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Adult Swim Skins - HEROES - ATHF
MusicSkins LLC and Adult Swim have joined forces to bring you durable premium vinyl protective skins for over 130 different electronic devices, including: iPods, iPhones, Laptops, MP3 Players, Cell Phones, Gaming Devices, Sony PSP, Guitar Band, RockBand Guitars, Amazon Kindle, Flip Video, Orbit MP3 Audio Docks, Seagate FreeAgent Go Drives, and many more of the most popular electronic devices!
Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, ATHF, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Freaknik, Venture Brothers, Metalocalypse, Venture Bros, The Drinky Crow Show
March 9, 2010
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MusicSkins LLC and Adult Swim present…
Check out this great news posted in the Wired Gadget Lab on Feb. 26, 2010:
Adult Swim Skins Make Your Phone #1 In The Hood, G
Read MoreВ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/adult-swim-skins-make-your-phone-1-in-the-hood-g/
Not only do I love Adult Swim, but MusicSkins LLC is one of my clients. So, as you may have guessed by now, this is super cool news as far as I’m concerned. 
I can’t wait to get an ATHF skin for my laptop. They should be out any day now!
MusicSkins LLC Adult Swim Skins
February 28, 2010
Tags: Adult Swim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, ATHF, Awesome, Boondocks, Brak, Cartoon Network, Cool, Featured Sellers, Good News, Harvey Birdman, Metalocalypse, Music Skins, Music-Skins.com, MusicSkins LLC, MusicSkins.com, Press Releases, Robot Chicken, Sealab, Sealab 2021, Site Sponsors, Space Ghost, Squidbillies, The Bookdocks, The Brak Show, Venture Bros, Venture Brothers Posted in: Blackberry Accessories, Business News, ENV Accessories, Entertainment, Featured Sellers, Green Web Design, Guitar Hero Accessories, Kindle Accessories, LG Accessories, Laptop Accessories, Mac Mini Accessories, Marketing, Meet Our Sellers, Music, Music Skins, News, Nintendo DS Accessories, Notebook Accessories, Orbit MP3 Audio Dock Accessories, PSP Accessories, Palm Accessories, Press Releases, RAZR Accessories, Rock Band Accessories, Samsung Accessories, Sansa View Accessories, Seagage FreeAgent Accessories, Seller Blog Entries, Sidekick Accessories, Sony PSP Accessories, Tech News, Vinyl Protectors, XBox 360 Accessories, Zune Accessories, iPhone Accessories, iPod Accessories, shopping One Comment
Put your logo on your laptop, phone, and other gadgets!
Put your business or other logo on any laptop, cell phone, iPod, Blackberry, and more. Affordable high-quality durable В Custom skins available for over 130 different electronic devices and gadgets at: В http://www.music-skins.com/custom
MusicSkins LLC / Warped Tour
February 26, 2010
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St. Patty’s Day T-Shirts for Men, Women, Children
Saint Patrick’s Day T-Shirts Are A Must!В Everyone is Irish on Saint Patrick’s Day so wear your Viktor Viktoria Saint Patrick’s Day T-Shirt and enjoy your green beer!В Viktor Viktoria carries a great selection of Saint Patrick’s Day T-Shirts for Men and Saint Patrick’s Day T-Shirts for Women.
St Pat’s Day Tees – Junior Cut
Classy Lassie St. Patrick's Day Tee
Rub Me for Luck St. Pat's Men's T-Shirt
Who's Your Paddy St. Patty's Day Baby Romper
February 22, 2010
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Meet our Sellers: Bird Mommy DVD and Jan Davis Guitar
Donna Carleton-Bird, better known as Bird Mommy, is the creator of a delightful kids DVD that is 40 minutes long for kids ages 2-8.В It is available as a DVD, or if you prefer to watch them online, you may purchase the individual musical story-rhymes and download them to your computer for just .80 cents each! Just visit BirdMommy.com to watch a 40 second preview of each story-rhyme and see for yourself what your kids think!
When I was creating her website, Donna sent me a copy of her DVD so that I could convert it into a digital format,В in order to offer the downloadable versions on the site.В When I was done, I gave the DVD to my niece.В She is now 5 years old and she still loves it and watches it all the time.В I am sure that your kids, grandkids, nephews, nieces or other children in your life will love it too!
When listening to Donna narrate the story-rhymes on this Kids DVD, you can hear in her voice what a loving grandmother and mother she is.В Many of her poems were written for, and even with, her own kids and grandkids.В And after knowing Donna and her husband online for several years now, I can tell you that she is every bit as sweet as she sounds!
Speaking of Donna’s husband, Jan Davis, he is responsible for the wonderful music on the DVD.В He is an accomplished musician, and a classical, flamenco, and blues guitar master, among other things. Donna’s poems are set to Jan’s beautiful Guitar music, and it’s a perfect match! You can also find Jan Davis Guitar on Facebook.
Together, Donna and Jan own Stone Tiger Music, a legal MP3 download service which allows independent musicians to easily sell their music for download to the public.
February 2, 2010
Tags: Articles by Jessica Franke, Bird Mommy, Donna Carleton-Bird, Guitar Music, Jan Davis, Jan Davis Guitar, Kids DVD, Stone Tiger Music Posted in: 50 States Classifieds, Articles, Bird Mommy DVD, Featured Sellers, Jan Davis Guitar, Kids, Kids DVD, Kids Educational DVD, Meet Our Sellers, Stone Tiger Music, childrens videos 2 Comments
Team 50StatesClassifieds.com on Kiva update
We are pleased to announce that our Kiva Team just hit the $1000 mark!В That means that the Friends of Green Web Design / 50 States Classifieds team members have loaned out $1000 to small businesses and entrepreneurs in developing nations.
Impact of 50StatesClassifieds.com
January 29, 2010
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Shameless Spammers – BVD / Big Value Depot / Big Ticket Depot and other annoyances
In the heat of annoyance, I posted this rant on the signup page overnight.В When my head was clearer, I realized that I didn’t really want to rant directly on the signup page.В However, it’s still worth saying.В So, here’s my rant.В It started out because of the BVD spam incidents this week, which kept escalating, and then we were also flooded by an unusually large rash of other scams as well.В Hence, my rant.
BVD users – do NOT sign up – You are NOT welcome here.
We do not tolerate users who disrespect our rules, nor do we tolerate spammers. It says, right there on the page, not to do what you did, in large red letters. You should be seriously ashamed of yourselves. It’s our site, we pay the bills, therefore we make the rules, and if you’re not going to respect the rules that we have clearly, repeatedly, politely posted on our website, which most other people can comprehend just fine, then, Big Value Depot / Big Ticket Depot spammers, you can just bugger off. You spammed us worse than the overseas spammers who sign up every night by the dozens! I assume the overseas spammers can’t read the “NO SPAMMING” part of things, but you guys speak english, what’s your excuse?!
While I’m at it, I may as well mention the other people who should close this page and leave right now. If you are going to try and post ads for any of the following, DO NOT BOTHER SIGNING UP.
NO home typists or other data entry / work from home scams.
NO “get rich quick” scams where there is no product or service other than “get rich quick” which you can supposedly do by putting up ads telling people they can “get rich quick” by putting up their own ads trying to recruit other people who will put up still more ads so they also can “get rich quick” etc etc etc. If you don’t have a tangible physical product, or a service that is REALLY a service, and your only product is “magic get rich quick posting ads”, then don’t post it here.
NO escorts or erotic massages or anything of that sort. This is not the place. Seriously.
NO cash gifting scams, ponzi schemes, english bulldog scams, 419 scams, advance fee scams, etc. We’re on to you…
Loan Modification – while we understand that in a few cases, loan modification is legitimate and can work, there are thousands of loan mod scams out there and we’re not qualified to tell the difference, nor is it profitable for us to endlessly research each and every supposed loan mod company and find out if they’re real or a scam. So, we just don’t allow those ads, as we feel it’s more important to protect consumers. Ditto for loan offers, note buyers, insurance that isn’t insurance, ecigarettes, and other high-scam industries that we get way too many ads for.
NO spamming the other users or bothering them in any way, unless you are contacting them to purchase the item they have advertised. Contacting them with business offers, commercial concerns, scams, creepy messages, asking them for favors, etc, violates our terms of use.
This site is based in the USA, created for a USA audience, and is not equipped to deal with overseas currencies, etc. On rare occasions we make exceptions and allow someone overseas to post if we feel the ad has value to a United States audience, and we also don’t mind our Canadian neighbors posting, but we usually won’t allow even non-scams originating from overseas to be posted. Someday maybe we’ll make an international site. But right now, it’s just 50 States Classifieds. Sorry.
I hope my rant doesn’t scare off all the nice normal people out there who just want to buy and sell legitimate products and services. Please be assured that we are always vigilant in finding and banning spammers, scammers, and other annoyances so that the rest of you can buy and sell safely. As you’re probably aware if you’ve been online for more than 5 minutes, Internet spam often makes it impossible to find the legitimate products and services you’re looking for. It cheapens a site, and makes everything else on it seem untrustworthy, when you allow just anyone to post whatever they want to without trying to screen it in some way. We believe that the battle against spam must be fought vigilantly, daily, to keep any site worthwhile in the long run. We spend a lot of time and resources trying to do just that.
On the plus side, you won’t have to compete with the spammers to have your ads seen, since our extremely skeptical human editors must review each ad and decide whether or not to approve it, ensuring that spammers don’t get even one second of free advertising on our website. It still wastes our time to review and delete them, but at least it doesn’t deface our website and scare shoppers away. The bottom line is that we hate spam too, and you won’t have to put up with it here.
To the users who came here to post free ads for legitimate products and services, and who will treat our website and our users with respect, you are what makes our website a thriving marketplace and a great community. Thank You for using our site! Please proceed to sign up below, and have a great day!
January 29, 2010
Tags: Big Ticket Depot, Big Value Depot, BVD, Jerks, Scammers, Scams, Site Policies, Spam, spammers, Terms of Service, Terms of Use, TOS Posted in: 50 States Classifieds, Free Classifieds, Scams, What Not To Do 6 Comments
Grammy Nominated Artists and their MusicSkins
Congratulations to all the MusicSkins artists who are nominated to receive a Grammy award! Check out skins for your iPhone or iPod from the nominated artists below!
1) Taylor Swift
2) Black Eyed Peas – The End
10) Linkin Park – blue pattern
11) Judas Priest
12) Depeche Mode – Sounds Of Universe
13) T-Pain – Boat
14) Trey Songz
15) Nas – Logo
16) Rihanna
17) Red – Red-Red-Red
18) Tracey Lawrence
19) Buju Banton
20) Sean Paul – Imperial
Read more at:
http://www.music-skins.com/blogs/vince/2010/01/28/grammy-nominated-artists/
January 29, 2010
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Scam Alert: lowering your credit card interest – beware!
I just got a phone call from a “professional” scammer.В Normally, I don’t pick up phone calls from phone numbers I don’t recognize – I get way too many telemarketers (or as I like to call them, phone spammers) calling to waste my valuable time, and I don’t like to be interrupted when I’m working, so my rule is that I only answer the phone when I’m expecting a scheduled call.
However, this number called several times in a few days without leaving a message, and I was curious to find out who it was, if for no other reason than to make them stop calling, because it was getting distracting.В The number was 773-000-0000 and the caller ID simply said “Out of area”.
It was an automated recording from “Account Services”, and it stated that the offer to lower my credit card interest rate was almost expiring, and to press 9 to continue.В “Account services” is pretty generic, which was my first tip-off that this was a scam.
My next clue? I have a few credit cards, and not one of them has ever called me about lowering my interest rate.В In fact,В I call all of my credit card companies like clockwork every 6 months, even if they don’t have a balance and are already really low, and ask them to lower the interest rate (which everyone should do).В However, in my 10+ years of credit card usage, I have never once had them call me and offer to lower my rate.
So, curious, I pressed 9 to see what they were going to say.В The way that these call centers usually work is that, once you press 9, the autodialer program that called you forwards you to a phone extension where a person is waiting.В On their caller ID, they will almost always see the dialer’s phone number, and not your number, since you did not call them directly.В For this reason, I felt pretty confident pressing 9 and knowing that he wouldn’t know who I was specifically.
The gentleman who answered sounded as though he was probably in India or Pakistan, and sounded as though he might have taken elocution lessons to speak like an American. For some reason, he was shouting rather than speaking.В Not shouting angrily, just shouting as though he was deaf or was in a very loud place, and it did sound as though he were in a huge call center with a cacophony of voices chattering in the background, so that was likely the reason.
I could not make out what company he said he was with.В I asked him to say it again. He spoke so quickly and so loudly, I couldn’t make it out at all.В I asked him to state his company name a 3rd time, and he said that he worked for “visa and mastercard”.
Here is a summary of his sales pitch:
He claimed to work for Visa, Mastercard, and Experian.В He said “they” did a survey and it showed that xx percent of people are hurting their credit by closing credit accounts instead of lowering their interest rates. (*note* it is technically true that closing credit card accounts hurts your credit, because it lowers your total available credit.В The more you know.)
Basically, his angle was that on behalf of Experian, Visa, and Mastercard, they would lower all of my credit card interest rates for free, “because you have such good credit and are still paying such high interest rates”.
It’s true, I do have excellent credit, but I think that was just a lucky guess on his part. The only high interest credit card I have is my business credit card, and it does not go any lower, for any reason, as part of the rewards program terms.В Believe me, I have asked every 6 months for 3 years as a matter of principle. So his information was pretty far off base in that regard.
So, anyways, supposedly, Experian had reviewed my account and decided that despite having good credit my credit card interest rates were “too high”.В He didn’t seem to know what those high numbers were, or the names of the credit card companies that were supposedly charging me too much interest.
It’s a good scheme when you think about it… no matter who you are or how good or bad your credit is, you will probably always consider the interest too high, and people’s eagerness to get a deal “before it expires very soon” may stop them from thinking about it too hard.В Whatever the reason, this scam has been around for several years, so it must be working for them!
I asked several questions, such as, “aren’t Visa and Mastercard and Experian three different companies, how could you work for all three?” and “Who is paying you, Visa, Mastercard, or Experian?”.В I got no satisfactory answer from him.В Most of his answers were just things he had already said, and it wasn’t any more convincing the the more I heard it.
He assured me it would cost me nothing. I asked if his company was a charity, that they could afford to randomly call and help consumers get lower interest rates.В In response, he again claimed that Experian picked me based on my excellent credit and that the reward is having lower interest rates.
He seemed to have a bunch of pat answers, but his responses were inappropriate – just a little off, like his english – none of his answers quite fit the questions that I asked, and no matter what I asked, I got one of 5 answers.В В He never explained how his company got paid, or which company actually signed his check – but just kept assuring me that it would not cost me a single cent because he works for Visa, Mastercard, and Experian.
He, of course, needed my credit card numbers and other information in order to help me.В At this point, having listened to his grating voice blasting at top volume for several minutes straight, and having absolutely no intention of giving this obvious scammer any sensitive financial data, I hung up.
If anyone calls you and asks you to give them your credit card number, bank account number, social security number, mother’s maiden name, or any other sensitive financial data, NEVER give it to them.В A legitimate bank, credit card company, or other financial institution will send you an official letter in the mail on their stationary or with their logo on the documents.В Visa and Mastercard will never, ever, ever call you on the phone and ask you for any of this information.В The only time they do ask you for any information is when you call them.
Speaking of which, another good point to bring up would be to never call a phone number on your answering machine for a bank.В If someone leaves a message for you saying they’re from your bank, your credit card company, your credit union, or other financial institution that you do business with, and asks you to call them back, look at their official company website or in the phone book to be sure you are calling their phone number.В Anyone can call and pretend to be Mr. Smith from your bank and give you a phone number to call him back at, but that does not mean that he’s legitimate, or that his phone number is, or that it’s OK to give him your information on the phone.
On a related note, another thing that I have been telling people for years is that if you receive an email and it asks you to log into your bank account, PayPal account, email account, etc, NEVER click on the link given in the email.В If you get an email supposedly from PayPal then you should open a new browser window, and manually type in paypal.com into the address bar with your own fingers.В Otherwise, you may be clicking on a link to a site that has stolen paypal’s pictures and only *looks* like paypal.В In the address bar, it may even have the word paypal in the website address (such as http://paypal.fakescamsite.com or http://fakescamsite.com/paypal) but when you enter your login information, it steals it, giving the scammer (or Phisher) the ability to log into your account and steal your money, change your password, etc.
One other thing that people often fail to realize is that paying with a check is an easy way to become a victim of identity or other theft.В Your bank account number is on your check.В And if you’re like most people, so is your phone number, address, middle initial, and maybe even your drivers license number, as used to be the norm a mere 10 years ago or so.
My last tip for the day: using a credit card is much safer than using a debit card.В At least if someone steals your credit card number, they can’t suck all of the money out of your bank account and make your rent check bounce, just for example!
When paying with a debit or credit card, don’t let the card out of your sight.В A common scam in the last few years has been for Scammers to pay waitstaff and other cashier type workers to skim card numbers.В It takes a split second for them to scan the card a 2nd time into a handheld reader, and the numbers they collect are sold to the scammer who gave them the machine to use.В Then, they make a copy of the card and use it a month or two later and max it out quickly before you know what’s happening.
In 2009, the town where my parents live became victim to a similar scam, where someone tampered with the ATM machine at their bank, and was able to record the debit card numbers and pin numbers.В The bank caught it after only a few days, but it put thousands of debit card users at risk, who then had to get new cards “just in case”, since the bad guys weren’t actually caught, just their equipment was.
This concludes today’s informative rant about scams and keeping your financial information safe.В I hope you learned something, and that it helps keep you safe in the future.В В Remember, a fool and their money are soon parted… be skeptical and be safe!
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Jessica Franke is the owner of Green Web Design, a full service Website Design, Web Hosting, Domain Registrar, and Online Marketing firm.В She is also the owner of 50 States Classifieds, and has been providing Free Classifieds online since 2002.В For more articles written by Jessica Franke, visit her blog.
January 27, 2010
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Help MusicSkins Fight Cancer!
Help MusicSkins Fight Cancer!
MusicSkins.com, Hopeless Records, Sub City, and The Take Action Tour are joining forces to battle Leukemia. Help the fight by purchasing any product from MusicSkins.com on 1/25/2010 – 5% of all sales will be donated to the Driving For Donors charity.
MusicSkins are premium vinyl skins for iPods, phones, laptops, and much more. Get MusicSkins for all of your favorite bands and artists such as All Time Low, We The Kings, There For Tomorrow, Avenged Sevenfold, Bob Marley, Lil Wayne, The Beatles, and over 500 more. You can even upload your own photos and images to make custom MusicSkins. Support a great cause and become even cooler in the process!
Every year, thousands of people get life-threatening diseases like leukemia and lymphoma that can be treated with cellular therapies such as a marrow transplant. Seventy percent of patients do not have a matched donor in their family so they depend on the life saving action of people who sign up for the National Marrow Registry and it’s as easy as a cotton swab of the cheek and two simple forms.
Driving For Donors exists to draw donors, attention, and funds to the cause. The nonprofit organization is the brainchild of now 14-year-old Patrick Pedraja who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 10. In 2007, at age 11, Patrick and his family started Driving For Donors and traveled around the country in a special “Donormobile” with the mission of signing people up for the National Marrow Registry to help find bone marrow matches for people in need of a transplant. Since then they have added over 22,000 donors to the registry, saved more than 24 people’s lives with matches and helped raise over $100,000 for tissue typing fees and drive expenses by selling advertising on Patrick’s bald head. Patrick has been honored by the United States Congress, CNN Heroes, DoSomething.org and has appeared on numerous television shows to promote this cause.
Check out some of the skins for your iPhone from We The Kings here.
January 26, 2010
Tags: Cancer, Charities, Charity, Fight Cancer, Fighting Cancer, Fundraising, Good Causes, Music, Music Skins, Music Skins LLC, Music-Skins.com, MusicSkins, MusicSkins.com Posted in: Charity, Friends, Partners & Colleagues, Music Skins, Press Releases, Public Awareness No Comments
