McGavock Nissan Amarillo, the last place to buy a Nissan

My first dealings with McGavock Nissan in Amarillo is when we were looking for a new Altima. We test drove one on the used lot why the salesman telling me he could get me $500 for my car. I could have sold the engine alone for that much. Their prices were a couple grand above where they should be, so we found one elsewhere. Your typical shady dealership in my mind.

So we come to today. I needed a recall done so I thought I would get us a 2nd key, since we only had 1. I was quoted $100 for a new key when I set up the appointment along with having a recall done. Drop the car off and never hear anything about the cost or what it should be. The new keys are expensive, I know this before hand. The prices I had seen online never topped $200 to have it done, so I thought maybe they had a decent rate. WRONG!  When I come back a few hours later to pick it up, all I hear is that it will be $362. WHAT!?

Who and the hell quotes $100 and doesnt mention the other $262? The $100 is the labor cost alone (which is a rip in any profession for what was maybe 30 minutes of work at best). $13 for the blank key and $15 to cut it. $200 for the blank microchip part with $20 in tax.

Want to buy a Nissan and live in the TX Panhandle around Amarillo? Go elsewhere unless you want to deal with the worst dealerships around.

I am so sick of dishonest practices in this world. Dont want to get blasted on the internet, treat your customer right and I would be praising your work instead.

Google Adsense = Waste of Time

This is a warning for others, so you don't waste your time like I did (and many others have from the stories I have heard). I had been using Google AdSense for the past few years, but I had only accumulated a couple bucks from it, far from reaching the payout of $100. In the last year it had picked up to where the $100 payout was actually a possibility down the road (still at least a year away). I had spent a good amount of time placing the adds in good spots but not enough to annoy anyone. Always followed their rules and never clicked on on any of the ads on my own page intentionally or tried to get other people to click on them. I had also enabled the partnership program with YouTube, which I think most the revenue was coming from. It took forever to be accepted into that program. I had got most of the 200,000 views that I have now, before even being accepted. YouTube is flooded with videos now so my views have fell drastically from what I was doing in 2008 and 2009, by the thousands.

I got an alert the other day AdSense had locked my account because of invalid click activity, which killed my YouTube Partnership Program as well. I appealed to no avail and got no explanation. Too bad Google doesn't make it more clear they never intend to pay you a dime, so I could have spent that time on something more important. Considering my appeal was denied at 1:30am seems like an automatic denial if I have every seen one. I seriously doubt any human even looked at my case. I just wanted to say "Thanks Google", this blog is for you.

Dark side of Ebay - michiganative

99% of my Ebay transactions have gone smoothly, but this is the case of another one that didnt. It always seems to be the ones over $100. This jack nut - michiganative - http://myworld.ebay.com/michiganative, sent me a computer that had a bad hard drive, but would power on (supposedly). Well, it didnt. The lights would flash on and turn right back off. After a slow week of emails he finally agrees to a refund. I ship it back and wait a few weeks for him to figure it out. I continuously email him asking for my refund to no avail. After having the computer some time he claims the case is cracked and it is worth less now because of the crack (not that it was worth anything cause it didnt work) and that he can only give a partial refund. It has been over 2 months now and I have not even got a partial refund. I got screwed by ebay and their very short time periods to file a claim because this guy dragged everything out so far. So now thanks to this guy and Ebay, I am out a couple hundred bucks and dont even have the broke computer to show for it.

As much as I like ebay, you have to be very careful who you buy from and be sure to know exactly what all you can do and when you can do it.