It’s gaining quite alot of interest, I’ve had a few private offers, one being $3,000 (around £2k?) but I think i’m going to let the auction run. I’ve also been looking at past sites sold on a similar scale to Talk Playstation and they have gone for $4k.

The auction is currently sitting at $600 and I only put the listing on last night, it runs out next Monday/Tuesday night, we’ll see where we are at then.

I’m quite happy with what I’ve achieved and learnt from running the site, the stats are excellent. Here’s some of the highlights:-

• Page Rank 4
• 28k backlinks
• 66.72% of the 45k monthly visits come from Google
• Had a steady income via Adsense

Anyway, we’ll see where we are at next week. I did mention just before Xmas that Talk Playstation is worth around $3.5 to $9.5k.

• Liverpool (me)
• Blackburn (colleague 2)
• Manchester United (colleague 3)
• Barcelona (colleague 4)

Manchester United came first, Liverpool came second, Blackburn came third and Barcelona came last. Manchester United and Liverpool made it to the cup final where Manchester United beat Liverpool. Not to worry though because i said i want to use a team i’m good with and that’s Barcelona. So in league 6 i used Barcelona.

We have played league 6 and it’s the last league, we are giving Fifa 08 a break for now. League 6 looked like this:

• Barcelona (me)
• Chelsea (colleague 2)
• Manchester United (colleague 3)
• Arsenal (colleague 4)

What an interesting league this was. The two best players (me and colleague 3) drew against the two worst players in our first games. However, we won against the worse players in the rest of our games. Now then, the hardest part is playing potentially the best player, colleague 3. The first game Manchester United beat Barcelona with a lucky injury time goal. BUT i’m glad to say Barcelona THRASHED Manchester United in second time around by not 1-0, not 2-0 but 3-0! This gave me the lead and won on goal difference by 3 goals.

So the competition has ended and altogether i won: £55 which isn’t bad at all. All i can say is that i were the best at Fifa 08 and no one could come close to me apart from colleague 3 who i tactically outclassed him in our last game.

What’s happening next is we are switching game to Project Gotham Racing 4. The colleagues have the advantage over me because it’s on the Xbox 360, they all own one and i don’t, i prefer the PS3.

We’ll have to see what happens.

League 4

Well, i didn’t win this league like i said i would, but i came second which i’m happy about.

• Hamburg SV (me)
• Chelsea (colleague 1)
• Sporting Lisbon (colleague 2)
• Barcelona (colleague 3)

Chelsea finished top, Hamburg second, Sporting Lisbon third and Barcelona fourth. The cup was a different story. I got knocked out in the first round and so did Sporting Lisbon. Guess who won the cup? Yes that’s right the colleague who has never won anything won the cup!

I have a few excuses to why i didn’t win the league or cup – i didn’t have a 5 star team so i didn’t have the pace of strength like Chelsea and Barcelona do.

We agreed that whoever comes top has to pick a 4 star team, second 4 and half star team, third and fourth 5 star teams. This makes it fair.

Anyway, i warned all colleagues that in league 5 i will be using a 4 and a half star team and i choose Liverpool.

League 5

League 5 will be an interesting one. It currently looks like this:

• Liverpool (me)
• Blackburn (colleague 2)
• Manchester United (colleague 3)
• Barcelona (colleague 4)

I’ve played a game and beat Blackburn 3-0.  Blackburn (colleague 2) gave me some stick when he beat me in the previous league and i just warned him that i used the wrong team – 4 stars! I thrashed Blackburn – enough said. Carrying on, Manchester United beat Barcelona 3-0, which leaves us joint first.

I might be able to win this league, i think i will struggle against Manchester United – Anything can happen in football.

I was surprised that my credit limit is £1,200, my friends applied for the same credit card and only got £200-£500. Anyway, i have 0% interest for 9 months, i may buy a few things here and there with it but i’m not going to go over the top.

League 3

• Italy (me)
• England (colleague 1)
• France (colleague 2)
• Brazil (colleague 3)

France won the league this time, Italy came second, England came 3rd and Brazil came last. While i lost the league i thought i would be giving colleague 2 £5. We all proceeded with the cup, and Italy won the cup so i didn’t have to give any money out because if you win the cup you don’t have to pay, you keep the £5 you put in the pot.

League 4

We started league 4, we said that the top 2 players in the last league (me and colleague 2) would be 4 star teams and the other rubbish players would be 5 star teams. League 4 looks like this…

• Hamburg SV (me)
• Chelsea (colleague 1)
• Sporting Lisbon (colleague 2)
• Barcelona (colleague 3)

So far we have all played twice. So i lost to Chelsea and beat Sporting Lisbon (the best player next to me). Sporting Lisbon has lost 1 and won 1 and Barcelona has lost both games. Chelsea have won both games up to now. So that leaves Chelsea top, Hamburg SV in second, Lisbon in 3rd and Barcelona last.

I’m confident i will win this league again, i’m currently £45 up, i plan to stretch that to £60 and go on to win the cup.

If i don’t win the league, i might take the money and run.

Quidco charge £5, but they only take £5 off you if you have made more than £5 cashback, so it’s not all too bad. I went on a massive spending spree at Christmas and did all my shopping online because i found Quidco. If your looking for a good cashback service, i really recommend Quidco. The only downfall is that they aren’t worldwide so only people from the UK can use them. I’ve mentioned before of other cashback services in other countries. I would highly recommend using cashback services online if you do a lot of shopping online, even if you do a bit of shopping, the cashbacks soon add up.

Who is Smemon?

Smemon is an Irish internet entrepreneur who wants to make a living online. He gave up his day job in May 2007 to work on the internet in the hopeful moment to earn money online.

He has already started to make some money online as you can see from his blogs monthly income, they aren’t huge incomes but they will do for now.

In the past he has released a free eBook before called ‘Guide to WordPress’ which takes you on a step by step journey to setting up your very own blog using WordPress. This is very useful if you haven’t a clue what to do.

40 ways to make money

His latest eBook ’40 way to make money’ is gaining him reputation and of course money, so i’m looking forwards to seeing his February income report. Smemon has sold a number of sites in the past, January/February being the best month for him so far. Theres a thread on the digital point forums about the eBook, he’s selling it there for $9 so go get it quick before that price goes up!

Once i’ve read the eBook i’ll be reviewing it here, so stay tuned!

If you do alot of shopping online, i would highly reccommend using cashback services because each cashback does mount up and you could mount up a good sum. Heres my cashback status on Quidco:

As you can see i’ve not been paid yet, but is all due at the end of the month all being well. The cashback time can vary depending on merchan speed. Quidco is UK based. You can use Quidco on merchants such as eBay, play.com and more.

Here are some american based cashback services:-

• http://www.treasuretrooper.com/
• http://www.fatwallet.com/
• http://www.spree.com/

Do a simple search on google for cashback services in your country.