You can read more about it here at the Internet Crime Complaint Center site. I’m personally not from the US and so if anyone needs to read more about this plan I found a link at the IRS site located at http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=177937,00.html where you can read more about it.

Hope that helps to protect some from being swindled out of their money.

There is this one example that I saw today which made me think just that as I saw a USB memory stick on sale for about $9.99. As you can see here too, it indicates that the regular price of this item is $62.99 which means you are saving $53.

For these types of products, I happen to know what the average price is and so it immediately got a reaction out of me as the original price of the product seemed so overpriced. Here are some quick examples from other stores which sell the same product:

As you can see, one place sells it for $15.98 as a regular price. While granted you can argue that the price indicated is the store’s own regular price, although I personally never seen it that high, it just goes to show that you still need to do your research when it comes to buying things regardless of some sign indicating what the regular price of the item is.

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As stated on the article, you would need a high speed Internet access for this plan to work. I personally still use both as I would find it to be a little of a hassle having to charge up a cell phone to talk at home. The other reason is that I have routers at the house which sometimes interferes with the cell phone reception and using a traditional land line is the only real guarantee of reliability. In that case it still made sense to pay for a traditional phone line as well.

That is a nice thought being able to use just one phone for all from a residential point of view. I don’t think this would necessarily change the habits of people who run some sort of business activity though. Come to think of it, a lot of people I know have multiple phones/numbers for the sake organizing say work related calls, personal use and specific people for some kind of VIP contact.

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In a nutshell, it sounds like by trying to get people to use the majority of their electricity during a certain time period it will enable a better supply and demand scenario to create better pricing. With that, the cost of electricity would be cheaper during peak times and more expensive during times outside of that period it seems.

Kind of an interesting idea when you think about it on paper as it could definitely save you a lot of money by doing so. On the other hand, it is kind of hard to make people adjust their lifestyles to all be the same. In that case it could make one’s bill incredibly higher and unpredictable.

I always thought the best way to save money in this sense is to invent something extremely user friendly so that people can generate their own power to save money.

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At the booth they had literatures as well mentioning how the item could help kids so much there as an extra push to get people to give their MP3 players. While money and food donations are one thing, I just can’t wrap my head around how a person who is fighting for survival would want or need an MP3 player.

Seems like it would create more hassle to me as now you need to worry about things like the electricity to power it up too considering the person’s situation.

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