I just bought the BlackBerry Bold 9000, the latest Blackberry model after the Blackberry Storm.  Its been 2 days since I bought it and everything is fine except for the messaging function. I can’t seem to link my gmail account to my Blackberry. I already did the online registration to activate the messaging fuction with my service provider, Singtel but it still won’t work. I guess I have to go down to Singtel myself to solve this problem. I signed for another 2 year plan with Singtel so I got the Blackberry Bold for SG$539. The retail price for the Blackberry Bold 9000 is around SG$800+. Below are some pictures of me unpacking my new Blackberry Bold 9000.

Oh yeah, be bold and make the right choice. haha

I just love the packaging.

Here are all the goodies that comes with the BlackBerry Bold Smartphone

That is wicked!

This is what the startup menu looks like. You can always change the shortcuts. One thing that I really like about the Blackberry Bold is that you can personalize and change almost everything. There’s so much option that sometimes it could get overwhelming.

Oh wait..Isn’t that…my blog! I connected through Wi-Fi connection. The connection is fairly fast allowing you can do simple things like checking your emails and stuff. But don’t wish to do heavy surfing on the Blackberry cause it could get frustrating after a while since you have to zoom in to the content and the cursor is not that great.

I often show you how I spend money offline like shopping and my outings. I thougt I should share with you my spendings online. To me spending online is more dangerous than offline spending. The reason being, you don’t really see the money being spend. Its like you wake up in the morning and say to yourself, “did I really buy that $$$ last night!?, omg what was I thinking”. That’s one of the reason why you should get a debit card, not a credit card. Only spend the money you can afford to pay. Well most of my spending goes back into expanding my business online. I don’t go “shopping” online. Never done that before cause I know it’ll be addictive.

So I will just recollect what I have spent since the creation of this blog which was about a month and a half.

The first thing I bought was this wonderful blog template. It’s designed by Woothemes and the template is called THiCK. I bought it for $70 and got another template of my choice for free. You can enjoy this special offer too, buy any theme now and get another one for free. This offer won’t last long.

Now that I have a template, I need a logo. I held a contest not long ago at 99designs for my logo. I spent around $204 including the listing fee and admin fees.

As for advertising my CPA offers, I spent a total of $300. I tested Yahoo Search Marketing to see how it goes and it went pretty well. At least I didn’t lose any money trying it.

Just recently, I listed one of my website for sale and am glad to say it is sold. The winning bidder bought it for $xxxx. I won’t tell you exatcly how much yet, you’ll have to read my upcoming post to know about it. The listing fee is only $29 but the success fee is a whopping $280! Success fee means that if an auction is successful and someone buys it, we have to pay the success fee which can be split between the seller and buyer. Which I did, I paid half of the success fee, $140.  Its not a fixed $280 for all website, its based on percentage. So if your site is sold at a higher price, the higher your success fee, which is totally ridiculous for a website that just do the listing and auction. I think the’re sucking too much money for that limited service. They don’t even have an escrow service for buyer and seller. I will be telling more about the auction site in the upcoming  post.

With that, I had to carry out the transaction at Escrow. This is another $160 to waste for the service. Escrow is there so that buyer and seller do the transaction and transfer of website with ease, knowing they won’t get cheated by any party. Simply put, escrow is the third party.

Grand total, I spent US$903 in online spending. See how it just total up just by doing littile things online? Its scary isn’t it.

I have chosen the winning logo design for this blog and it goes to Design number 1! It was tough to choose since I was stuck bewteen design 1 and 5. Both looks good and suit my blog.  Made a little deal with designer 1, now I’ll be getting 2 design done by him, all thanks to him. Well I think that’s a good deal, at least I get to switch between the logo if I get bored at any of them.

I can’t wait to put it up on the header but I’ll have to wait for tomorrow cause I’m just too sleepy to do any work now. This is gonna be fun!

Design 1

Design 3