The following fresh post was first published on this ezine on Monday, February 26, 2007. If you are the 26th visitor to correctly specify the currently ‘’carved-in-stone'’ frequency with which we publish fresh posts like this, you will receive one of our highly popular DAX Premium Info-Data Systems - the $1,000.00 ‘’DAX Formula For Building A REAL Estate!'’ - the program which, amongst many other things, shows you how to realize upwards of $468,000 CASH per year . . . totally tax-free forever!
email me at: mailto:GiftMeDean@DAXRICH.com and say, ‘’I Live Richly - And Love To get DAXed!'’
And in case you wonder whether we ‘’pay off'’ around here: Two weeks ago, on my birthday (Valentine’s Day), we offered FOUR chances to win big and here are the winners - who have already been sent their freebies:
Winners #1 & #2: Megan O., Sheboygan, WI and Odette S., Malmo, Sweden both emailed me and said those magic words ‘’I Live Richly and Get DAXed Weekly!'’ EACH has been sent gratis the $100.00 ‘’Do It Yourself Wealth!'’ system (I even shelled out for all shipping costs which was forty-dang-bux to Sweden!)
YOU can learn all about the terrific prize they got (and YOU may very well have gotten for free had you bothered to email me!) by clicking here: http://www.daxrich.com/do-it-yourself-wealth/
Winner #3: The 67th visitor to email me and say ‘’Happy Birthday You Ragged Ol’ Valentine!'’ was Harry Collins form Florida who tells me that he had visited us here for the very first time! He has been sent his very own ‘’Du Vall Master Mail Offer Matrix'’ - the first and fastest-seller of our $1,000.00 DAX Premium Info-Data Systems. With that, Harry also received free, a pair of our famous gold ‘n silver color, men’ and women’s faux Rolex wristwatches - gift boxed, of course!
Winner #4: Per the guidelines, after the above folks were selected, we selected one winner from the remaining batch of emailers, and THAT person was Candace E. of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has been sent a very helpful and current DAX ‘’biggie'’ - the ‘’DAX Millionaire’s Web Wealth!”‘ which may help her create a nice fat little fortune from on-line stock trading - the DAX way! That is also an everyday one thousand dollar seller.
Congrats to all of you - and keep telling everybody you can think of to . . . Get DAXed WEEKLY!
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(2) LETTERMAN ‘SMUCKLES:’
‘’I wouldn’t want to call the Anna Nicole Smith legal proceedings a circus, because that would be insulting to the good people at Ringling Brothers.'’
‘’There were so many ne’er-do-wells at the hearing, Jerry Springer had trouble finding available guests for his show.'’
(2) DAX ‘SMUCKLES:’
According to the DRUDGEREPORT.com, someone has spotted the first beaver in NYC in 200 years. DAX wonders if Paris Hilton took the girls on a road trip to the Big Apple . . .
And finally, here’s a ‘’thinker'’ for you:'’ When they pulled Saddam Hussein out of that SPIDER hole and later eradicated him - would that be a case of IRAQI-PHOBIA?
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Someone wrote recently and asked ‘’what the he#* is a ‘’Smuckle?'’ That’s easy: ’tis a combination of a smile and a chuckle . . . not to be confused with a ‘’titfaw,'’ which is a stronger combination - that of a titter and a guffaw . . .
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DEAN’S RANT: Ford Motors Loses Big . . . GOOD!
READERS REACT: Bloated-Bleach-Blond-Bimbo Strikes A Responsive Chord!
MONEY-MAKING: Fabled ‘Kitchen-Table’ Mail Order Profits CAN Be Real!
PONDER THIS: A Few Words From Our Modern-Day ‘’Tricky-Dicky'’
A ‘SITE’ TO BEHOLD: Will You Be One Of Only 40% Of Americans Who Will Retire Financially Independent?
GOOD, BAD & IFFY: For Once, A Few NICE Words! (Plus ONE Bad One!)
DAX-YAX: Listen up!
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DEAN’S RANT: Ford Motors Loses Big . . . GOOD!
Very recently Ford Motor Company announced that the slow-selling Ford 500 Model would henceforth be re-badged as the Ford Taurus - starting in 2008. The latter was one of the best-selling marques in history so, at first blush, one could see WHY the powers-that-be might make that decision. However, it does not set well with actual, in-place Ford 500 OWNERS.
Why? Well, how would you like it if you had just bought a new Cadillac and GM then tells the world that henceforth, the thing will be renamed as oh, let’s say . . . a Chevy! Or, going back to FMC, if they re-badged all Lincolns with a Ford or even a Mercury nameplate, that’s just plain stupid, eh wot?
But then, it’s that sort of corporate wrong-thinking that fails to take into account how the actual, and ultimate CUSTOMER views it all - which has resulted in FMC posting the largest fiscal loss in American business history!
And I’ve gotta tell you, I celebrate Ford Motor Company’s recently announced 2006 LOSS of $12.7 BILLION - which as I say, is the greatest loss in U.S. history! (Of course, that pales in comparison with the TRILLION dollars that you and I and all other taxpayers are losing on that stupid war in Iraq!)
Why, would I be so thrilled to learn of the horrendous and historical failing?
Well, it typifies the reason so many Americans have felt pressured to switch from domestic products to foreign-made in recent years, to wit:
When I first met SuEllen in the autumn of 1990 (October 4 to be exact - I keep track of such things!), she was driving a brand new Chevy Chevette which she liked just fine. I drove it once - it was a tinker toy on wheels and I had nasty visions of what would happen to her if involved in an accident so, I went out and bought her a brand new Burgundy and Tan Eddie Bauer four-wheel-drive Ford Explorer.
We had fun with that car - drove it all over North America - Niagara Falls, Key West, Arkansas, Sedona, Las Vegas, Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore and many other destinations.
Then, the 4wd went flooey. It had less than 20 thousand miles on it, yet WE had to pay several thousand bux to fix it. No longer in warranty.
We then traded it for a brand new Ford Explorer Limited in a pretty pearlescent ivory. Nice car - but it never ‘’tracked'’ as well in snow as its predecessor - despite (surprisingly) having an advanced-designed 4wd system.
Then one day, whilst on the way home by herself, the car simply quit running - on the I-96 Interstate. At the time, SuEllen did not (yet) have a cell phone, she felt it unnecessary - even though for many years, all MY vehicles had built-in phones. One, the blue Rolls (the one pictured in the home page of http://www.DAXFAX.com) had a phone in the back seat, as well as the front. I used to joke that it ‘’saved steps!'’
You can imagine the inconvenience SuEllen experienced before getting the new Explorer towed to a local Ford Dealer. Again, low mileage - only about 8,000 on that one. It cost us $200+ to have it fixed, as the dealership said, ‘’Not a Ford problem!'’ Oh yeah? Well a couple weeks later, I’M driving the beast and it fails just as we get off the toll road in Elkhart. Just as bad as the engine stopping was that both the power steering and brakes failed, as well!
Oh geeze guys, you just do NOT want to treat DFVD that way - ’cause you’re gonna be paying for that one way or t’other - INDEFINITELY - I promise!
Meanwhile, I’m driving nothing BUT foreign cars - British, German or Italian. (I always had a small stable of ‘em in those days). THAT because, in an earlier time, I had also insisted on American cars - Lincolns, Cadillacs, etc. Indeed, within the span of one 9 month period, I bought THREE brand new Cadillac Sevilles for the family’s use.
One’s transmission failed (on the way home from Thanksgiving dinner!), another’s brakes failed on a trip to Florida, and all three had various trim parts - inside and out - simply fall off. One such, poked me in the eye!
SCREW ‘EM!
Well, once we got S.E.’s second Explorer ‘’fixed,'’ we traded it. By the way, we later learned that a class action suit -v- Ford had revealed that the bastards knew all along that there was an inherent flaw in the ignition system - which should not surprise anyone. After all, it was later revealed that the Ford miscreants were knowingly selling other Explorers that were actually KILLING customers when the SUVs rolled over, etc.
At long last, S.E. (who, until then, refused to buy ANYTHING ‘’foreign'’ - good Hoosier Stock that she comes from(!) - convinced herself that she also needed to get away from domestic products and we started buying Lexus models for her - first, a big rear-wheel-drive-only sedan, and then, after the first snow in which the beautiful beast got STUCK - a 4wd SUV!
Not surprising, then - when I recently learned that Ford had suffered a 12.7 BILLION lost last year - I rejoiced! The S.O.B.s are FINALLY getting their comeuppance - and none too soon!
I hope to see these ne’er-do-wells go out of business - totally! The unsupsecting car-buying public deserves that protection!
What really burns me is that currently they DO have several models that appear to be well engineered AND well built - the Lincoln SUV, the Ford Edge and the Ford 500 - which they ridiculously re-badged as a resurrection of the Taurus(!) - and we could use one or two of those vehicles in the fleet.
BUT . . . that’s NOT going to happen! Never will MY $$ be sent in the direction of the Ford derelicts - even though, I’d like to buy a Range Rover for S.E., who has always loved the marque and a Jaguar for myself - one of a very few cars I’ve never owned. They used to be made by fine British manufacturers but are now 100% owned and operated by Ford!
A FORD-FIERY FOOTNOTE:
Right after I ‘’penned'’ the above, I went downtown to buy some stuff and spoke with a woman who told me that her 2001 FORD 350 pickup truck had totally burned to the axles the week before - taking out one side of her house, as well! Ford claimed no responsibility!
I ask you: What possible good is our government if they allow this sort of crap to continue year after year? And further, how DARE anybody ever question the intelligent motives of me or anyone else who has the good sense to ‘’buy foreign'’ instead of the inferior goods made in America nowadays?!
At least Chrysler is still churning out some fairly decent product, although they’re apparently not selling enough to remain afloat - as we hear THAT biz is going up on the auction block, as we speak. Better learn Japanese - looks like the preponderance of ALL future vehicles running around North America will eventually, emanate from the land of the rising sun . . .
-Dean
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READERS REACT: Bloated-Bleach-Blond-Bimbo Strikes A Responsive Chord!
A couple days after last week’s basic post, we added the following to DEAN’S RANT:
P.P.S. (Posted 9:30 P.M. EST, Tuesday, 02.20.07): MY alter ego, super-sleuth Derek Dax just provided me with a plot twist that even the most scandalous tabloids have yet to envisage:
If may come to pass and be revealed that the FATHER of the late Anna Nicole Smith’s baby girl was none other than her own SON - the late Daniel Smith! Would be a strong motive for murder, cover-ups, the woman going nutso and who knows what else.
Far-fetched? Would think so, except for a strange piece presented tonight on ABC’s Prime Time revealing how prevalent incest is in our society - and indeed, they focused on one mother who was physically attracted to and in love with her own biological son. Hey! The plot thickens . . . and if it does come to pass - remember where you heard it first!
READER FLOOD GATES BURST!
The afore three short paragraphs unleashed a barrage of reaction, the likes of which we have not seen recently. About 75% agreed with our hypothetical, whilst the balance ‘’took us to task'’ for suggesting such a vulgar thing!
To the smaller category of readers I can only remind that one bases a theory, philosophy, thought or hypothesis on the FACTS, and to be sure, in this case we could definitely be way off base (I hope we ARE!) but then, cogitate a spate on this:
The very next day after our added post, during open court testimony in the hearing for ‘’where shall we bury the rapidly rotting body of the deceased druggie?'’ - orchestrated by the bald-headed ‘’Judge Buffoon,'’ the young fellow who may come to be proven as the biological father of the baby girl (Larry Birkhead) stated that Anna Nicole had made a life-size, color, photographic cut-out of her deceased son, Daniel, and that she SLEPT with it every night . ..
Hmmmm . . . now, if anyone still believes that our suggestion that started the flurry of emails from DAX readers is STILL merely a weird meandering, then, I submit that they probably also believe that has-been, pop-singer Michael Jackson was just a harmless rich white guy who enjoyed rewarding innocent young boys with candy . . . in his bed . . .
Regardless - if you want to write to me, feel free: mailto:Dean@DAXRICH.com
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MONEY-MAKING: Fabled ‘Kitchen-Table’ Mail Order Profits CAN Be Real!
We just celebrated our 45th year in what we have always referred to as the ‘Fascinating Whirl of Mail Order.’ It’s been a crazy, exciting and profitable ride so far: Not only for all of us at DAX, but for the many tens of thousands who have been associated with DAX on a global basis.
Back when we first started shipping books, it cost a mere 14 cents per pound. The last rate hike brought the basic rate to $1.59. The average ACTUAL cost, based on weight, is between $4.00 and $6.00.
The very first cash sale that we made when we started back in 1962 was for 50 cents. I can well recall how excited I was to have succeeded in writing some sales copy that caused somebody to go to all the bother of addressing an envelope, put a (4 cent) stamp on it, enclose 50 cents plus an order form and then, actually mail it to me!
Over the years since, many millions of dollars have flowed into the DAX coffers worldwide. ALL of it (in my not so humble judgment) the result of what long ago (in 1969, to be exact) became the very essence of our corporate credo:
‘’To Reach The Top Of The ‘Success Ladder,'’ One Must Grasp the Next Rung Firmly With One Hand Whilst Extending The Other To The Fellow Below!'’
(In the early 1970’s one very nice young woman timidly wrote and inquired whether that declaration included women, since the quote said ‘’Fellow.'’ Once reassured that the term encompassed all, she went on to become one of THE most successful DAX Dealers of the last century!)
Over the past 4 1/2 decades we have honed our skills as regards the best ways to market. The learning process was exceedingly costly. You can well imagine that every time one gets a brainstorm and then sets about to develop, print (or record) the product, and then, test via direct mail and space advertising, the overall cost can be monumental.
It is common to blow a hundred grand or more for just ONE test. I well remember back in 1978 sitting down for the first time to write a check for a quarter of a million dollars just for postage! I was 38 at the time - had never in my life had a drink of alcohol, but after that episode declared, ‘’I think I could use a drink!'’
HOW YOU MAY BENEFIT
People constantly (and quite understandably) want to participate in our extraordinary success. Indeed, it has always been my contention that one of the principal keys to OUR success is our willingness to share it with others.
Some people are ‘’dip a toe in the water'’ types. That’s fine. Others are more sure of themselves and want to ‘’go big time'’ from the get-go. Regardless, we have a program or dealership, if you will, that fits the desire of all comers. And unlike virtually ALL others ‘’out there'’ we have NEVER charged a single penny for a DAX Dealership - zero, na-da, zilch.
We have two basic programs that permit industrious people to start and operate a home-based business that is virtually free of ALL ‘normal’ overhead that most other businesses must face every week. Indeed, most business people will lament the huge ‘nut’ they must crack every Monday morning.
They are referring, of course, to their payroll. Federal, state and local taxes of all kinds. Cost of interest on borrowed money. Payments for office equipment, such as telephone/copiers/FAX machines/computers/printers/ typewriters/desks/chairs/furniture and on and on. Rent, lease or mortgage payments. So many costly items, because virtually every ‘normal’ business endeavor requires such. But NOT with DAX!
A NIFTY ALTERNATIVE
A well-oiled, exceedingly profitable home-based mail order business is, on the contrary, devoid of virtually ALL those expensive requirements! The successful owner is NOT Forced to crack that proverbial ‘nut’ each and every week. Instead, copious amounts of PURE PROFITS may be had, and each Monday can be looked upon with great and sincere anticipation rather than fear.
But beware! So many people fall into the trap of believing that you can ‘get rich overnight’ but that is generally not true today any more than it was 45 years ago when we FIRST warned potential DAX-DOERS that this is, if nothing else, a BUILDING BUSINESS. One that requires time, patience and persistence.
No one (including DAX) can or should promise anything specific. It’s impossible. All we can do is make available the programs that we have devised, tested, honed and polished. We can only say, ‘’Here they are . . . here’s how they’ve worked best for us, as well as others and we’re willing to extend our hand to you in an effort to help boost YOU up the ladder of success, as well.'’
Whether you succeed either to the degree that you hope for - or to the extent that we desire for you - will depend, for the most part, on many factors that are totally beyond our control. We cannot control the nature, size or kind of mailing lists that you obtain, for example. We cannot control the weather, postal employee strikes, the placement of ads in publications, major buying public mood swings brought about by everything from wars, a hot stock market, celebrity sleaze-fests, and on an on.
We can show you what we do, what has worked, and allow you to emulate our steps. Success is NOT guaranteed but it can and does happen. And when it occurs, it is very, very sweet!
NOT A FREE RIDE
We at DAX, unlike most all others who are known in the industry as a ‘Prime Source,’ may initially either turn down a newbie flat or at the least, discourage a potential DAX-DOER if we feel they would be wasting their time and money as well as our own. An example: If a person, responding to one of our advertising pieces ignores the simple instructions and refuses to comply, we feel they are not candidates for our dealership program.
Someone who receives our literature, or sees our ad in a magazine or online and then writes asking for more details shows us they cannot understand the literature or become inspired by it - they should move on to something else. Obviously, if YOU cannot understand or get excited about a particular dicker - you cannot expect to get others enthused, either.
We can invariably tell whether a potential DAX-DOER stands even a scintilla of a chance to succeed - from the moment he or she makes the initial contact. Attitude, orderliness of thought, neatness of the order form - name/address filled in or not. Many fail to do that even basic stuff. Others omit expiration data on chargecard orders - or fail to list their own FAX number when submitting a FAX order (so we are unable to get back to them if/when they omit vital data.)
Or the biggie: Letters or FAX from people who have questions which they MUST have answered ‘right now,’ although the same have already been addressed (usually in great and laborious detail) in the dealership manual, Benefits PAX or similar vehicle designed to assist the dealer from ‘day one.’ Now, lest you think I am simply P ‘n M-ing here . . . let me assure you, I am not!
I’m saying that the person who is so lackadaisical in their approach to such things - stands little chance of ever succeeding. And who will they blame, if that’s the case . . . ? You guessed it, but it just won’t work around here!
THE DAX DYNAMIC DEALERSHIP DUO!
As strongly indicated, we go way out of our way to make crystal clear the benefits as well as any possible disadvantages of our basic, unique dealership programs. Here are further descriptions.
1. Our oldest program - going back several decades now (in evolutionary forms) is our exclusive MARKETING DIRECTOR PROGRAM as detailed in the book ‘’Be Your Own Boss!'’ which also contains a massive catalog of wealth-producing and self-improvement programs. As a DAX Marketing Director or a DAX MASTER V.I.P. your profits range from 50% to a phenomenal 80%! It’s the ‘Rolls-Royce’ of dealerships. Participants may market all of our books, courses, manuals, cassette tape programs and even the Seven DAX Premium Info-Data Programs.
Individual profits range as high as $8000.00 for single sales! That’s NOT a misprint: EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS! The lower profit range requires no investment in inventory. Even at the highest profit ranges never does one need to stock or store any inventory. Under this program the Marketing Director’s address appears in most advertising.
The orders and cash come directly to the Marketing Director who, in turn, fills out a shipping label and sends the order to DAX for drop-shipping. Since the customer pays for the shipping & handling, you, as a dealer, pay nothing, do not handle any order-processing, shipping, bookkeeping, etc,. Because . . . DAX Does It All For You!
The basic program is the ONLY one of its kind where the dealer also gets to enclose further sales literature (with the drop-ship order) ensuring the extremely valuable BACK END SALES to come his or her way, as well! This premier program is comprehensive, all-inclusive and has earned veritable fortunes for a number of DAX-DOERS over the many years that we have been a leader in this field.
And we have always been global: Before his passing, John W. Lane, President of DAX INTERNATIONAL (Hong Kong), informed me personally about some extraordinary success stories he was responsible for in South Africa, Australia, The Philippines, South Africa, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and not so surprisingly, many countries in Europe.
If you are intrigued, you should get yourself a copy of ‘’Be Your Own Boss!'’ by clicking right about . . . HERE:
http://DAXRICH.com/store/index.php?productID=138
2. ‘’DAX ULTIMATE MILLIONAIRE WEALTH-BUILDERS!'’ More than likely, at some time over the past several eons you have received one or more of the oh-so famous postcards proclaiming these famous words: ‘’DAX-FAX {Or Email} YOUR WAY TO GREAT RICHES!‘’ . . . right?
Well, that’s what this second phenomenal DAX Dealership is based on. It is simple, potentially hugely profitable and once again, there is NO cost for a dealership, franchise fee or any similar nonsense that so many other ‘’prime sources'’ nick you for. Not DAX! Never have - never will!
To learn fully about this extraordinary opportunity, please go to our main website: WWW.DAXFAX.COM Study all the data carefully - there are some pretty pictures and everything!
If you THEN want to learn even more and receive some valuable materials rather than pay the usual nominal fee of $10.00 - YOU will pay just $5.00 by remembering THIS six-digit number (999777) OR better still, the six-digit number that the person provided who may have directed you to THIS website! Either way, five free bux is, well . . . five free bux!
Commissions on this deal are nothing to sneeze at: A full fifty bux for each $99.00 sale that DAX sells as a result of your initial prospecting efforts - that of sending out postcards with your PIN on them OR by placing space or classified advertising in various media. In addition to that fantastic ‘lion’s share’ of the cash proceeds that you receive - get this:
DAX alone underwrites 100% of the cost of ALL premiums and incentives offered to induce prospects to buy - such as the Fabulous Faux Rolex wristwatches (which we also retail at $75.00 each!) DAX pays the cost to give your customer his/her choice of either a man’s style or a woman’s style. You pay zilch!
BOTTOM LINE BUX
There, you have a thumbnail sketch of two of the most popular and successful NO-COST business opportunities in history. In all instances, our strongest suit is that we provide PROVEN marketing programs that have been developed over very long periods of time. We offer superior product, red hot sales copy, rapid fulfillment (to keep customers happy) and very generous profit/commission numbers that are unmatched by any other ‘prime source’ in the industry.
We’re not saying that you should ONLY ‘DAX it,’ but we ARE saying that if you fail to hook up with DAX in some manner or another you simply are NOT ‘with it’ when it comes to direct marketing and mail order. You would do well to ask any true professional who is engaged in some aspect of the direct market industry. They will tell you that either they are proud to represent DAX products, themselves or, at the least, they highly recommend them! What more can we say?
JUST THIS:
Choose one of the above . . . choose both . . . or choose neither! ’tis entirely your decision - your future. I hate to be so crass, but here are the facts: If you decide not to opt for a spectacular DAX Dealership opportunity . . . there are, statistically, some eight other ambitious men or women lined up behind you who WILL grab the opportunity and run with it.
I truly would like to see EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD succeed beyond their wildest dreams. But the truth is, only a small portion will, because too many folks tend to think that someone else is going to do it for them. Not so.
Right now - as we are about to enter Spring - is the absolute best time to get yourself oriented and established with a viable, solid mail order program so that you can get everything in place to take advantage of the HUGE annual mail order profits that commence in the March - May period!
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PONDER THIS: A Few Words From Our Modern-Day ‘’Tricky-Dicky'’
V.P. Cheney recently told 4000 troops on the U.S. Kitty Hawk that ‘’the American public will not tolerate our retreating from Iraq.'’
Two things about that:
1. Who says we have to retreat to ensure bringing the boys and girls home? We could just issue an order to ‘’advance to the rear'’ and once in motion, get everybody the f#*k outta there!
2. PM Tony Blair just announced that THEY are leaving Iraq soon, and back home on the big isle, the Brits are not just tolerant - they are ecstatic!
Hey! Don’t underestimate the American willingness to support INTELLIGENT and CORRECT decisions, as well as the idiotic ones, Mr. Veep . . .
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A ‘SITE’ TO BEHOLD: Will You Be One Of Only 40% Of Americans Who Will Retire Financially Independent?
When you get a chance, click on:http://www.DAX-Power-Blast.com/ and when you get there, click on pages 21-40, and THEN check out advertisement #23. You may learn how to speed your journey to financial independence. Oh, and you may also want to click on the ADVERTISE tab on the MENU BAR if you happen to have something YOU want the rest of the world to learn about - at a VERY low cost!
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GOOD, BAD & IFFY: For Once, A Few NICE Words!
Okay, I freely admit it! Generally, if I’m telling you about some business or a person IN a business - it’s about all their faults. That’s simply because, in this country we have an abundance of nincompoops, miscreants, ne’er-do-wells, malcontents and plain old friggin’ idiots that somehow, gain prominence in most every aspect of our everyday dealings with people in business.
And I know for a fact that YOU do agree - as over the years, we have heard more about the nasty and incompetent people in stores, offices, hospitals, banks, post offices and such than anything else.
But TODAY, I have several GOOD things to tell you about!
First item: This past December we received the license renewal for SuEllen’s personal automobile. In Michigan, these are always renewable on a person’s next birthday and her’s was coming up on January 12. The renewal form stated that, as of January 1st, all new licenses would be the redesigned style, white with blue letters, and would replace the (very) old style, blue with white letters.
That sounded good, because for the past couple decades all we Michiganians have received for our $150 every year was a little colored stick-on tag showing the year. We had to live with old, worn-out plates with the reflective material wearing off more and more every year.
I get on-line, pay the fee and a week or so later receive in the mail the new plate, right? NO! Only the usual, little plastic decal! Huh? What happened here? So, I email the Secretary of State, detail the situation, and get a response (amazing in itself!) that essentially, says that I misunderstood what the notice had said:
That starting January 1st, all old plates would automatically be replaced with the new ones. But . . . that’s EXACTLY how I had interpreted the notice so, what’s the problem?! I had submitted the renewal too early - BEFORE January 1st - thus, I was only entitled to the stupid little sticker - NOT the new replacement plate, ‘’But that’s okay, because the old plate will be valid for another full year and THEN, we’ll send you a new replacement plate!'’
Oh crap - and double crap! They’re penalizing me for being ‘’on time'’ with my renewal - or I guess, as with all my bills, paying them BEFORE they’re due!
Well, I pursued all this with Kay from the Secretary of State’s office and although I realize she never agreed with me - she did capitulate, promised to send me a new PLATE right after January 1st, and guess what? SHE DID!
Second item: Told you once that SuEllen loves those automatic vacuum cleaners - little round jobbies that scoot all over the place by their ownsome - picking up kitty fur and what-have-you. They’re called I-Robots. I call ‘em Boom-Bas and recently, I noticed one of ‘em was missing its outboard spinning brushes. No idea what happened to them. Probably, a cat challenged the Boom-Ba to a duel and won.
In any event, I went on line to order a couple of the things and as usual, soon found myself trapped in the well-known Cyber Twilight Zone. It seems that whomever I was corresponding with could not understand English or at least, could not understand ME!
To cut to the conclusion: After several back and forth e-mails, Megan wrote and said they were sending a replacement brush - FREE! We got it by Priority Mail a couple days later. Now, I wanted to BUY two - but one’s better than nothing - even though they sent me the WRONG one! I made it work with the help of a hammer, screw driver and a needle-nose pliers . . .
Third Item: About twice a year, I call up Puritan’s Pride - they bought out the old Bio-Energetics that I dealt with for a couple decades - and buy 6 months worth of supplements. (Any time I complain about how much $$ SuEllen is wasting on ‘’stuff'’ she reminds me of the hundreds I spend each year on ‘’pills'’ - and I rebut that they are what’s keeping me ALIVE - and methinks, THAT’S why she’s complaining - HA!)
Anyway, this time as I was placing my usual order, the woman taking the order kept interrupting me to tell me that I could save some $$ by ordering such and such in a slightly different way - or in a different quantity, etc. And she was not trying to boost the total order either, as she convinced me to cut in half my usual quantity of CoQ10 to avoid a stale expiration date. All in all she saved me some $200.00 in real money!
This was on the morning of my birthday, by the way, so I told her I’d use the extra bux to buy dinner out that night, as I HAD planned, but as it turns out, SuEllen had other ideas! SHE actually made dinner for ME for a pleasant change - sea scallops and shallots slowly cooked in butter and white dry wine, with asparagus, red potatoes, onions and parsley, a three-baby lettuce salad with balsamic vinegar - all topped off with a heart-shaped chocolate cake and ice cream. Scrumptious!
I would be more than happy to state this nice lady’s first name - except, I cannot remember it. On the next order, I’ll have to have her send me a supply of Inositol or whatever it is that’s supposed to improve your memory . . .’
However, I know that she reads these posts - so I’m herewith publically thanking you for your consideration - whatever your name is! And here’s an idea for Puritan: When you send the acknowledgement of a new order - include the NAME of your representative who took the order!
Fourth item: Out here in the boonies, as is so often the case elsewhere across the land, we must pump our own water - no handy municipal water treatment plants, but also no drinking water that’s been pumped full of all sorts of harmful chemicals, such as fluoride!
One downside of having your own well - aside from the obvious occasional malfunctioning pump or worse, a well that literally runs dry - is that the minerals are often damaging to pipes and especially, to water heaters. Most w/h have a built-in anode rod which attracts harmful particles and prevents them from getting into the delivered water, but in time it self-destructs.
In the past, with any of our rural places where we pump our own H2-OH!, about every two-three years the anode rod that runs vertically in a water heater needs to be replaced. As it corrodes, it emits a foul odor that presents in the hot water.
Usually, we call a plumber and out they come for a couple hundred bux. About two years ago, on a Friday afternoon the relief valve gave out and was leaking all over and I knew that the anode rod also probably needed replacing so, when we called the plumber we asked that he come out and replace both items. Problem: He couldn’t get around to it until the first of the week. Several calls to other plumbers got the same stupid response.
So . . . I went down to a local plumbing supply store - usually frequented only by actual plumbers - and bought the two items for less than twenty bux. I replaced both - had some difficulty with getting the old rod out - but made it easy for the next time around by applying lots of vaseline on the threads of the new rod before installing.
Recently, the ‘’next time'’ rolled around so, I did some research and learned that aluminum rods have less of a tendency to corrode and thus, need to be replaced less often - if at all. Got online and found a source for the item and had one of my peeps make the arrangements to acquire. Robin tells me that she had a very pleasant transaction with an outfit at: http://www.WaterHeaterRescue.com
The new anode rod was costly - about 80 bux, as opposed to around $12.00 for the standard kind - but it arrived quickly and the fellow who sold it to her, Randy Schuyler, followed up with emails to make certain all was okay. This time, I installed the thing again, because no one locally would do it since we had not bought the part from THEM! But ’twas very easy - thanks to ME - having the foresight to grease the skids the last time!
So! There are four examples of American business acting more or less as they should - in the interest of the CUSTOMER - and doing so as a ‘’matter of course.'’ But you must admit, seldom does that happen these days, eh wot?!
Indeed, you just gotta know that SOME A-Hole had to go and spoil the above unusual and glowing, and here he is:
If you have a blog, ezine, website or whatever and are seeking a listing in a directory or a link exchange, watch out! There are some real unscrupulous creeps ‘n crooks out there, such as: Ryan Jensen of the Ezine Directory - http://www.ezine-dir.com One of my peeps jumped all his hoops to secure a listing - and the requirements are rather lengthy, I’m told.
When that final click was made, up came pix of chargecards and data stating that it will cost a hundred bux to garner a listing on the top of the page . . . OR . . . one can click a little box and get it for free. Only problem: When you do THAT, you get an email from this jerk which starts out as: ‘’Your Link Has Been Rejected.'’ He goes on to state the reason: No email newsletter (ezine) - HIS words not ours.
Now, here’s the interesting part. HIS definition OF an ezine is taken directly from the Wikopedia definition and reads: ‘’ezine - a periodic publication distributed by email or posted on a website. Ezines are typically tightly focused on a subject area, ezines in concept are reworkings of the popular magazine format of seasonal, monthly, or weekly topical publications, in an electronic format.'’
Jensen’s claim that DAXRICH.com is NOT an email newsletter is absolutely correct. We require YOU to actually come and visit US at your leisure - rather than vicey-versey, where we impose on your space and say, ‘’HEY! Here we are! It’s time for you to read our ezine whether you have the time, patience or desire to do so right now - or NOT!'’
He is INCORRECT when he states THAT is the definition OF an ezine - as taken (again) from HIS reproduction of the Wikopedia definition.
Whadda ya think? Had we ‘bit'’ and slipped him the Benny Franklin he was trying to extricate from us - do you think that perhaps, right about now, DAXRICH.com would be reposing prominently at the top of his directory . . . . hmmmmm?!
You know what? I’m beginning to think that perhaps, I’ll start an entire new and separate ezine JUST to expose the shenanigans of all those (apparent) millions of ne’er-do-wells out there in cyber space. For sure, we would never run out of material!
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DAX-YAX: Listen Up!
First year vet students gathered around the surgery table to get their first real anatomy class lesson courtesy of a dead cow and their professor who started off by saying, ‘’In veterinary medicine it is necessary to possess two important qualities: First, you cannot be revulsed by anything involving the animal body.
‘’For example . . . ‘’ The Professor pulled back the sheet covering the deceased bovine, stuck his finger up its rectum, withdrew, and stuck it in his mouth - and (holy crap!) appeared to be sucking on it!
‘’Go ahead and do the same thing,'’ He ordered his students. Naturally, all were grossed out, but all had come this far in their quest for a SHEEPskin (HA!) so, one by one, each took a turn at sticking their finger into the cow’s butt, and then, they stuck the finger in their mouth and sucked on it. Yikes! Three tossed their cookies right on the spot. All were noticeably groaning and gagging.
At last, the Professor said, ‘’And the SECOND most important quality you will find necessary to succeed, is observation: For example, I stuck in the middle finger of my hand, but sucked on the index finger. NOW, do I have your attention for the balance of today’s lesson?'’
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