Great Deals and Wiiiii!

It's been a while, I guess I've been too busy playing the Wii and also my wallet is shrinking from all the great deals lately. The Google Checkout is soooo hot! :)

Wii Sports, Zelda are great. Controls, graphics, very happy.

Red Steel was a bit disappointing. I thought the sword fights would be so fun and it is, but the controls are very very difficult. After playing a hour, I still can't get use to it.



Look what we got from Costco!

Please remove the Playstation 3 ad for Costco. Sold out and too many people are still trying to buy despite that which is causing Costco's site to fail and not load. People are coming to spoofee for the information and spoofee is a great site for good deals and info but now this ad is causing too many problems for our website. Thanks.

Costco Customer Representive
Steve

We're glad we have so many users that Costco has to email us! =)

Wii / PS3 Craze

I'm at Toys R Us right now in the cold waiting to get a Wii pre-order. Freezing, lonely, and dark. Let me think back to how I got myself into this mess.

Wii and the PS3 is releasing in a week.

Today..rrr yesterday, I stopped by Toys R Us to buy Guitar Hero 2 for PS2 and for the heck of it asked if they are planning to open at 12am on 11/19 for Wii, and the worker told me they will be taking 20 pre-orders tomorrow, but advised lining up early.

First I thought, ok 7am, then 6am to be safe.. and then I read articles where people were waiting 1pm the day before.. so I came here at 3am.

I think I forgot what the Wii was for me. I think the demand made me want it more. I just know everyone wants it.. so I want it.

I remember lining up like this for Furby several years back.

Bungee rockets have arrived!

Click here to find out how to get one!

Thank you cierrablue!

I was just browsing youtube and found this! Thank you so much!

Traffic Ticket

So I got a ticket like 2 months ago for driving in the carpool lane + expired registration sticker, and I finally took care of it.

I read on ticketassassin.com how it's good to always request a trial by written declaration. This is because the police officer does not get paid to write a report against you and if the police officer does not respond, you automatically win the case.

Side Note : If you request a in-person trial, police officers do usually get paid for this, so there is a good chance they would show up.



So today I marched to the clerk and requested for a trial by written dection (yes that's how I said it).. I think I just had that line in my head for a long time, when I actually said it, I got nervous.

She told me how, if I do a trial and I lose (if the police officer responds), I will not have the option to go to traffic school and there will be a point on my record making my insurance rate higher.

SO... I called my insurance company to find out how much more insurance would be, if it's worth gambling, etc.

these were my options.

If I just paid the ticket
- I pay $399 + $15(fix it ticket) + $30(traffic school) + traffic school = $444

If I had a trial and won (I win if police office doesn't respond)
- I pay $15(fix it ticket) = $15

If I had a trial and lost (I would lose if police officer responded)
- I pay $399 + $15(fix it ticket) + $100 extra/year for insurance = $714

It was a difficult choice. I was not sure if my police officer would be lazy. I asked the clerk if police officers usually respond and she said.. 'It's probably 50/50'.. and I debated if I want to gamble $270... My police officer seemed pretty sharp and I thought he would actually respond so I just took the damage of $444. :(

That's like a nice digital camera. That's like a Xbox 360.. :(

I have to move on... :(

Spoofee Bungee Rockets Coming Soon...

I'm not sure what we're going to use these for, but just ordered 1000 bungee rockets.

Youtube on Forums

We had to remove html posting capabilities from our forums, but we brought a new [youtube] button so people can continue to post videos

Link to Instructions

Congratulations to ChoochooJr and Babuska

Choochoojr has been a long time member of Spoofee and met Babuska.

Look what it led up to!

Truly happy for these two.

I also wish Blogger had a spellchecker.

Spoofee Hack Attempts

Looks like some people have nothing to do during the Labor Day Weekend other than to find vulnerabilities and hack sites.

There were multiple attempts and the main 2 issues are fixed.

Thank you everyone for the notification and thanks Choochoojr/Kage_ for paging me :)

Security holes were caused vBulletin mods (FlashChat / Top X ).
Both have been disabled and we'll keep an eye on vBulletin.com to see if any other vulnerabilities are found.

Tell a Friend Button

Minor little addition to the deals page.

There is now a "tell a friend" button so you can let your peers know about a hot deal.
I also gave it a minor look & feel change, but I'm not sure whether it's easier to see. Needs a lot of work.

My iPod Nano

I recently got an iPod Nano. I met this lady from Craigslist selling it for a decent price and I asked if there were any engravings and she told me how her daughter got it and it's brand new..

I give her the money, come home and open it.. it has "Genentech 2005" engraved on the back.

So anyways, I head on over to the Apple store to buy some accessories to protect the nano.
First I wanted the Lanyard, but at $40.. I thought I would rather buy a nice Sony earphone for that price.


So I go look for that little sock to just protect the Nano from scratches


It's $30! Well, you get 6 socks so it's more like $5/sock but COME ON! Even I don't get socks that expensive for my own feet.

I came home empty handed hoping Amazon would have them cheaper and they do but only by a few bucks :(

Good Deal or Evil?

I had the late night munchies so I drove over to safeway and picked up a drink / sandwich.
The sandwich was $3.99 and the drink was 89 cents. It rang up 95 cents.
Then I was faced with this "should I tell him about the mistake or should I feel lucky"

My dad always used to talk to me about being honest in this situation and I always have been. I can remember at least two times where the cash register gave me $10 extra change, and I gave it back..

but today.. I just let it by...

I felt totally fine about it until I wrote this blog.. now I'm feeling I wish I paid $3.99 for this sandwich. Arg..

Spoofee Made it on ABC 15 News!

Thanks to everyone for their contributions!

They mentioned how there are freebies posted from members, shows the weekly ads, the coupon section and even zooms in on the funny looking manitee.

Thank you very much guys and gals!

Link to Video / Article

Spoofee Graffti Board

Tell everyone why you like Spoofee! No sign up needed - Link here

Santana Row

One tourist area near me is Santana Row. It's a pretty area with unique restaurants / stores. On the expensive side and pretty lively at night. Let me show you around just a little bit.

This is the only hotelon Santana Row, at night there's always a line to get in the club and there are ALWAYS expensive shiny cars parked out in front.

Every Sunday, they have a farmer's market! The strawberres are the best.

Some of the unique restaurants I said earlier


It's very lively with live music and people playing chess or dancing around in the middle.

All the wasted Kettle Korn on the ground =(


Deal Tip : Wait until the farmer's market is about to close (3pm), they will give you great deal!

We got
2lbs of grapes for $2
Kettle Korn Value Pack for $7
2lbs of organic strawberries for $7
3 Corns for $1

Searching Car for Scoopons

So I heard that Scoopons is looking for a car so I go to help today.

Scoopons is looking for a car that is under $20k and reliable, fun, useful.

We first head to Scion, I keep saying how it's for a younger crowd, but Scoopons has a strange attachent to it. I personally felt the xB was pretty cool. Spacious and looks like fun to cruise in.

My favorite quote from the dealer was "Well.. the thing about Scion is that.. we give free test drives.. that's the thing"

Then we went to Honda to checkout their Element. We were sold. Looked like fun, very useful and wow, the space in the backseat. The price was a little passed $20k, but I'm sure we could find it used for lower.

We stopped by/drove by some other places, but nothing interesting

For the heck of it, we stopped by BMW. Wow.. some day.. some day....
Everything looked nice, but I fell in love with this one car.. labeled M5. So I take a look at the price.. $90k+.. no thank you.

This is a M6.

Visiting Mozilla

One guy I worked with from Mozilla yesterday asked for my shirt size... ALRIGHT FREE SHIRT! I love FREE SHIRTS. We couldn't pick a time that was convenient so I just invited myself to Mozilla to pick up the free shirt. I was a bit hyped since ... it's MOZILLA. I was wondering what kind of campus they have, etc.

I thought it would be nice to get him a little something from Google so I asked our secretary and front desk for freebies. I wanted to keep the shirt for myself =P

So it turns out they were REALLY close by. So I just grabbed one of our scooters and headed there. It was a small office, but the environment inside was very dot comy. Not like I know what is the dot com lifestyle, but if everyone says Google is dot com lifestyle, so is Mozilla. Pool table, bean bags, a lot of snacks. They were having a meeting about Firefox 2!

Anyhow, I have a small friendly chitchat.. introduction with the guy and got my free shirt and stickers. Saw this on the way out.. apparently it's made by the CEO.

Thanks Mozilla! I'll slap the sticker somewhere on my computer.

First Production Change on Google

I got to make my very first production change on Google!

I only got to touch internal tools or backend goodies until now!
So small, but still makes me proud =*)

The startpage for Firefox, the bottom portion, I got to switch it out with a promo for World Firefox Day.

Emmigrant Direct sent a Free Hat

If you have money sitting in your Bofa/Wells Fargo/etc. please put it into one of these

I just opened an EmigrantDirect account and they sent me a free hat!

Seeing the difference...

There is supposedly this area near me called Los Gatos that supposedly only have rich people living in. I heard Tom Cruise and many founders of companies live there.

I really never cared, but yesterday I drove through there and my jaw dropped! Many homes were like the home from Monte Cristo. It's one of those home where there is a gate way up front and there is a huge house somewhere inside the gate.

Btw : Monte Cristo is one of my favorite movies. If you have not watched it, I highly recommend it.

I thought to myself "someday... someday..." and today I sat at my table and started to look through homes in Los Gatos and tried to plan how many years it would take. So.. they are around $3 million.

okay nevermind then.

Little Feature for Advertisers

A few advertisers on Spoofee asked for how well their ads performed.

So I added a feature so Spoofee.com will automatically email the advertisers when their ad is about to end with how well their ads performed ( how many clicks )

Free Umbrella from GM, etc.

Wow! The GM free umbrella really came!
If you ordered one and didn't get it, you may be in the same shoes as JerryP


At work, I get this email thanking me for referring a friend and to come pickup a gift.

a 2006 Google calendar. I was happy, but it seemed like a left over from a Google China promotion. The writings were all in chinese and the year is half over. =[

Stopped by Express for Men because I had a 20% off coupon and found these for $4.99

Wow! and these are so much more comfortable than the Banana Republic $40 slippers. SOOO much more comfortable. So squooshy and perfect fit. I guess higher price does not mean better.

My sister is going off to college in New York and has always been wanting a digital camera. I saw the deal on the SD600 and decided to buy it for her for her going away gift and all the birthdays I missed on her.

This camera was sooo nice! The LCD on the back of the camera was soo big and just everything seemed smooth and cleaner. I was actually thinking of keeping the camera for myself and giving my old one to my sister at first.

37 Albertsons Closing

I got a call from a friend telling me Albertsons going out of business and I almost blew food out of my mouth. I love Albertsons and there is an Albertsons near me that keeps their fruit/vegetable section beautiful.

So after further research, it turns out only 37 stores are closing and those stores are having a clearance sale. I went to one today, they really don't have much left, but it's kinda fun. Like a treasure hunt. The coolest thing I found was a cold medicine.

Spoofee for Mobile!

So many talk lately about Mobile software, and I thought... wouldn't people want to check for hot deals from their phone/mobile device?

So here it is! Try going to spoofee.com from your mobile device :)
Feel free to send me comments at webmaster@erasethis.spoofee.com

Random blabbing

It has been a while since I updated. I think it's the heat in California, workload at Google, and Warcraft.

Let's start with a sad news

Yes, someone has gone to every Honda/Acura/Lexus car in our neighborhood and ripped off our emblems. =( My Acura emblem is not just gone, but they/he/she carved the paint =( Arg.

I always go to Famous Footwear and only buy footwear when they have something like, buy 1, get 2nd half off. I also only buy shoes like once a year, so I thought maybe it's time to grow out of them. I tried $40 slippers from Banana Republic.

They are VERY uncomfortable. I'd go with Nike sandals.

At Google, they have Smart Water. What's special about them? They supposedly have electrolytes in them. I really like their design! The most left bottle is what Google gives and the two right ones are store bought atAlbertsons.


Do you know know what this is? Yes, it's the Razor which was on sale at Target. It's great to get around the office and kind of dangerous to play with outdoors.. almost flew off because of a bump on the road :(

Deal is still going and can be found here

And I also got this free coffee maker from this deal. Very sexy


I debated for a while if I should get this laptop or not. It was a great deal, but it was a HP... I mean, it's always been a battle between Dell and IBM right? But once I opened the box, I was totally impressed. I'm very happy! For $594.99, I'm enjoying it... a lot.


Let's end with sad news.

I... got my first traffic violatio ticket. =( I was late for a dentist appointment so I drove a little bit on the carpool lane. Arg... I heard the ticket is around $300 for these.. Hurts. I might try this ticketassassin.com.

Late night munchies

It's almost 2:30am on a Sunday night.. rrr Monday morning.
I just don't want to go to sleep yet, because as soon as I sleep, my weekend is over and it's work time.

Got hungry so stopped by Jack in the Box. $4.19 for 4 chicken strips. Quite expensive?

Price Increase on the side 125x125 Banner

The 125x125 banner on the side of the page was only $10/month.
Extremely cheap.

Spoofee was starting to look like another ugly page with a bunch of flashy banners, so I raised the price to $30/month.

Still cheap =P, but this should keep things in control.

Incident at Fry's Electronics

It was very hot.. I think it actually reached 107 degrees in the bay area.

Everywhere was sold out of ACs, except Fry's. They had a unit that was $499, but I just had to get it.

After I got it, the weather cooled down. It was no longer hot. I decided I only used it once, I'd probably never use it this summer so I went to go return it at Fry's.

The girl told me "no returns on Air Conditioners"

but the receipt clearly stated "Appliances such as ..., air conditioners, ... can be returned up to 15 days after purchase"

She brought out the manager and he stated the same "no returns on Air Conditioners"

I hate to be one of those customers that argue, but this was for $499 + tax!.. I had to!

I asked "so how do you explain what's written on the receipt?"

Once again the manager said "no returns on Air Conditioners, everyone is returning them"

Another sales rep started talking to me saying things like "why?! it's going to get hotter you will see!"

I said that I would take store credit if it makes things easier for him and... long story short, I was able to get the return in store credit form. I thanked him in the end, but he ignored me =(

Ridiculous or Reasonable?

I grew up in North California and would like to stay in this area. Unfortunately.. the real estate is extremely expensive here. :(

I saw a new community coming up and on sale. It said "Townhomes" so I went to go take a look.

Stopped by and asked what's open and the cost.
There was a 3 bedroom / 1150 sqft for $750,000 which I thought was not too bad (yea.. isn't it nuts). After looking into units on their map, they were all connected and sharing garages, etc. like a condo, not a townhouse.

So I asked if it's a condo or townhouse and the reply I got was "it's a townhouse style condo" I just blurted out "it's $750k for a condo?!" and the realtor replied "of course it's CUPATINO. GOod educatioN!" I was also told HOA is $450/month. Quite high so I asked if I get a pool or gym and the answer was no, but I do get insurance and I can use the pool across the street.

=( Seeing from one way, it's totally stupid I'm even considering to pay this much for a space in the air. But I felt this way 2 years ago when I was considering a 1 bdrm condo for $350k. That same condo is now worth $500k.

It feels like the longer we (renters) wait, we lose out.

I spend a lot of time saving $5-50 here and there..., but I feel like I'm being ripped off $200-300,000 on real estate. It's frustrating.

Coinstar Offering Gift Certificates

After read this post by SharonL

I got my bucket of change and headed to a Coinstar machine.



Yes, it's a CD-R 100 pack spindle cover used as a coin jar.



The coinstar machine.



$77.79! Wow! and of course I chose an Amazon gift card. Always shop there so good as cash!
and many many left over Golf Land / D&B / some asian coins came out of the coin jar. rr. spindle.

Thanks SharonL!