Hello My Friend, What a great question. If I could change Xanga, I would add the ability for people to advertise their work for a most nominal fee; Say ten dollars per year, not the Xanga sites that are just advertisements; In fact, one rule would be they would absolutely have to be Xanga members actively participating in discussion and activity which goes on through out the yea on Xanga. A, for instance, is that someone like me with a brain dead for big advertising could have a box under their site to do comment advertising for that ten bucks, and it would be limited to about 400 words, could change from month to month, but then one would not have to feel embarrassed to go to fellow Xangans and to say; I have a book out there; It is well worth your reading which I now do with my book, "Pinkhoneysuckle." Others out there might have something as simple as, The Super Espresso Maker Aunt Lillian Gave To Me For Christmas, and for a set price, it is yourse," and then in the box provided by Xanga, you could place a checkmark and discontinue that item, and the truth is the half price you might get for that espresso machine would help you pay for the add, get out, or stay in. Disingenuous people always flock to sites with sales, thus that is why one would have to have some waiting time before they get their little box, and they would have to validate that they are a Xanga blogger by blogging, and would only get their box six months after faithful blogging.

This is my big idea, that it would be sort of like our own personal little garage sale with no haggling over price, and I would limit payment to PayPal or to personal check. A disingenuous person selling a product that did not meet its description or that was garbage should be immediately removed from their privilege of advertising as well as be permanently removed from Xanga. Pictures of an item going or coming in dispute would be for reference, and the same item being sold again and again unless it is something in your life everyday like a craft item or a book could not appear again once the item is sold.

Those not interested in their advertising place could check that, but to my knowledge; no other such service or privilege is offered on the interned. There would, of course, be a place to check all such options as to use or not to use the service. to cancel at the end of any given month, to simply add that you have no interest, so you would get no sale's box. I am suggesting that it would be a fun thing for Xangans, cheap advertising, and a novel idea to have our own place to sell something, buyer beware, seller beware, but buying from Xanga friends would be more personal than most of our internet purchasing. It is just an idea folks. Thank you.
Barbara Everett Heintz, "Pinkhoneysuckle" Author -- A sweet name for a novel of fiction, history, dark humor, - The murder of Agarian mid-south along with the conflict of religion, povery, devestation of women and children before the author could see some light easing into her life, with the hope that thousands of women, children, and broken men could crawl out of the despair as she did from mid-century in to the 1970s with echos still being heard now of a lost people. "Pinkhoneysuckle," Barbara Everett Heintz -- Just read the free material on Amazon if these words have marked your curiosity about America's back roads and shame. Thank you,
Barbara Everett Heintz - I would gladly give Xanga ten dollars a year for a small place to advertise this book rather than to feel really bad that I even mention my book to all of you. Did anyone get the super duper espresso machine I wanted for Christmas that makes cold and hot brewed coffee; A hundred dollars would buy it? Sold, but do not mention it to Aunt Lillian who works at Macys and got you the very best model on the floor. Am I getting my point across?
Thanks, Barb

Let us face a fact, that Xanga could use the revenue; Some of us would enjoy this very informal way of passing merchandise on, and Xanga leaving all details between the buyer and seller in dispute cases can just throw up their hands with an; "It's not my problem." I would venture to call it one's Xanga garange sale box; Use it at your discretion once you have shown that you are a Xanga contributor, and advertising at ten dollars a year is incentive enough to hit the cancel advertising once you know your Xanga friends just are not interested in what you have to sell.