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Zynga-Branded AmEx Prepaid Card Lets You Earn FarmVille Cash In The Real World
By Laura Northrup on May 22, 2012 12:34 PM
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This site does not, in general, approve of Zynga's freemium addiction-based gaming model or fee-laden prepaid debit cards. So we are amused and slightly dismayed to bring you the news that AmEx and Zynga have teamed up to bring a Farmville points rewards card into the world. Fill up your card, spend the money, earn points to buy in-game stuff. How could this product possibly go wrong? More »
Jam Band Fights The Ticketmaster Man By Scalping Its Own Tickets
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 17, 2012 11:00 AM
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You're not the only one who's sick and tired of all the fees levied on event tickets sold through Ticketmaster. Members of jam band String Cheese Incident are so fed up with fans having to shell out extra cash, that they're taking a stand by buying up bunches of tickets and reselling those to concertgoers, sans fees. So sort of a reverse scalp, maybe? More »
Washing Your Clothes Now Involves Complicated Flow Chart, Credit Cards
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 15, 2012 2:00 PM
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Darren's New York City apartment building just got a new set of laundry machines. Which is all well and good, but the instructions that come with said equipment? Let's just say the "3 Easy Steps" touted on the in-depth flow-chart appear to be neither three in number, nor easy. Whatever happened to sticking some quarters in a machine and popping your whites and darks in? More »
Burglaries Are Down, So Why Are People Buying More Safes?
By Chris Morran on May 3, 2012 12:45 PM
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Over the last 20 years, the burglary rate in the U.S. has dropped by around 45%, according to the FBI. And yet, manufacturers of safes and other devices to protect folks' valuables have gone up as much as 40% in just the last few years. More »
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Amazon Marks My Order As Fraudulent But Doesn't Reverse Charge Or Stop Shipment
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 27, 2012 5:00 PM
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Consumerist reader Paul works in the Internet retail business, and as such, knows how easily an order can get tangled up if the shipping and billing addresses don't match. So after he'd moved, he made sure to change the address on his credit card before ordering an item on Amazon. Even that didn't save him from the headache that followed. More »
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Senate Blocks Buffett Rule With 51-45 Vote
By Chris Morran on April 16, 2012 8:30 PM
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While some of us are still fretting about filing our taxes before the deadline, the Senate voted today to put a kibosh on the so-called Buffett Rule, a proposed tax reform intended to guarantee that those earning more than $2 million annually would pay a federal tax rate of at least 30%. More »
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Don't Be Tempted By Cash-Back Rewards At The Gas Pump
By Paul Eng on April 12, 2012 11:30 AM
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National average gasoline prices are undoubtedly heading for the $4 per gallon mark. And the offers of cash back or other rewards at your local station — where gas prices are probably a lot higher — may look awfully tempting. But don't think you'll reap windfalls if you sign up for that new gas station credit card! More »
American Express Fails At Replacing My Card Or Pretending It Cares
By Chris Morran on April 5, 2012 1:30 PM
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Over its long history, American Express has always positioned itself as a credit card company that offers the best in customer service. But one Consumerist reader's story shows that AmEx can screw things up just as royally as its competitors — and that its complaint department also doesn't actually read your complaints. More »
American Express Pulls Gift Cards From New Jersey Stores
By Chris Morran on April 2, 2012 2:15 PM
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A new regulation in New Jersey will require sellers of gift cards to record the ZIP code of everyone who buys a card, because the state thinks a revision to its unclaimed property laws allow it to claim the value of any unredeemed gift cards after two years. So rather than deal with all the possible hassles involved with this change, American Express has simply pulled all its gift cards from retail locations in the Garden State. More »
Billboard Warns Processed Meat Lovers: Hot Dogs Are Bad For Your Butt
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 14, 2012 1:00 PM
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Baseball's Opening Day is upon us, the weather is warming up enough so that the smell of grilled meats is already wafting on the air, and yet a billboard in Chicago decides it's a great time for a wiener buzzkill, warning, "Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer." Sigh, health experts. Big ol' sigh to you for ruining everything with your serious health messages. More »
American Express Syncs Credit Cards With Twitter, Hopes You'll Help Them Shill
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 7, 2012 1:00 PM
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Those evil geniuses over at American Express have dreamed up a way to not only hook in the social media crowd via Twitter, but to also get them to do some of their dirty work. The company announced a new program last night, where cardholders can sync up their accounts with Twitter and use hashtags to earn rewards. More »
You Can Qualify For Elite Status At Hotels Without Staying There A Million Nights First
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 17, 2012 5:00 PM
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The perks of being loyal to a hotel chain can make someone feel like George Clooney in Up In the Air — rolling in and out of locations with the greatest of ease and the least amount of hassle. But what if you're not the kind of person who can rack up 75 or 100 nights per year at a hotel to qualify? There are ways around that hurdle. More »
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Komen Foundation Reverses Decision On Planned Parenthood
By Chris Morran on February 3, 2012 12:15 PM
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Earlier this week, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced a rule change that would cut off funding it had provided to Planned Parenthood to pay for breast exams. After a massive public outcry regarding this decision, the foundation today decided it had maybe made a mistake. More »
UPS Plays Blame Game After $5,000 Package Gets Damaged
By Laura Northrup on February 1, 2012 9:30 AM
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Mike owns a small business, and he ships a lot. He mostly used UPS, and says that he probably spends $12,000 on shipping annually. Of all of the company's items to get damaged in transit, it had to be the one worth more than $5,000 that was insured, but not for the full value of the package. That's just how the world works. UPS claims that the item was damaged due to improper packaging, which is interesting because the item had been packaged at a local UPS Store. But loyal Consumerist readers know that UPS Stores are franchises, not owned by UPS. This means that UPS can blame the damage on Mike, since he's the one who paid someone else to package the item. More »
Woman Says Ticketmaster Threatened To Blacklist Her For Contacting American Express
By Chris Morran on January 23, 2012 12:15 PM
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With the clock ticking down until we open the floor up to Worst Company In America nominations, perennial Final Four contender Ticketmaster is here to remind everyone why they belong in the tournament. More »
Anti-SOPA Movement Unites Trent Reznor, Opera Singers
By Marc Perton on January 18, 2012 5:00 PM
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While SOPA and PIPA have the support of every major record label, the unions representing performing artists, and the organizations that manage licensing for musicians, some performers, writers and artists have stood up against the bills, including MGMT, OK Go, Trent Reznor and the members of OPERA America. (And Neil Gaiman, too!) More »
Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh: Bipartisan Support Of SOPA & PIPA Smacks Of Money
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 18, 2012 9:38 AM
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We've already heard the rallying cry against SOPA/PIPA, urging us not to let the LOLcats die, so we thought we'd ask the king of the LOLcats himself, Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh, to weigh in on SOPA. He explains why his sites are standing against SOPA today and how these potential laws would threaten the Internet as we know it. More »
MPAA Calls Anti-SOPA Blackouts A "Gimmick" To Punish Politicians & Turn Us All Into "Corporate Pawns"
By Chris Morran on January 18, 2012 6:57 AM
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The Motion Picture Association of America cares about you. It doesn't want children to see boobs or hear curse words (though rampant bloodshed is cool) and it doesn't want you to turn into a pawn of the big corporations that it says are really behind today's blackouts at sites like Craiglist and Wikipedia, which everyone knows are both monstrous examples of corporate greed. More »
Google Breaks Down SOPA Opposition By The Numbers
By consumerist.com on January 18, 2012 3:41 AM
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As you probably already know, a number of websites have gone silent today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act currently being considered by Congress and the Senate's similarly controversial Protect IP Act. And while Google, which has previously voiced its opposition to both pieces of legislation, didn't shut down for the day, it is making its feelings known to the public. More »
