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Legit or Fake Business?
There’s a specific camera I’m looking to purchase and Google stated the best price for it is this store which does not have a Google “Seller Rating”. I’m only going to provide pictures and avoid using any text or a URL linked directly to the business in case they are a legit business, I don’t want to hurt any online ranking.
Reasons why I have my suspicions after not being able to find much stuff online about the store just doing a casual search.
- On the bottom of their homepage are links to their Facebook and Twitter accounts, but each takes you to accounts of this business.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they are just using this business to manage their online store and web presence. - Using Google Maps, here’s the street view of the street address listed on their website. I clicked around Google Maps on the area, and at one point, it listed a rehab facility. I never could find the name of the business.
- I searched for the phone number provided on their website. Instead of a California area code, it’s a North Carolina area code.
- I looked up the city’s chamber of commerce, and it’s not listed.
I don’t want to discredit a legit business, but as a consumer, I’m also trying to do my due diligence and wanted to get your input in case I was missing something.
Thoughts?
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Olympian sells silver medal to help pay for child’s cancer treatment
Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski found something more important than the silver medal he won in Rio.
Malachowski returned to his home country and immediately put his medal up for auction in an effort to raise money for Olek Szymanski, a 3-year-old boy suffering from a rare form of eye cancer called retinoblastoma.
Through the online auction, Malachowski attempted to raise roughly $84,000 to go towards the $126,000 cost of a surgery that could possibly save the boy’s life. A third of the money had already been raised by the Polish foundation Siepomaga.
According to ESPN, the price for the medal had reached $19,000 on Tuesday when Malachowski prematurely pulled it down. He took to Facebook and announced that Polish billionaires Dominika and Sebastian Kulczyk had agreed to purchase the medal for the remaining cost of the surgery.
Malachoswksi has another silver medal from the 2008 Beijing Games, and his Rio medal has already done much more good than it would have done sitting in his trophy case.
For those that love Jesus and Taylor Swift
There aren’t many voices in our culture that are more influential than Taylor Swift. Love her or hate her, her music is catchy and her lyrics captivating. In fact, we could argue that she is communicating with culture far more effectively than most preachers, which leads us to ask the following question:
What would happen if the church used the message of culture to communicate a greater message to culture?
Come find out how Taylor Swift can actually help you point others to the gospel of Jesus.
From The Gathering, a church in North Carolina.