firewalls prevent hackers and unauthorized communications from entering your computer – which is especially important if you have a broadband connection because your computer is open to the Internet whenever it’s turned on. Look for programs that offer automatic updates and take advantage of free patches that manufacturers offer to fix newly discovered problems. Go to or to learn more about how to keep your computer secure.
• Beware of con artists. Criminals scan social networking sites to find potential victims for all sorts of scams, from phony lotteries to bogus employment and business opportunities to investment fraud. In some cases they falsely befriend people and then ask for money for medical expenses or other emergencies, or to come to the United States from another country. Go to to learn more about how to recognize different types of Internet fraud.

Are you sitting on a tidy profit?

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So, you want to raise some extra cash. Well, eBay are running a great promotion at the minute, which helps you realise the amount of money you can generate by selling your unwanted stuff on eBay.

Check out this link and you can go room to room to find the kind of things that selling well on eBay.

The figures are taken from research by The Centre for Economics and Business Research, and shows that you could generate up to £3000 just from your unwanted stuff.

Browser Battles

Nielsen//NetRatings, has revealed the quiet, but steady, erosion of Microsoft’s dominant position over the way we in Britain access and surf the World Wide Web.Internet Explorer is still the main browser of choice for 88% of Britons online, but its share of the market has decreased by 9% over the last two years - both in absolute and relative termsFirefox is now the main browser for almost 12% of Britons online, up from just over 1% in September 2004 – a relative increase in market share of 768%!Alex Burmaster, European Internet Analyst at Nielsen//NetRatings explains
"Whilst IE still dominates the web browser space, and is likely to do so forsome time to come, the growth in take-up of Firefox shouldn’t be ignored. Asidefrom its supporters’ claims of its superior security and functionality, the opensource nature of Firefox and its competition with Microsoft has a huge appeal tothose who believe in the egalitarian and participatory ethos of the Internet. Inother words, Firefox represents, for many, Web 2.0 and IE Web 1.0. "