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About the Company proprietor A.K.A. Me.

(Who is it you will be dealing with)

I'm a near 72 year old mechanic on enforced retirement due to injury some years ago. I have always had a very inquiring mind and have for ever been interested in all things technical, scientific and interesting. Being a self confessed Mr. D.I.Y. I have turned my hand to almost every field of endeavor one could imagine since I first started picking up dad's tools to play with.

 I admit that as a consequence I am indeed a Jack of all trades and a Master of none as the saying goes, however that doesn't bother me when I think about the tens of thousands of dollars I must have saved the family over the years by being able to turn my hand to repairing almost anything mechanical, electrical, timber, boat repair, engine rebuilds etc. name it and I probably have done it.

 I have done a few years in the Royal Australian Army, joined to go to Vietnam but ended up not going. That was a disappointment but probably a blessing too. The best thing about being in the army is, that's where I met my wonderful wife of 47 years and yes, we are still together and I am much more than lucky on that score, indeed I am blessed.

 Recreation wise my greatest love has always been no.1, fishing , football when I was much younger and when even younger still I had a gymnastics troupe formed at primary school with which I used to tour country schools and youth clubs putting on demonstrations. The good old days.

 In more recent years things have changed for me quite a lot.  Just 3  months after marrying my much better half  back in  1976 I  unfortunately got crushed under of all things - an army truck. At the time I was told that I would never walk again and would be wheelchair bound the rest of my life.

 Thanks to medical advances I eventually got a surgeon to operate on my back and remove he crushed vertebrae and fuse the remaining ones to allow me to walk again. The operation was a complete success though it would be done very differently if I was having it done today.

I was left able to walk but in great pain and though able to walk the chronic pain has meant that I've never been able to participate in my previous activities such as being a mechanic etc.and I ended up having to find things I could earn a living at while sitting down.

As it happened my accident occurred 3 months after getting married, and 3 months after leaving the army. I ended up fighting one of the largest trucking companies in the world in court because of the unsafe equipment that failed and caused me to be crushed. After exhausting funds and legal aid I lost the case and got nothing. You can't fight multinational companies on an invalid pension.

 So what was I to do to keep my sanity, there was little left to me that I enjoyed doing except maybe fishing. Fishing -YEAH! I had enough from my army severance pay to buy a reasonable outside boat, which I did. I fell in love with the healthy lifestyle, out on the reef by 3.30 AM six days a week fishing primarily for snapper, kingfish, tuna and larger species for which I could earn as it turned out - quite a respectable living.

 It was hard at first till my body hardened up to withstand the early starts, cold, and the rigors of rocking and rolling all day long in a small boat miles from shore. After a while however I came to absolutely love the whole business of being a professional fisherman and knowing with confidence that if I fished a certain area under certain conditions of wind and tide and sea state I could more than reasonably expect to take home a very respectable pay packet at the end of my day.

As things progressed and I really knew what I was doing I was usually able to be on my way home by 7AM with a respectable pay packet for the morning having started at 3 to 3.30 AM - this was the life for me, or so I thought.

 I persisted with this behaviour even after many years and even though my chronic back pain and joint pains was by then becoming ridiculous.

The money was ok and I wanted to provide for my family as best I could for as long as I could, knowing that soon enough I would not be able to do it any longer.

 That day came about 26  years ago, I presented to a doctor, something I rarely ever did back then, only to be told that if I did not want to be totally incapacitated and bedridden I needed to stop going to sea and get into something very different to make a living.

 This might seem a funny time to start cutting my story short but it's about now I usually start to get quite upset about my whole predicament and don't want to go into it any deeper so forgive me but I won't. I have had a small Commodore 64 computer business as a side interest for many years and till 22 years ago had just a single PC to access the Internet and never thought I would get much more into computers than that.

 After taking an interest in programming and a subsequent course at Southport T.A.F.E. where I earned a Certificate III in Information Technology I now have a bank of PC's networked, my wife has one, I build and repair them, teach and do as much as I can from my home workshop but my inability to stand for more than a few minutes a day and inability to drive or do so many things I used to do to make a living have made it necessary for me find other avenues of income.

 It seems a natural progression now but since I have been sedentary an unable to exercise for the last few years my weight has ballooned out in excess of 300 pounds, I desperately need several operations which I can't afford and it seems to me that with the resources I now have available to me I might as well make a serious effort to become an Internet marketer.

 I have made more than a good go of most things I have attempted to do in my  past and as I have already developed an avid interest in marketing , this site you are at right now is the beginning of  what I hoped to develop as an income earning asset for my wife, children  and myself for our years ahead.

 Yes my story has a lot left out, in fact a great lot left out but I think you have seen a glimpse of my background.

I just want to continue doing whatever I can to hopefully insure a residual income for my wife and children when I am gone as doctors have made it very clear I am living on borrowed time and have little hope of regaining my health given my circumstances.

 I was designing and building this site "live" so to speak as an experiment to determine some real facts and figures and real trends in marketing on the Internet generally.

By starting as I plan to continue, openly and honestly, not trying to pretend I am some kind of an expert or instant Guru I hope that people will learn to trust me and will be happy to deal with me when they can see that I am a real person putting in the time and effort to establish myself as an honest trustworthy marketer.

This, as it turns out is the point at which all my grand ideas have been flipped on their heads as doctors have made it patently clear that I should start getting my affairs in order as soon as I can.

  A great deal of soul searching and thinking about what is really important that I might actually be able to accomplish in whatever time I have left, is what I need to be thinking about.

I have decided to strip down and change the purpose of this site and all I intend to do with it now is to use it as a venue to sell off a lifetime's worth of trade tools, Marine related and fishing gear and accessories and many years worth of collected electronics components, bits and pieces as well as a lot of left over Commodore 64 related software hardware books etc.

In the past 10-15 years I have also accumulated a lot of PC & laptop hardware of all kinds and a reasonable lot of electronics componentry & spares I have bought as these days I am an avid electronics tinkerer and always buying parts for projects that I now regret I will most likely never even start.

Due to the fact that I am entirely wheelchair bound these days I have taken to watching the local auctions and have very useful items that were bought for that one day when we may need it.

Well that day has come and I Need to Sell it for the sake of my dear wife and family as I am sure they would probably dispose of most of it not knowing it's actual value and I certainly do not want to see that happen.

Essentially my dear readers I need to turn a great lot of collected stuff derived from having an inquiring mind and some would say from being a bit of a hoarder. Don't beleive them it just isn't true.

As I have said this will be a site from which I will be selling off many years of accumulated stuff a bloke collects over a lifetime at very reasonable prices. People in a position to pick up bought items will be in a position to save a lot of extra money.

As to my bonafides I can only assure you by pointing to my 25 plus years as an eBay trader with 100% rating as a buyer and seller all the way. No doubt I can point to other proof and will do so if needed as I have never been in this position before.

Once I have finished re-editing my site with the assistance of my server Chilli.com, I will be posting notices on many of the usual social media sites that allow such things, so as many of my previous customers and anyone interested in good deals will be able to jump in early to see what you can pick up.

I can only tell you that when you start seeing posts on your Social Media platform advertising links to https:/www.marketingbarnyard.com prick your ears and have a look before everyone else. You just might pick up some really good deals. Hope to see some new faces along with the old. Thanks for your time and if you read it all and your perseverance too!