7. Know if merchant offers a warranty or money back guarantee or before bidding on a product. You don't want to get stuck with a product that does not work or you're not satisfied with.

8. Online auctions will, sometimes, allow you to check merchants history with their auction. Check to see if people have complained about their products or business practices before you decide to bid.

9. It's important to place a bid early in auction to show other bidders you are interested in product. If someone does out bid you, don't be afraid to out bid them. Remember not to go over your maximum bid price.

10. Another reason to know when auction ends; you can place a last minute bid. The other bidders may not be keeping track of when auction ends or may not have time to bid again.

Their Basic FREE service is now little more than a Business Card Web Page, with ads inserted and a forwarding email address.

The next step up is their Charter service which allows members 35mb of disk space with a monthly fee of $7.95. On top of that, there is also a set-up fee of $7.95.

It is VERY doubtful that they will continue to boast of nearly 1 MILLION members.

Especially when you consider that there are still many web sites around that provide same level of service for FREE on which Bizland.com wants to start charging a monthly fee.

A survey in our FBCN newsletter clearly showed that 100% of our 282 respondents, would NOT pay a fee for service or content they can aquire elsewhere for FREE.

Perhaps some online businesses can get away with now charging a FEE for previously FREE services or content.

However, any business playing with idea of changing their structure would do well to research competition.

The Internet was born on a FREE exchange of ideas.

I do feel we will NEVER see complete removal of all FREE based services from Internet.

However, it is only natural to presume that some online businesses MUST charge a fee or cease to exist.

Which ones will depend on unique type of service or content that they provide.

However, I predict that most valuable properties online will be those that have a business model based on BOTH FREE content and services, but with FEE based content and services that are much more enhanced.

The promise of a FREE service or content will continue to drive traffic to a web site. Once there, visitors will be given option of paying to receive PREMIUM or ENHANCED service and content.

That will be nature of , "The New Internet".