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I'll be giving a rockin' powerpoint presentation tonight in DUMBO in Brooklyn at Gelf Magazine's "Geeking Out" event 63 Pearl St. Carrie McClaren who will be speaking as well. I'll be talking about some of the ways to kick butt and get the customer service you deserve. Should be fun, come and check it out. More »
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—>Let's say you run a toy company. Your retarding poison toys earn you a well-deserved public flogging, which you escape by scapegoating Chinese workers. The media doesn't realize, until it's too late, that the real culprits are the dangerous domestic designers you employ. Sales inch up marginally. Do you deserve $12.2 million, a 68% raise? Mattel's Board of Directors thinks so! More »
—> Sasha over at Consumerism Commentary is actually working on a list of five stupid mistakes from last year, but she's uploading them one at a time and we're getting tired of waiting. We'll post a quicklink or something to the remaining two in a few days. Anyway, here are mistakes one through three, another person's financial self-flogging in public for your edification, or grim enjoyment. More »
—>The RIAA won The Consumerist's "Worst Company In America 2007" reader poll. More »
—>Former Consumerist Editor Joel Johnson takes to task so-called "bleeding edge" consumer electronic mavens, and the bloggers that feed them tripe. In a recent screed, he advises waiting for the early adopters to make the pricey mistakes for you, "before taking a modest plunge."
Stop buying this crap. Just stop it. You don't need it. Wait a year until the reviews come out and the other suckers too addicted to having the very latest and greatest buy it, put up a review, and have moved on to something else. Stop buying broken products and then shrugging your shoulders when it doesn't do what it is supposed to. Stop buying products that serve any other master than you. Use older stuff that works. Make it yourself. Only buy new stuff from companies that have proven themselves good servants of their customers in the past. Complaining online about this stuff helps, but really, just stop buying it.More »
—>Non-whore Arizona Daily Star film critic and friend of the blog, Phil Villarreal, points us to a Variety article exposing Maxim film critic Pete Hammond for allowing CBS to alter the content of his blurb for the Miramax film Hannibal in the name of "family" entertainment. From Philmguy:
Maxim's Pete Hammond embarrassed himself and all other film critics by playing along with the Weinstein Company's finagling over a TV commercial quote blurb. According to a story in the Daily Variety, the studio planned on using Hammond's quote "the most terrifying thriller of the new year." More »
A new European directive bans businesses from creating fake blogs, or posting positive reviews about themselves without revealing their identity. More »
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—>CNN has put together a list of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business and Walmart's choice to hire Edelman PR took home the golden dunce. More »
—>The lucky golden shit awards for the best flog of 2006 have arrived! More »
—>Escada's new fragrance has a fake reality show to go along with it, and our tipster sends along some flogs being written "as" the characters in the fake reality show. Can't wait to read the online ramblings of three "young, rich, beautiful women" and the "striking soft-hearted artist and the heir to his family's fortune," that Escada just happened to send on vacation so they could film it? You're in luck. More »
