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I’m so traumatized by the fact that my US$5 is taken away from me through this GoDaddy auto renewal service. It is of a service I don’t want and I did not know it was auto renewed till when it was auto renewed minutes ago. Oh that’s so great.

Parting with my 5 bucks - the worst day of my life. I don’t remember setting it to auto renew. I guess it’s in this labyrinth of checkboxes that I did not notice. They like to put a bunch of bright graphics and that always distracts me from the form controls, i.e. the check boxes and radio buttons.

You know this GoDaddy is reputed for all the wrong ways. I haven’t heard good stories except that they have pretty good Super Bowl advertisements sometimes. That asides, GoDaddy as a online company is poor. The web site is slow. The support is slow.

When requesting for email support it says the expected time to revert to me was 3 hours on the website. It’s just for show. After I reported ‘the incident’, they send me an email immediately:

Your question has been received. You should expect a response within 24 hours.

This is your Incident ID: BLAHBLAH

Thanks,
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Please do not reply to this email. Emails sent to this address will not be answered.

You should never ever ever tell your customers not to reply an email unless it’s a bloody newsletter and the mailing software did not support it. Okay, happy thoughts, happy thoughts.

Okay, if you’re going to be easily offended, you’ll have to skip the following video.

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In a rushed bid to ride out the storm sweeping American finance, 94-year-old Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed late Sunday to sell itself to Bank of America Corp. for roughly $44 billion. (Source: WSJ)

Okay, erm… So now Bank of America is going to be really huge. And they can’t fail, can they?

Wish to have a $100 billion? Now you can - in Zimbabwe notes. Gets you 4 delicious oranges.

Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion banknotes

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwe’s troubled central bank introduced new $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy.

The new bills officially come into circulation Monday, although they were already on the foreign currency dealers market Saturday.

As high as they are, though, the new bills still aren’t enough to buy a loaf of bread. They can only buy four oranges.

The new note is equal to just one U.S. dollar. (Source: CNN)

This morning, I met up with a friend to sign some sort of a lump sum investment policy where I placed this sum of money and praying hard for returns of maybe about 4 to 12%. Even if I don’t earn, it’s fine, so long as the ask-bid price is nicely covered up. The worst thing that code happen is lost of money.

I came back home and saw Tian Hong mentioning of some sort of an investment fraud with a certain investment company. (You could head over to his blog to learn more.) I got a little uncomfortable and wondered if I made the right choice.

I think lump sum short term investments are good generally. There’s a certain amount of risk of course. I signed up with a friend too. She’s working for an insurance company that’s quite reputable. I just hope that everything goes right.

Don’t intend to invest for long, probably about 3 years only.

Oh no, the US economy is apparently not doing well. Starbucks closing 600 stores. US is about Starbucks right?

Starbucks closing 600 underperforming stores in the United States

SEATTLE (AP) — Starbucks Corp. has announced it’s closing 600 underperforming stores in the United States.

The Seattle-based premium coffee company also announced Tuesday it expects to open fewer than 200 new company-operated stores in the United States in fiscal 2009.

The company says it will try to place workers from closed stores in remaining Starbucks. (Source: Yahoo)

With the US dollar dropping and the local dollar appreciating, it’s even harder to get a decent earning from US cheques. It probably is a good time to buy into foreign markets, taking advantage of the good rise in local dollar. Not the US market though.