Moving House - all went well apart from internet connection!

I moved house on 1st February which was fairly stressful but pretty much everything went OK. Everything that is except the broadband transfer!

BT (good old British Telecom) moved my phone line over to the new address and told me that the broadband would be transferred within 12 hours of reconnection. I figured that this short break in communications with the outside world would be bearable and lets face it I had a lot of other things to be getting on with.

No connection within 12 hours so I contacted the BT helpdesk (somewhere in India I think) and they told me that broadband takes a week to move. A week? We can talk to the other side of the world via videolink instantly but to plug a few wires in at the exchange and press a few buttons it takes a WEEK! So Mr BT couldn't give a toss and told me "computer says no!"

Luckly my ebook delivery is on my work laptop so once I got to work on Monday all the emails were sent with download links for the sales over the weekend. I also got a bunch of emails from customers asking where their ebooks were! Hassle.

This got me thinking, maybe it is time I take the automation one step further and invest in a digital delivery system which means I don't need to be connected myself for the ebooks to be delivered, something like mydigitaldispatch MyDD v2

Sales are good and constant and the automation provided by ebay sellers tools like Selling Manager Pro and the Ebay Store make it easy, but ensuring you have a constant internet connection to allow Outlook Express to deliver the download details is a pain. In fact if ebay.co.uk provided the digital download category like ebay.com does then it would all be covered by ebay.

Quick Update - over 2200 ebooks sold on ebay alone in 4 months

Cheers James

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