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December 23

What Should I Do To Publicit My Webiste About BEYBLADE?

Is There Any Way To PUBLICIT My Website (http://www.beybladeforum.mybbnew.com) About Beyblade? Please Suggest Me, Some Help Or Any Suggestions Will Be Very Helpful.

Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mowdcowy (talk • contribs) 00:12, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

You will need to find somewhere other than Wikipedia to promote your site. Wikipedia is NOT your free web advertising service. We have guidelines and rules about what sort of sites may be linked from Wikipedia. Reliable sources and selected other sites that meet criteria for recognized value and non-promotional content. Publishing your own site on Wikipedia articles, even if it meets the criteria, is a violation of the conflict of interest policy. I hear that something called Facebook and Myspace are popular with the kiddies nowdays. Active Banana (^bananaphone 00:26, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Look for a "submit" button at your favorite search engine. —Tamfang (talk) 06:33, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

question (definition of wholesale)

I would like to know the definition of wholesale I would be grateful if someone could kindly highlight this

Thank you so much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rizuq (talk • contribs) 03:49, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Read the Wikipedia article Wholesale. --Jayron32 03:51, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

And next time try to come up with a distinctive title, unless you think you're the only one here with a question. —Tamfang (talk) 06:33, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I fixed. StuRat (talk) 06:48, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I feel the need to answer the question directly, because that article is short and poor. In addition to the definition in the article, the term "wholesale" is often short for "wholesale price", which is not defined by the article. When a company manufactures an item and sells it to a retailer, it is sold to the retailer at the "wholesale price". The retailer then sells the item to the public at the "retail price". The difference between the two prices depends on all sorts of things. In the US, a difference of 100% is, I believe, considered high (in which the manufacturer sells an item to retailers for, say, US$5.00, and the retailers sell the item to the public for US$10.00). Consumers usually can't buy items from manufacturers at the wholesale price because (a) the retailers all get angry at the manufacturers when they try such schemes, and (b) the "onesey-twosey" character of sales directly to the consumer generally isn't judged to be worth it to the manufacturer if they're only selling it to you at the wholesale price. They'd prefer to direct you to your local retail store to purchase the item (at the retail price). Comet Tuttle (talk) 20:30, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

"Let's Be Friends" song

I've been hearing a song on such stations as Movin' 99.7 recently. It starts out "Let's be friends", and then has a few other lines that rhyme with "friends". The chorus goes "Woah-oh, I want some more, woah-oh, what are you waiting for?" It's a male singer, and the singer appears to be Caucasian. It is apparently alternative rock, with a Death Cab/Plain White T's sound to it. I've googled the lyrics I know and Google returns no hits. Wiwaxia (talk) 07:20, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I expect that's Animal by Neon Trees Worm 09:48, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Not sure what you were trying to search on Google, but searching "I want some more what are you waiting for" brings back this song as a the first result. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 19:31, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

This is it! Thanks, guys! Apparently the "let's be friends" line was remembered wrong (it's actually "here we go again"). Wiwaxia (talk) 09:40, 24 December 2010 (UTC)