It is now pointing to a new site and passing on all the PR and link juice from all the fairtrade websites who haven’t noticed the site is no longer there and are still linking to it.

The site it is being pointed to appears to be in the process of being set up as a directory, no doubt to use the PR7 status to get people to register.

Who says black hat and opportunism doesn’t pay

My partner came home from work incredibly stressed the other evening. She does have a one hell of job though, as she’s responsible for transportation and logistics at a small London-based clothing company. This ‘fall’, as the Americans say, the label has been invited to show their spring 2011 collection at New York Fashion Week for the first time ever!

Now whilst you and I would think this is good news, for my wife it meant working out how to get the goodies over to the US of A. It seems air freight is the only way to transport these precious payloads (as she keeps telling me, each piece is lovingly made by hand and a one off, so technically priceless!).

Problem is, air freight is also notoriously expensive. Having spent the best part of a working day trying to get quotes for airfreight companies, my nearest and dearest came home tired and (dare I say it) grumpy.

Recently, I read about a website that claims to sort out the most competitive quotes going for all types of shipping, including air freight services from the UK. Once I’d found the site at deliveryquotecompare.com, I registered and put up the details of the shipment.

Now what happens next is the clever bit. I chose the auction format, which means all companies bidding to air freight your goods can see what each rival company has bid, which generally means the price gets lower, not higher! Brilliant!

Sure enough a couple days later there was a raft of quotes from international air freight carriers to choose from. I have to say my wife was suitably impressed and the website has been firmly bookmarked as a favourite in the office for future shipments. Result.

County Search allows you to select a county and then search for businesses in each category.

What does Randy think about it?

Did something go wrong at Google between 12th August and 20th August 2010?

Is the recession back ?

Is your job safe ?

Is it time to tighten the belt ?

House price slump around the corner ?

Job cuts even harsher than expected ?

Shops boarded up in the High streets ?

Close your bin lids or pay for collection ?

Rioting on the streets ?

Spending your childrens inheritance ?

Wife sleeping with your debt advisor ?

Aldi not so bad afterall ?

Mother in law always said you could never look after her princess ?

Cat  moved in next door ?

They appear to have 3 hen themed hampers at the moment

1. Egg themed Christmas Hampers
2. Poultry themed Christmas Hampers
3. Hen Gift Themed Christmas Hampers

No prices displayed yet, but from what I can remember, their chicks were going cheap last year.

I’ve just checked the purchases I have made this year;

A couple of  album downloads – iTunes

Software for PC – Amazon

wii games – Amazon

Clothes – Marks and Spencers

Clothes – Next

Clothes – Joules (catalogue in post)

Toys for kids birthday – Argos

Books for kids bithday – Amazon

Toys for kids bithday – Amazon

New washing machine – Currys

Stationary – Staples

Ink – CartridgeSave (got a sticker on my printer from somewhere)

New cooker – Currys

Vacuum cleaner – Currys

In fact I can’t remember a single thing I have bought via a google search, I might flick through google to compare prices, but still end up going direct to the same places even if they are up to 20% more expensive.