Fadi El-Eter

Note: This post applies to Canada and the United States. I don't know about the rest of the world. I have signed a lease on a brand new car yesterday (note: the brand is not Toyota), I thought I was getting a pretty good deal on the car. However, when...

If you're shopping for a car, then I'm sure that the first thing you'll notice is that car companies try their best to get you on a lease contract. You can clearly notice, from their conversation, that they would rather prefer if you lease the car rather...

If you own IBM stocks (NYSE:IBM), you must have noticed that the stock is down so far 1.23% this year, while the aggregate index of technology stocks went up 1.1% during the same period. You might not think that this is huge, but it is, since IBM has been...

Everywhere I go and everywhere I look, I see low work ethics or no work ethics. I'll list some examples that I've seen in real life: A customer care representative yelling at a client, in front of other clients, in a mobile shop. A programmer...

If you read the title of this post in horror, then let me ask you a question. How much would you expect to get paid for doing the following: Physically picking a mail from a rural place in Canada. Of course, there's a huge possibility that that mail is...

If you have ever tried doing a wire transfer from outside Canada to a Canadian bank, then you have probably smiled after reading the title of this post. It's a weird experience that may or may not work from the first 5 tries, especially if you're...

If you're using PayPal, then you should know by now that they are, by far, the best payment processor out there, simply because their discount rate is very reasonable and you don't need to pay merchant fees for their non-API model. Not only that,...

Try traveling from any airport in the world and you'll feel like Alice in Wonderland after drinking the shrinking potion: everything is bigger at the airport, much bigger. You find huge TicTacs, Toblerones (I have no idea why Toblerones are very...

After a few months of absence, I am going back to writing on my blog. Since I am actively looking for a car, I did a research to find what are the top 10 car makers in Canada. Here they are (each Car Maker is followed by the percentage of cars sold with...

The number of public companies that are extremely overvalued and hyped is huge, but, it's very rare to see a public company that hasn't sold anything yet (and may never will) with a stock that's up 450% (yes, that's 4.5 folds) in one year. That company is...