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If you are looking for a mobile phone deal for your business, a question that you need to consider is whether you want to arrange things yourself, or whether you want to do it through a third party supplier and have them manage your account for you. On the one hand, it may seem more cost effective to deal directly with the network, rather than paying a monthly management fee to a shop.

You do actually get a lot of value from a company managing your mobile phone account on your behalf, and it is definitely worth considering having someone on hand to look after your interests.

The first major expense in managing things yourself is that you will need to pay a member of staff to manage the mobile phone usage, pay the bills and check any calls, as well as arranging for new phones if something goes wrong or an employee loses their handset or has it stolen.

A management company will handle all of the day to day running of your business mobile phone account, and generally be able to sort things out a lot quicker than the network. They will typically have an agreement with you under which they will be able to replace a handset the same day as it goes missing, and also ensure that all the bill queries are able to be handled immediately and discreetly.

Another reason why a specialised communications firm is a good idea to manage your mobile phones is that they will be able to calculate the best possible deal for your business. They will constantly analyse your usage, and swap contracts to get you the best possible price, and in the long run, this may well result in you saving more money across all of your phones than you actually pay out for the service in the first place.

Of course, the major mobile phone networks all have their own in house business account managers, but the drawback of these is that they are not always able to offer a completely personalised service to every smaller company, or manage accounts as well as every business would like, as they simply have too many clients to be able to deal with each of them in a personal way.

The other thing about using a management company to look after your company mobile phones is that they will not tie you to a single network, and always be checking to earn you the best possible price, because that is what they are paid to do.

Mark Hirst writes for Best Mobile Contracts, a website that specialises in finding the best mobile phone deals. We compare the market in seconds saving you time and money. For Nokia N95 deals visit us today.

The number of consumers who will purchase golf equipment online is growing rapidly. While this trend is creating huge sales numbers and opening doors for many new business’s, it is also bringing a lot of negative to the golf industry. Online auction sites like Ebay and DHGate have many sellers who are selling replica golf clubs and claiming they are authentic. Ebay along with Paypal have taken means of eliminating these sellers, but getting rid of them all is impossible. DHgate, which some might be unfamiliar with, is a total different story.

DHGate is a wholesale trading marketplace based out of China. They have sellers marketing all kinds of products like golf clubs,ipods,clothing,consumer electronics, televisions, and much more. They claim the golf clubs come from China OEM factories and are authentic. This is the first sign you are buying knock off golf clubs. The brand name golf companies(Taylor Made, Callaway, etc..) will tell you there is no such thing as buying their golf equipment directly form the factory. The brand name companies purchase the golf club components and then professionally install them in the United States. The sellers on DHGate will advertised prices that look to good to be true. They are!

If you have already bought your new golf club and are curious if it is authentic or not there are a few ways to check yourself.

1. Go to google images and search the club that you have bought. Compare the picture to the club in your hand. Are the color schemes the same? Are the logos the in same place? Do the shafts look alike? If the picture and the club in your hand have any differences at all you have a knock off.

2. Check the hosel of the club where the head and shaft are connected. Is there areas around that connection that look hand painted? If so you’re probably looking at a knock off.
3. Was the golf club you purchased ordered and shipped from China? If so, chance are you have a knock off. The majority of the fake/knock off golf clubs originate from China.
4. Finally, the easiest way to tell is to contact your local golf club retailer and give them the serial number located on the hosel of the golf club.

To prevent yourself from purchasing non authentic golf equipment do your research prior to purchasing anything! This will save you a lot of time and money trying to get refunds and having to pay return shipping charges. Best of luck out there consumers.

Chris Durell has done a lot of research into the golf industry the past two months. He has opened an online business retailing in golf clubs, golf training equipment, and much more. Please visit http://www.cdhgolf.com

A bad credit history is like having contracted an infectious disease. At least this is what most lenders perceive. Any requests for personal loans by people with a bad credit history are generally declined. They are charged an extravagantly high rate of interest, if advanced personal loans.

What these lenders fail to recognize is that the people who are currently rated as a bad credit case were sometimes having a good credit history. Some acts of the past, which were sometimes inevitable, became the reason for theirs being tarnished with bad credit.

It will be illogical to punish the people for acts of the past. Besides there are few means to guarantee that a person otherwise rated as a perfect credit case, may default on the loan.

Lenders have slowly started accepting the fact. The growing number of people falling in the trap of bad credit has brought home the fact that they cannot do without doing business with these people.

Besides opening practically every loan for people with bad credit, more and more loan products have come up to cater to the specialized group. There are similar options for the people with bad credit, as for the people with a good or average credit.

Bad credit personal loans are used for a variety of purposes like buying a car or going on a holiday. They are also widely used in debt consolidation.

Bad credit becomes irrelevant if the person has and is ready to keep some asset as collateral. The main idea behind the refusal to the people with bad credit is that they fear that the default will be repeated. With a collateral to back the personal loan, the lender is assured that the loan would not be defaulted. The borrower knows that he will have to lose the asset, generally home, if he defaults on the loan.

The requirement of collateral can be done away with in case of an unsecured personal loan. Lenders rarely offer such loans. A good credit history is a pre-requisite in such loans. But, there are always some lenders who take consideration of your case. Lenders accept borrowers with a bad credit history because of inevitable reasons.

Bad credit personal loans normally carry a higher rate of interest. This is because of the higher risk potential in such loans. One may also be overcharged on this account. The borrowers are asked to pay a hefty charge and have to face some inflexible terms of payment.

Nevertheless, there are lenders who charge reasonably lower rates of interest. Taking a loan is not a trivial matter. It puts an important asset to stake. It also affects the financial condition of the borrower. This makes a proper search for the loan a priority. Gone are the days when searching the loan market would have raised hackles of people. Today searching has become much simpler, thanks to the power of information technology.

The selection of the most appropriate lender is not that easy a task. Though made simpler through information technology, ones mental faculties are the best resort in the selection process. Lenders generally promise many features along with the loan. Borrowers take this bait and fall in the trap. Failing to maintain an optimum balance between an immediate comfort and a future comfort also leads to this trap.

Deciding the monthly repayments and the number of installments further strain your mental faculties. An expert advice from knowledgeable people will help in this decision. Being aware of ones financial condition, the borrower can decide the various details of the loan in a much better manner. Thus, the final decision is reserved with the borrower himself.

A bad credit personal loan has a positive impact on ones credit history, provided the repayments to the loan are made regularly.

James Taylor holds a Master’s degree in Commerce from JNU he is working as financial consultant for

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This HP1723 17″ LCD Monitor came in with the complaint of no power. Upon further inspection I could hear a soft intermittent sound coming from the both front speakers. Since the speakers can produce some sound, this indicates that the power supply should be working fine and it may be some bad components located at the secondary side that had caused the power supply voltage to drop not to start. The power LED doesn’t light because the signal was coming from the Microcontroller (MCU) IC. This means that if the MCU did not receive the right voltage from the power supply, it will not send output voltage to the power LED.

As usual, to open LCD Monitor cover , one have to be careful of not scratching or leaving a mark on the plastic casing otherwise the customer may not want to accept his or her broken or badly scratch LCD Monitor. Once the cover have been removed, you have to remove another four screws (two at each side) in order to take out the power/inverter and the Main board. For some LCD Monitors, the moment you have open the cover, you could easily remove all the boards.

The power supply and the inverter circuit are in one board while the Main board and the audio board are in separate board. As mentioned before in my previous articles, I do not immediately begin to troubleshoot and repair any board unless I have scanned all the components with my eyes first. The power supply/inverter board look very new and the most obvious sign that I could see was two filter capacitors (1000uf 16 Volt) had a slight bulge on top of its casing. I believe these bulged electrolytic capacitors that had caused the power supply not to function properly. I have checked all other e-caps too but all found to be good.

Usually whenever a filter capacitor located at the secondary side of switch mode power supply (SMPS) have a too high ESR value, the voltage will drop more than half causing many circuits won’t work. Since I already found the bad e-caps, I have to be certain that the secondary diodes (this LCD Monitor is using Schottky diodes) don’t go faulty or leaky too. Upon checking the Schottky diodes (part number are SRF20100C and SP10150) I found both of them to be working fine. Replacing only the two bad e-caps with a good one solved the LCD Monitor problem.

Now get this, if you want to be good in any electronic equipment repair, if possible analyze other circuits too. That means if you every time replace only the fuse and the bridge rectifier you won’t learn anything beyond that problem and you will get bored easily. Let’s take my case for example, after the replacement of the capacitors I will usually analyze other circuits too like finding out what kind of part numbers certain components are using, which type of the inverter circuit is belong to i.e. Buck Royer or direct drive?, why each backlight circuit are using four ballast capacitors?, How many backlights the LCD Monitor is using, what is the inverter IC part number, what is the supply voltage to the inverter IC? How many LED bar lighted up when test on the secondary winding of the high voltage transformer? What would happen if I pull out one of the backlight (will it still work or shut down?). What is the brightness line voltage if set to minimum and maximum? You have to answer all of these questions if you want to be good at LCD Monitor repair. You can apply this kind of questions on other electronic equipment too. This is a continuous process of learning how to be good in electronic repair.

I don’t want you to replace caps or fuse everyday without knowing how other circuits function or what are the components used in other circuits. Although to analyze other circuits take you lots of time but I can guarantee you that the time you have spent are worth it. You won’t be able to go far if you have set your thinking by just changing components and not knowing the surrounding. If you want to improve in electronic repair then you need a change of mindset in you and only you yourself can make the different! Try this approach and I believe troubleshooting electronic or LCD Monitor repair will never be the same again. Have a great and a fantastic year!

Jestine Yong is a writer and electronic repairer, for more LCD Monitor repair information, please visit his website at http://www.lcd-monitor-repair.com