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First Shipping Cart Experience - Hint: A GOOD One!

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I don't usually order items online even locally due to some hesitation especially for scams much more for items from outside the country. But sometimes the items I am looking for is not available on local stores or even in Malls, so what choice do I have? The first item I ordered online was an SSD for my old Toshiba laptop ( which I was using for about 2-years while working online ) since it was a good deal from macsales.com as it was a sale. International shipping cost are quite high and much more if using branded couriers. That time I used USPS priority mail. Yes they issue a tracking number but only effective before it leaves the US, after that no more updates when it is hand over to Philippines' Postal Service. It's a waiting game and trust that your item will arrive at the correct Post Office. Yes, the item I ordered arrived and there's a small fee, about P50 before I can get the item. I installed it and I was happy with the item! I had heard some 3rd p

My first Php 78.22 - Buying and Selling Bitcoin using coins.ph

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I know it's kinda late for a tech-savvy kind of person like me adopting cryptocurrency but looking at the surge of prices last December 2017 that made me thinking, " If only I bought a few coins (not satoshi) a few years ago when it was affordable, I could be rich now :( " That is the beauty of not knowing the future. Last January 9, 2018 when the price of a bitcoin is still around Php 801,191 (yeah that's really high) - I signed up for an account at coins.ph  and said to myself "why not try for myself what this cryptocurrency is, bitcoin in particular and how it feels like to be in the market of bitcoin trading" . I used GCash to fund my coins.ph account, added Php 1,000.00 and converted it to satoshi -- a small part of a bitcoin, since I can't afford one whole bitcoin. :) Guess what, after a few hours the bitcoin price drops and the drop is quite steep that when you're new to investing you'll say to yourself, "abort, get your c