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Here's A Credit Card With A 79% Interest Rate
79.9 because they dont want you to think 80. 80% now THAT would be ridiculous.
Tapwater Catches Fire After Natural Gas Drillers Move In
@DoktorGoku: That is no simple moustache but rather a force of nature that needs its own channel to monitor it 24 hours a day.
Tapwater Catches Fire After Natural Gas Drillers Move In
Fire Water out of the tap?
It's a giant hit at AA meetings.
or
Does this mean women can cook with the faucet now?
It was hard for me to decide.
Czar Tells AIG Not To Hand Out As Many Bazillions More In Bonuses Come March
@mythago: Seriously. How can you guys not see the difference in the government handling a company they bailed out billions for and a company that has never needed federal money?
I don't the government making business decisions but these circumstances warrant different measures.
Czar Tells AIG Not To Hand Out As Many Bazillions More In Bonuses Come March
@srh: Have you been asleep for a year and a half? Or are you just really, really good at holding your fingers in your ears and screaming. "NANANANANA?
Top Posts Of The Week And Open Thread
@squinko - is pretending there's a star: Captured! by Robots is such an awesome concept act. I've seen him twice and both times brought people who've never heard of him. And they loved it. Hard not to.
Reach T-Mobile Executive Customer Relations
@dragonfire81: I know everything is relative with phone coverage and everyone has bad experiences with every carrier but my time with T-Mobile has been bad. They really do have awesome customer service but coverage has been terible. All over, in all types of weather I am never more then one full bar. I've had multiple phones too. My contract ends this month and I am so happy to be on my way.
I'm thinking probably Verizon. With cells I will sacrifice a little on the customer service front if it means I can actually make a phone call when I need to.
FBI Charges 100 People In Phishing Investigation
When we get them in Phederal court they will be wishing they didn't phuck with our Phreedom!
The Pheds really Phlipped them the bird phinally.
and on and on and on.....
Announcing The First Consumerist Meetup
I would be all about an Atlanta meet-up. ATL could use a consumer protection presence like it could use a Pepsi.











Here's A Credit Card With A 79% Interest Rate
@DoubleEcho: I hadn't considered that but it does make a lot of sense. Most people fill out these "Specialty cards" or whatever you want to call them very quickly and most of the time would just quickly glance.
My wife used to work at a Macy's and they made her push their cards. She said people would sign their name without even looking at anything in the form, just grab, signature, done. Crazy. Who could have imagined a credit issue, my ass.