Costco is coming to Australia
One of my favourite tv show is the “Current Affair” which is shown at 6.30 pm monday to friday. On Current Affair yesterday show, they mention about the Big Discount supermarket Costco which will soon open their shop in australia. First opened in the 1970s in San Diego as a price club, this retail giant has grown from a warehouse style outlet store for members only to a hugely-popular cost-saving brand. To see how much you can save if you shop in Costco here are just a few sample item from the US store, converted into Australian dollars.
Make money with Adsdaq
I just sign up with adsdaq.com, a new publisher program where you can set your own CPM price for your website. There is no cost to participate on this program. Publishers name their Asked Price and if ADSDAQ can meet that price you get paid 100% of your Asked Price. For you guys who don’t know what is CPM, here is the definition of CPM: CPM stands for cost per 1000 impressions.
The good thing about ads which paid by CPM is regardless of whether or not that ad is clicked by the end user you will still get paid, because you get paid based on per impression. This kind of advertising program is suitable for a websites which get a lot of impressions.
You can also setup backup tag code, which is will be used in case adsdaq can’t sell that ad space for you. this might be because you set up your CPM price too high. The admin section including the report section is pretty good in my opinion. But i cant really tell yet how is the ads perform in my website. I will post again once i got the statistics report.
Surabaya.com sold for us$50000
I just read one news about selling and buying domain name business, and i’m quite surprise when i saw that surabaya.com was sold for us$50000. Surabaya is the name of city in east Java, Indonesia. And its the city where i grow up before i move to sydney , australia. I have no idea who is the owner and who bought it for that price, and what they gonna do with the domain name. I tried to search in google, but cant find more detail information there. the reason why this domain can be sold for us$5000 is maybe because this word “surabaya” means something else in other language, because i’m doubt if the buyer is indonesian, because us$50000 is pretty big money if you convert it to rupiah(indonesian money currency). Anyone got more detail about this?
Samsung Side by side Fridge SR538NP
Last weekend, I went to several big electronic shops such as myer, harvey norman, and bing lee to have a look at some fridge / refrigerator. I find out that they actually can give you as low as $300 price less then the retail price. So i recommend you to always ask for discount, because they do give discount most of the time if you ask, and especially if you pay by cash. For example, i was looking at the LG side by side refrigerator, i cant really remember what exactly is the model, but it looks very cool with stainless steel body. The Myer sales staff approach me while i was standing there in front of this cool LG fridge, then i ask him if there is any special price he can give me. The retail price is around $1800, and he said he can give me around $1500 plus delivery fee around $60. You see now what i mean by always ask if they can give you special price, because if you never ask, you will never know if you can save a couple thousands just by asking simple question.
Unfortunately, the LG side by side fridge is too big to fit in my new place, so i have to find other models which is smaller. The only manufacture which have around 85mm width is Samsung. This remind me to the book i read last year “blue ocean strategy” about adding a unique feature to your product to get rid the competition. And its exactly what Samsung do in this case. Because no other manufacture are playing in this 85mm width side by side fridge then that means No competition at all there. I’m pretty sure, Samsung sell quite a lot of this SRS538NP samsung fridge. Very smart idea indeed.
OK, back again to the samsung SRS538NP refrigerator, the retail price is au$1899, and after doing some research on internet, i find out actually there is one online shop selling appliances stuff cheaper compared to myer, harvey norman, or even bing lee. I have compared around 5 stuffs which i quote from the shop, and all the price at www.appliancesonline.com.au is still cheaper. Appliancesonline.com.au also offer free delivery if you live in NSW. the SRS 538NP Samsung fridge is sell for $1583 at appliancesonline, and as fas as i know, is the cheapest price. I might order from the very soon, to try how is their service, and will post it again here once i get the fridge from them.
TPG or WestNet for my ADSL2+ connection?
A couple days ago i called my ADSL Provider, Westnet customer support, to let them know that i would like to disconnect my adsl connection. Because by next month i will move out already to my new place. The price I pay at the moment for the ADSL is around $54.95/mth under Everyday Plan (512k/128k - 5GB peak /7GB offpeak), and i just checked my usage in average is less than 3GB/month. Not as much as i predict because i don’t really download movie or song from internet. Maybe i should find cheaper plan with lower bandwidth so i can save a bit money there. The thing i want to mention here is actually, i’ve been with westnet for 3 years, and i’m very satisfied with their service. the only downside is the price is a bit more expensive compared to the others, and also i notice one thing after i called them to arrange the disconnection of my ADSL by next month, i feel that my internet connection has been slowed down. I’m not sure 100%, but yesterday i tested to download 15mb file, and it took 5 minutes.
Once i move to new place, for sure i will sign up for the ADSL2+, not the ADSL anymore because the price is actually pretty much the same, but offering faster connection. I’m actually thinking about sign up with TPG ADSL2+ Medium/25GB plan, with download quaota of 25GB* (18GB peak+7GB offpeak), only cost $49.99/mth, it give me much more download quota compared to westnet $49.94/mth, only give 5gb peak/7gb offpeak. But i’m not really sure about the quality of TPG though. If any of you are using TPG, please give me a bit feedback here or is there any better suggestion for ADSL2+ provider?