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Tuesday 6 February 2018

Amazon.com is it a unstoppable business or could it fail ?

Amazon.com is it making the same mistake as eBay does and putting sales before ethics 



I actually am an affiliate seller for Amazon and  I enjoy the  side of  the business I do for them, I do not sell myself on Amazon or work for them directly, but I do have concerns as I put a lot of work into Amazon and feedback I have had recently about them from my own customers is worrying, 

I work with a lot of companies reviewing products such as sideshow collectables which all I ever get is praise for that company and products service they provide so it's not people directing hate at my business is what i tend to promote on that blog youtube video webpage etc,  

I blankly refuse to promote or sell anything for eBay due to how myself and my customers feel about eBay as most my customers I have are ex eBay users who won't use there site anymore so come to me for help finding collectables thereafter I am unsure how much research big corporations do on disgruntled customers and ex-employees




I watch a lot of youtube videos on company's businessmen there ethics dreams etc,

Richard Branson in an interview bangs on about a business is built ground up not top first, 

I highly recommend anyone watch history of Jack Ma and how he learnt English put up with eBay trying to ruin him which funnily now he could buy eBay with his spare change but does not want to lol, He even proved the Chinese Government wrong as his thinking was so before anything was understood, even a business show tried to humiliate him on the BBC saying come on jack you think you can make money off the internet, 


He is so correct greed will not in the long-term win, nearly every big company out there has had a disgruntled ex-employee has left and done what companies there worked for never listened to and caused havoc to business, we all know Steve Jobs was sacked from Apple then gained control again, this happened with Mattel and Hasbro toy companies with boss's not listening to them someone going elsewhere and gaining huge contracts from underneath there previous boss's

well in my days of being very successful and running a company, I had the best workforce I could have dreamt for and in return, my staff bent over backwards to make my company work my staff would shout at me to give them more work,



I paid them a weekly salary all drinks etc free I provided canteen etc was just a kitchen, we had a dog yes we did , I had music tv is it helped one staff member used to sit in a room listening to star trek on the table whilst packing orders and by golly he was fast, my staff were happy was like a home environment, happy staff are good staff nit staff who rubbish your brand, steal from you or take your ideas ,

I had 4 staff on average we did 550 -800 orders a week, my staff were also mature 40-60 years old this as I saw with my dads business is a real crucial bit of the puzzle, mature staff is the key, younger school leavers take sick days don't come in or drunk or stoned and younger staff think they know everything and tend to think they can steal your ideas and do business themselves, not saying all young staff are bad but from my experience and seeing y dads business young girls on phones all the time  then get sacked , but older workers tend to have better work ethic and manners, (p.s I am under 40 not saying this because I am old) also most boss's would cringe with net idea I did if work was all done and staff had done an amazing job I would close office friday go take them for a meal and let them go home after....


my staff as I say we're like a big happy family we even built a koi garden together in our breaks was a good time I fondly miss but I decided to have a family and be a dad instead of working like I did.

So this brings me to Amazon.com, great looking company great website loved the way they came along and destroys eBay, but do we all remember when we loved eBay before they ripped us off with hiking fee's mistreated us with suspensions etc etc, us sellers we basically eBay's staff and if your an unhappy eBay seller-buyer would you buy off them again, after 12 years on eBay buying and selling i would never use them again, so the once mighty have fallen,

I have same worries about Amazon and this is my theory how they could fail if a serious problem is not addressed as all another company has to come along and do amazons format but with better work practices,   how many people say I love my amazon job, Google Disney and toy company's seem to be were employees enjoy to work,



Basically Amazon has an incredibly high staff turn over what they do is hire staff through agencies in the hundreds and thousands each week then, cherry pick the best staff and let go the others, you go look in a job search thousands of jobs, average to low pay crazy hours just read reviews, then good chance let go afterwards, modern-day slavery ,


so each week such a high sacking/letting go rate of employees then the undercover exposure on the inner workings of Amazon being shown on television,


I was offered a job from amazon.co.uk but declined after reading reviews on Glassdoor and watching a documentary on fulfilment centres 


if you are a sacked employee or an unhappy one regardless of what company it was, would you use that company? the answer must be no surely, so every week Amazon get rid of staff that don't, make the grade or had been ill or whatever other crazy reason was given,

so, in theory, every week amazon are instead of making staff want to buy from them make them hate them then tell friends, family, not to use, over a year if I had numbers and stats would be an absurd amount of lost sales,


As I say I am an affiliate for Amazon so want them to succeed but I have received several messages from my subscribers asking me why I am advertising a billion dollar business like Amazon I should be ashamed of myself, honestly i get messages like that, so must be some angry people out there,


also its not just the sacked staff that causes amazon issues bit also people who were amazon sellers and affiliates that had accounts closed, they will not by from amazon anymore so amazon I think is repeating error of ebay and concentrating so much on sales they are forgetting who runs amazon trust me its not jeff bezos its all workers in offices, factories affiliates and sellers in bedrooms across the world, you upset them they revolt ,,,,its happened since man was created throughout history, if you are a king or a Ceo keep your people happy !!!!!




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Sunday 4 February 2018

lego minifigures price guides and collection guides

Lego Minifigure Price Guides Valuations on actual sold realised prices





Eterniacollectables.co.uk on y personnel youtube channel made various lego price guides showing current valuations and character names in the series , some videos are a couple of years old so i intend to make new updated price guides on my eternia collectables business page in 2018 and i know many non british viewers were confused with the pound prices as many only understood dollars so my new lists will include multiple currencies with full sound 

All our lego price guides are based on actual sold prices not dealers asking crazy prices and never selling anything so i believe it to be a very accurate guide unlike so many price guides i have purchased in the past with crazy inflated prices, 

One rule of selling collectibles is its only worth what someone is willing to pay not what a book tells you its worth...there is a difference with a insurance valuation and a actual selling price, 


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Del Prado Locomotives of the world N gauge checklist issue models list

DEL PRADO LOCOMOTIVES OF THE WORLD


In total 100 locomotives trains were made in total for this Del Prado Locomotives of the world partworks series , start of issue was in August 2006 , ended in December 2008. according to information i saw on a forum .


Some country issues may differ in issue number to locomotive model unsure why this is but the list is correct for every model made , also are various videos i made reviewing these models on my youtube channel 

These models are N gauge and very details great value for the money, also you can unscrew these from these bases and i have seen people who have converted these into actual working models , but are sold as static models but do having moving wheels 

1 19/08/2006  LNER Class A1 "Flying Scotsman"   GB

2 02/09/2006  ETR300 "Settebello"   Italy
3 13/09/2006  SNCF CC 7100   France
4 20/09/2006  American Standard "The General" USA   
5 27/09/2006  TGV, France 1978  France
6 07/10/2006  AMTRAK FP-45 (EMD)   USA 
7 14/10/2006  UNION PACIFIC FP 7   USA
8 21/10/2006  CLASS 52 KRIEGSLOK   Germany
9 28/10/2006  SERIES 700 SHINKANSEN   Japan
10 04/11/2006  ETR 480 PENDOLINO  Italy
11 16/11/2006  BR 218 - Diesel Germany 1968   
12 23/11/2006  CLASS C50 - Steam Japan 1929   
13 30/11/2006  GP 20 - electeric BoBo, USA 1955   
14 07/12/2006  HST 125 Inter City, GB 1976   
15 14/12/2006  GNER Class 373 "White Rose', GB 1993   
16 21/12/2006  Standard Class 4MT steam 4-6-0 GB 1951   
17 28/12/2006  ETR 500 (E404), high speed train Italy 1995   
18 10/01/2007  DF4D President Mao, diesel eletric, China 1996   
19 17/01/2007  F45 Santa Fe 100, diesel electric, USA 1967  
20 24/01/2007  Class 691 FS, Steam Locomotive 4-6-2 Italy 1928   
21 31/01/2007  GE 6/6 KROKODIL ( RhB), Electric Swiss Svizzera 1921   
22 07/02/2007  AVE 100 RENFE, high speed train Spain 1992   
23 14/02/2007  KIHA 81, Diesel Japan 1960   
24 21/02/2007  CLASS 182, DB Electric Germany 2001   
26 07/03/2007  Mallard Class A4 , Steam 4-6-2 GB 1938   
27 14/03/2007  RENFE 319.4 diesel elettric, Spain 1990   
28 21/03/2007  SNCF 141 P Mikado, 2-8-2, France 1942   
29 28/03/2007  DB VT-11.5 TEE diesel electric Germany 1957   
30 04/04/2007  RENFE 352 (TALGO) Spaina 1964  
31 11/04/2007  Class 340 RENFE , Spain 1966   
32 18/04/2007  Su 2-6-2 Steam  Russia 1911   
33 25/04/2007  SNCF TGV Duplex 29000 high speed train, France 1996   
34 01/05/2007  Southern Railway "schools" Class 4-4-0 GB 1930   
35 12/05/2007  Canadian Pacific Railway "Royal Hudson" 4-6-4, Canada 1929   
36 19/05/2007  SNCF CC 6500 - electric, France 1969   
37 26/05/2007  Class YP (indian Railways), Steam made in GB 1949   
38 02/06/2007  E 428 FS, electric, Italy 1934   
39 09/06/2007  Class VL80 Trans-siberian, electric (SZD),Russia 1963  
40 16/06/2007  "Brighton Belle" Pullman, GB 1933   
41 23/06/2007  1-C-1 Class D, electric, Swiss 1925   
42 30/06/2007  GG1 Pennsylvania Railroad- electric, USA 1934   
43 07/07/2007  Renfe ETR 490 "Alaris" high speed train, Spain 1999   
44 17/07/2007  Highland Railway "duke"Class, GB 1874   
45 21/07/2007  Midland Railway "Spinner" 211, GB 1887   
46 28/07/2007  SNCF Autorail X 3800 "Picasso" , France 1950   
47 04/08/2007  Class 242 Confederaciòn, Steam 4-8-4 (RENFE),Spain 1956   
48 11/08/2007  Ludwigsbahn "Adler" 2-2-2 , Germany 1835   
49 20/08/2007  Andes Class 2-8-0 - Perù 1935  
50 31/08/2007  E.550 electric, Italy 1908   
51 06/09/2007  Via Rail LRC , Canada 1981   
52 13/09/2007  101-120 RFIRT, steam 2-10-2, Argentina 1956   
53 20/09/2007  Class 1100 electric, Holland 1950   
54 12/10/2007  Class BB 22200 electric, France 1976   
56 26/10/2007  Class 12 (SNCB) 4-4-2 , Belgium 1939   
57 30/10/2007  BB 9300 (SNCF) electric, France 1967   
58 07/11/2007  Class 55 DELTIC diesel electric, GB, 1961   
59 14/11/2007  class D51 2-8-2, Japan 1935   
60 21/11/2007  class Re 4/4 II electric, Switzerland 1864  
61 28/11/2007  P42 Genesis, diesel electric, USA 1996   
62 05/12/2007  Class 1047 (Magyar Allamvasutak), electric Hungary 2001     
63 12/12/2007  Class K4 Pennsylvania Railroad, steam 4-6-2 USA 1914   
64 19/12/2007  BOURBONNAIS (Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée PLM), steam 0-6-0, France 1854   
66 02/01/2008  Class 2130 Queensland Railways (Australia), disel electric, 1970   
67 09/01/2008  ICE3 Intercity Express 3 high speed train  Germany 1998   
68 16/01/2008  Class 1700, electric, Holland 1990   
69 02/02/2008  Class V, steam 4-4-0, Ireland 1932   
70 09/02/2008  Class 6E, electric,South Africa 1969  
71 16/02/2008  242A1, steam 4-8-4, France 1946   
72 23/02/2008  Class V60 DB, diesel Germany 1955   
74 08/03/2008  Class 1200, diesel electric, Portugal 1961   
75 15/03/2008  Class RE 6/6 II, electric, Swiss 1962   
76 22/03/2008  Class P, steam, Denmark 1907   
77 29/03/2008  Class L Remembrance, steam, GB 1914   
78 12/04/2008  Class 4E, electric, South Africa 1954   
79 12/04/2008  Class 103.1 electric Germany 1965  
81 07/05/2008  Class 01.10, steam  Germany 1935   
82 14/05/2008  1181 Vittorio Emanuele II, steam, Italy 1884  
83 09/06/2008  Shao Shao 8 (SS8), electric China 1994   
84 14/06/2008  Class E.424, electric Italy 1943   
85 21/06/2008  CC 72000, diesel-electric, France 1967   
86 28/06/2008  EP-2 Bipolar, electric, USA 1919   
87 07/07/2008  Class E 18, electric, Germany 1935   
88 12/07/2008  Class 11, Steam, Angola 1951   
89 19/07/2008  Class Q, Steam, New Zealand 1901   
90 28/07/2008  Class PS4, steam, USA 1926   
91 19/09/2008  Class Pt-47, steam , poland 1947   
92 27/09/2008  Duchess Class, Steam, GB 1933  
93 03/10/2008  Class C38, steam, Australia 1943   
94 22/09/2008  D.345, diesel electric, Italy 1974   
95 20/11/2008  Class RM, steam, China 1958   
96 29/11/2008  DB VT 172, diesel, Germany 1961   
97 06/12/2008  Claud Hamilton, steam GB 1900   
98 13/12/2008  Class Ml 4000/9000, diesel electric Germany 1961   
99 20/12/2008  Class EF210, electric, Japan 1996   
100 27/12/2008 Class P8 steam Germany






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