Monday, August 23, 2004

Late this afternoon, I received an e-mail with subject line: SAVE ME, from Malaysia. The 'boy' said that I must help him with the amount of US$ 7,000,000.00 because his parents were fighting all the time and he needs help. If nothing is done with his problems at home, he's going to commit suicide. The e-mail did not eleborate what is the money for but, he said he's visiting my site regularly and that I have some money recently. He said, what am I going to do with my wealth if someone will commit suicide should I turn him down.

Prank e-mail or not, I was trying to look for that mail today but, I couldn't find it. My mail option was set to empty trash folder upon exit of Mozilla mail client. I want to advise this 'boy' to join BlogShares and enjoy fantasy money than thinking of commiting suicide.

I'd thought that he might have seen my BlogShares portfolio located at the right side navigation on this page for which I have over B$ 13 Trillion networth. Well, earlier, BlogShares offers fantasy money only but with the introduction of chips recently, some players auctioned those chips at e-Bay for real money.

Chips as BlogShares defines, "Chips are the 'social currency' of BlogShares. Unlike B$ dollars and their wildly varying value, chips are based on time spent by our members."

BlogShares chips can be used for Text Ads on BlogShares main page, buy rare or artefact ideas on special arrangements with fellow players; can be used to join in BlogShares raffles and other contests. Current value of 1 chip is more or less B$ 25 Million while 10k chips is worth US$13.50 at eBay.

At present, I ranked 2nd on BlogShares Top Chip Holders and Rank 2nd, too, on BlogShares' Best Karma. 25 chips are given for every 1 karma adjustment by a player as incentive either by voting a blog into correct industries or by moderating a vote made by a player for voting a blog. I suggest you visit BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market to know more about it.

To know how auction is done with BlogShares chips, visit Randy's auctions at eBay:

• Item number: 5916949322
• Item number: 5916949773