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Target Feels Need To Brag About Selling Gift Cards At Face Value
By Laura Northrup on May 23, 2012 9:34 AM
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Hey, who doesn't love gift cards? Target sells a few as impulse items at the checkout, and Reader Cheryl noticed something curious. The gift cards had the same "as advertised" tag that sale flyer items at Target get, but they weren't on sale. They were being sold at face value. As gift cards generally are. More »
Are You A Customer Service Saboteur? If So, What Kind?
By Chris Morran on May 17, 2012 3:48 PM
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The idea of the bad consumer — the person whose antics make products and services more expensive or cause stores to enact anti-consumer policies — is nothing new to Consumerist readers. But a college student in Washington recently undertook an effort to identify seven categories of what he calls "Customer Service Saboteurs." More »
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4.5 Billion Spam Texts Sent To U.S. Cellphones Last Year
By Chris Morran on April 30, 2012 2:35 PM
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If you think you've seen an uptick in the number of spam texts showing up on your wireless phone in recent months, you're not crazy. A new report claims that the number of those unwanted messages jumped 45% last year, totaling 4.5 billion texts in the U.S. alone. More »
Thanks For Finally Figuring Out How Brain Freeze Works, Scientists!
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 23, 2012 4:00 PM
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Brain freeze is nobody's friend — and there's no way we can slow down when it comes to eating ice cream, so it's one of those necessary evils. The science of the whole painful experience has alluded us for a long time, but now researchers claim they've gotten to the bottom of it. More »
Too Bad We Can't Pump Natural Gas Into Cars -- It's Crazy Cheap Now
By Phil Villarreal on April 12, 2012 8:45 AM
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Not all gas costs are soaring. Natural gas has dipped to its lowest price in 10 years, dropping to less than $2 per 1,000 cubic feet. The last time gas was cheaper than its current rate of $1.984 was January 2002. That's a good sign for your home gas bills, but won't do you any good at the pump. More »
Do Some Heavy Lifting, Save On Gym Memberships
By Phil Villarreal on April 10, 2012 10:15 AM
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Some workout enthusiasts rationalize paying a lot of money for gym memberships by telling themselves that the financial commitment makes them work out more often to get their money's worth. That's just crazy talk. If you work at it, you can trim your monthly membership fees along with your waistline. More »
Bragging On The Radio About How You Lied To Get Out Of Jury Duty Is A Bad Idea
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 22, 2012 11:00 AM
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Yapping about how you lied to get out of anything mandatory is always a bad idea if you don't want to get caught, but doing it publicly over the airwaves to crow over how you got out of jury duty? That's just begging for trouble, as a woman in Denver found out recently. More »
Dell Thinks That Second Hard Drive Bay Is Just A Big Hole
By Laura Northrup on March 22, 2012 8:00 AM
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Spencer's Dell laptop has two hard drive bays. That's pretty cool, and he decided to take advantage of this by using it to install a hard drive. But no one at Dell has ever heard of such a crazy thing, and you can't order any of the parts needed to actually hold or connect the drive from Dell's site. Because that would be simple and easy. More »
Walgreens Goes All Out In Effort To Convince You To Buy Sex Toys
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 21, 2012 10:00 AM
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Not only does Walgreens.com have a wide variety of "Sexual Wellness" products, from the usual lubrication and condoms all the way to vibrators and "Adult Toys for Men," they're really not holding back when it comes to the descriptions of each item, and why you'd be crazy not to buy them. More »
Potential Employers Now Have The Nerve To Ask For Applicants' Facebook Passwords
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 20, 2012 10:00 AM
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What's your response if I ask for your Facebook password so I can log in as you and just poke around, see what's up? Probably something like, "Get out of my face, you crazy person." But apparently, some potential employers are actually asking for those private details with job applicants. The nerve! More »
Four Men Walk Into A Bar, Order Cocktails And Parachute Off The Building Without Paying
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 19, 2012 3:30 PM
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We're sure the price of fancy cocktails at the Vue de monde restaurant in Melbourne's Rialto Towers skyscraper are expensive, but BASE jumping off the balcony before paying for drinks? That seems just a tad extreme. More »
Huggies Pulls Ads Featuring Dads Somehow Managing To Care For Children
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 16, 2012 4:00 PM
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Wouldn't it be completely crazy to put five dads and five babies in a house for five whole days? asked Huggies in a recent ad campaign. No, it wouldn't, complained dads (and moms) around the country, because believe it or not — dads are quite capable of parenting, much less putting on a diaper. Those "Dad Test" ads are now going away. More »
Spam Unites People Around The Globe In Odd Social Experiment
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 13, 2012 2:45 PM
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As the saying goes, when life hands you spam, hatch plans with your fellow spamees to create a new social network and otherwise engage in friendly penpal relationships. That might not be a saying yet, but it's what happened when a spam email spiraled into the land of "reply all," uniting annoyed people around the globe. More »
How Does A 14-Year-Old Girl Buy A House?
By Chris Morran on March 9, 2012 4:15 PM
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You occasionally hear about teen pop stars and actors buying their own homes, but it's not every day that you run across a seemingly average 14-year-old girl who not only purchased a property but has already turned it into an income generator. More »
Man Without Cellphone Ticketed For Talking On Cellphone While Driving
By Chris Morran on March 7, 2012 3:45 PM
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We don't have a problem with police officers enforcing laws that prohibit people from driving and talking on their cellphones at the same time. Where we draw the line is at the application of this law to a man who didn't even have a cellphone in the car with him. 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 »
Room-Borrowing Landlord Is Mentally Ill, Running A Scam, Or Both
By Laura Northrup on March 1, 2012 8:00 AM
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Yesterday, we shared with you the story of Z, the room he rented in a small city in central California, and the landlord who thought it was totally okay to stay in his bedroom while he was out of town. We didn't expect to get an update this soon, or for the story to get even stranger. It turns out that while the owner of the house may be mentally ill, according to local police, she has definitely been running a scam for at least the last few months that consists of collecting rent and deposits, then terrorizing renters so they move out. Whether the "terrorizing" part is intentional or not isn't clear. More »
Use Minimal Green To Keep Your Lawn From Yellowing
By Phil Villarreal on February 27, 2012 3:15 PM
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If you've got a lawn, you're well aware of the eternal struggle to keep it looking like an idyllic pasture rather than a ragged, balding wasteland of neglected dreams. Your first instinct is to go crazy with watering and high-cost fertilizers, but those methods don't always keep lawns looking pristine. More »
(Lindacat)
Which Are The Most Frugal Coupon Crazy Cities Of Them All?
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 24, 2012 10:00 AM
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No need to pick up your scissors and start a fight with other coupon-clippers over which city is the best at cutting costs of all the places in the United States — a new set of rankings has done all the comparing for you. It looks like Midwestern and Southern shoppers are the most fanatical about saving with digital coupons. More »
Wells Fargo: Good For All Of Your Banking And Personal Printing Needs
By Laura Northrup on February 17, 2012 11:30 AM
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Nick was giving a presentation at a conference in Albuquerque, and needed to print out a revised version of his notes. He didn't count on the printers in the business center of his hotel being out of order, and the downtown devoid of life, retail, and even Kinko's outlets. Lacking transportation away from the hotel, he tried to think of alternate ways to meet his printing needs. That was when he saw the shimmering green Wells Fargo office tower... and formulated a wacky plan to put his bank to work for him. More »
