Wanted - lawyer in China to sue spammer ZXData

I guess with every success comes a dark side. Spammers from China have targeted my blog. The latest is a large series of spam attacks comes from a company called ZXData. The Whois reveals ZXData is:

Domain Name: ZXDATA.COM
Registrar: XIN NET TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Whois Server: whois.paycenter.com.cn
Referral URL: http://www.xinnet.com
Name Server: NS2.XINNET.CN
Name Server: NS2.XINNETDNS.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 18-jun-2007
Creation Date: 13-apr-2006
Expiration Date: 13-apr-2008

The key contact is:

cuijie
yichuan shanghai
shanghai Beijing 200040
CN
tel: 56528808
fax: 56528808
8112318888@sohu.com

I am willing to send a lawyer money who can do something about this. These morons are causing me so many headaches. I have even contemplated turning comment moderation on but given I am not able to get to comments fast enough, this would stiffle the interactions with this blog.

ZXData are obviously not smart nor are they particularly creative. Spamming me with links to falun gong and pornography do not impress me and will not entice me to do business with them.

I would ask that everyone who reads this and is pissed off take the time to email the person (click here to start - 8112318888@sohu.com) to tell them what they really think.

Lawyers in China - please send me proposals outlining how you can go after this spammer. They have caused me a great loss in productivity and I wish to recover it.

Buying a hot water heater? Read this first. Don't buy Rheem

I want to share a personal experience with anyone considering buying a hot water heater in North America. When my wife and I moved into our house in Vancouver, we soon found we needed a new hot water heater. After much choice, we went with a Rheem brand since it was sold to us as a high quality, North American brand with a 8 year warranty. Were we ever taken for a ride though. The warranty turned out not to be worth the paper it was printed on. While the warranty did state it was "limited", we were lead to believe by Hillcrest Plumbing that if anything happened to our hot water heater, it would be replaced within the warranty period. After all, what does warranty mean? According to Rheem, even today you are protected on parts but don't be fooled. They are unscrupulous and are lying to you.

Our water heater let go and we had to call Hillcrest during off hours. They told us that Rheem and Hillcrest are no longer honoring their written warranties and due to a change in design and rules , would not be able to honor their warranty on parts. WFT??? This is a clear case of a large multi national company imposing a unilateral change on a contract due to their own lack of foresight. We, the people are being ripped off.

My advice:

1. Do not believe anything Rheem promises in terms of warranty. They lied to us and did not honor their own written warranty. This website could just as easily be lying.

2. I will also never do business with Hillcrest Plumbing again. I urge you to consider this when looking for a plumber. Get references from any plumber. By contrast, there are lots of reputable firms like Roto Rooter and others who have never ripped us off.

3. Rheem Canada also seems to handle the Ruud brand. Be wary.

4. If you are a contractor looking for a line of water heaters/holding tanks
to carry and install, consider how your customers will feel about you if this happens to them. It will cost you money if too many people experience lies like this.

If you are one of the 10,000 people who read this blog every month, please pass this on to others in North America.