Ya, because it couldn't possibly be that maybe the factory that uses BPA is also a crappier place to work than the non-BPA using factory, and the stress leads to ED. There are more pigeons in Venice now than when it was built, and the city is sinking now: the expanded pigeon population must be causing the city to sink.

This is the worst kind of science, with no controls and very faulty cause and effect logic. Even Dr. Sokol, the study director agrees:

""It's not cause and effect, but when you have the kind of ambient air quality assessment that they made, it comes pretty close to cause and effect."

Pretty close? This isn't f#@%ing horseshoes, this is peoples' lives. You need to get it right before you start publicly conjecturing.

Notice this isn't a news report based on a recent published peer-reviewed article. This is just this doctor spewing out some preliminary results and trying to gain media attention, and CNN happily obliging.

There may or may not be a problem with BPA, but this kind of fear-mongering media-whoring bad science is not going to help us find out.

@pecan 3.14159265: Ok, suppose I paid an assembly fee for a bike. Maybe it wasn't quite put together by the time I checked out at the register and paid the fee. The point is, once I pay the fee, I expect the bike to be put together. They can't up the fee later. It's the same here: once the website calculated the final price (with tax, shipping, fees, etc) and it was paid for, that's it, sale made. They can't just start adding on fees later, especially without prior authorization.

@twophrasebark: "LOL" before the disemvoweling

It makes me wonder what type of contract is being made when you click the "Confirm Order" or equivalent button. If you bought something at the Target store, and the receipt checker tried to shake you down for an extra $5 on the way out, I'm pretty sure that would violate some kind of law. *Maybe* they could cancel the order outright, but if they just charge $5 to your card without prior authorization, I'm pretty sure that's just plain theft.

@tereckkincaid: Er, and by that I mean, that the customers offer to pay the money, not necessarily that Amazon doesn't shake them down for it.

It's somewhat heartwarming that Amazon seems to have sent a form letter for this: it must happen more often than you would think.

If they just cleaned up their current models, that would be good enough for me.

So let me get this straight. From the random recipient's point of view, someone claiming to be from a bank sends him a random email full of account info, something that seems impossible. Then they contact me and say they want to "discuss" it with me. If this hadn't been on the news, I would probably think it's some Nigerian scam and wouldn't reply. I wouldn't expect that random recipient to, either.

And forcing a company to invade a customer's privacy because you made a typo? I hope the courts don't touch that can of worms with a 10 foot pole. The bank has to suck it up and treat the breach like it's a worst case scenario, and not hassle someone else because of their mistake.

@chiieddy:

I've got the same; I'm i PA. The first year we did it, it was totally free. Then came $60, now $60 + 5. And yes, we're opting out.

I have a Citizens checking and savings account, and they sent the letter about this back in July. When we signed up 2 years ago, they told us we could link our checking account to our savings account or an overdraft line of credit. I figured I'd go for the line of credit since if my checking account got hacked, I didn't want my savings to get drained as well.

Last year, they started charging a $60 annual fee to have the overdraft line of credit. This year, they're saying not only is it a $60 annual fee, they're going to charge $5 per occurrence (even though it's going to a line of credit). So, it's cheaper than $30 or $40 if you do it all the time, but a perfect waste for someone like me who actually balances his books :P

If you're not in the program, you just pay the $40 each time (or whatever it is now).

It used to be a good program that gradually got sucky.