Sent our offer for property

The list price of property in Vegas we want to buy is $1.5 million. It was actually $2 million, but they recently lowered to $1.5 million. We just offered them $1 million. Let's wait and see how they respond.

Starting a business in Las Vegas

At this point, I can't really tell much detail, but my family and I are getting ready to start our new business in Las Vegas. Bad economy is a great opportunity. Now is the great opportunity to start a new business. We are currently in process for borrowing money from the bank around $2 million. 2 days ago, we drove to Vegas to initiate the negotiation of warehouse we need to purchase. Since property owner has not been able to sell this property for over 2 years, I hope he is desperate enough, so we can bring down the price to our target.

As we make a progress, I'll post undated info here.

Commission Junction account terminated

I am so pissed off!!! My Commission Junction (CJ) account got terminated recently. For those who doesn't know CJ, it is one of major affiliate networks. You sign up, choose an adviser or product, place a banner/link on your website, then you earn a commission once you have a lead/sale. Anyway, I didn't do anything to break their Term of Use. All of sedden, they just terminated my account without any reason. I tried to contact so many times to find why. All they tell me is their Terms of Use, which you have to agree when you sign up, states CJ has the right terminate any account for any reason. I repeatedly asked them to reinstate my account but so far unsuccessful. I still have the commission I earned in my account. I wonder if they are still going to pay me.

I already filed a complaint with BBB. As expected, since BBB is practically useless, it didn't help my at all. CJ did replay to my complaint. They stated that I used some "illegal" software to generate leads and I provided false information. Of course that is total BS. Even though the money they owe me is a small amount, I am not going to stop at BBB. This is no longer about the money for me. Next is I am going to try California Attorney General.

After I quickly searched via google, I found other people who had similar experience with CJ in the last few months. In 2007, CJ faced class action lawsuit for shady business practices like cover up and possible commission thief. If there are enough people, I am considering of new lawsuit.

If you had semilar experience and wish to join the possible lawsuit, please email me at: sitti01@live.com

Received replacement hard drives

What a surprise. I just received my replacement hard drives in only 1 day. No, WD didn't ship via overnight. It was shipped via UPS Ground. It was sent from Riverside, CA, which is about 40 minutes from my home. And there is one more surprise. What WD sent me was not 2 150GB Raptors. They sent me 2 300GB VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS!!!! It is like I got free upgrade. My 300GB RAID-0 just became 600GB and faster:-)

WD tech support

I was not expecing any thing good from any tech support these days, but supprisingly I had quite a good experience. They accepted my advanced RMA without asking too many question or telling me to try this and try that. They only asked the serial numbers, reason: broken hard drive, and credit card number. My credit card will be charged if I don't return broken hard drive to them in 30 days. I was told my replacement hard drives will be shipped today and I'll receive it in 3 to 5 business days. Hopefully I receive them by this Friday. I want to reinstall everything over the weekend.

Broken Raptor Hard Drives

My desktop has been acting quite weird for about a week. Sudden BSOD, freeze, and massive performance drop. Took me a while to find out the problem. The problem was I have 2 hard drives that are about to die. My hard drive configuration is Intel ICH9R Raid 0 with 2x WD 150GB Raptor (WD1500AHFD) hard drives. I wasted so many hours hours of my time checking motherboard and testing overclocked CPU, RAM, and GPU. Since I striped the hard drives I didn't get any warning from SMART. I run WD diagnostic tool Lifeguard on both hard drives. Both of them failed. I got error code: 0007 and code: 0101 on one drive. The other drive is no longer recognizable. What are the odds of getting 2 hard drives failing nearly at the same time...

I am going to call WD tech in the morning to get RMA. Glad it comes with 5 year warranty.

Bought new Lexus LS460L and Infiniti QX56

We just came home with our new Lexus LS460L. I also bought new 2011 Infiniti QX56.

That's right, just bought 2 new cars!!! Weeeee!!!!

I will post picutres of both cars.