Consumerist
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Roundups
It's Midnight Somewhere...
It's New Year's Eve, and we have some drinking suggestions for you. -
Best Buy
Best Buy Also Falls Victim To Embezzling Buyers
Another electronics store was taken for millions by an invoice-fixing scheme: a buyer for Best Buy and a vendor have been charged with overcharging Best Buy $31 million over four years. -
Stupid Shipping Gang
Don't Even Think Of Ordering A Pizza Stone From Amazon
We'd like to share a personal story: it involves Amazon, Christmas presents, and three broken pizza stones.
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Cable wars
New Year's Surprise For TWC Customers: No More Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon...
Update: A deal has been reached. Crisis averted. Viacom is demanding that Time Warner Cable pay more for the right to broadcast its networks, but TWC has refused. Tonight at midnight, 13.3 million subscribers in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Cleveland will feel the effects of the stalemate first hand when Viacom makes good on its threat to pull all of its networks from TWC. Translation: no more "The Daily Show," "Dora the Explorer," "The Colbert Report," "The Hills," etc. But hey, there's always Hulu and BitTorrent, right? More » -
eecb
EECB Formatting Made Easy With EmailNameFinder
www.EmailNameFinder.com seems to have been made for EECB research; they have grouped basic contact info, as well as corporate email formats (last.firstname@company.com, etc) for many popular and obscure businesses, complementing our own list wonderfully. -
Chairwoman of Chinese dairy company pleads guilty in melamine case, may face death penalty. [Reuters]
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Marketing
Drug Makers Say Goodbye To Swag In 2009
Beginning tomorrow morning, drug companies will stop peppering doctors' offices with branded pens, bandages, tongue depressors, stethoscopes, calipers, mugs, prescription pads, soap dispensers, and t-shirts. More » -
Microsoft
Zunes Everywhere Froze At 2am This Morning
If you're Steve Jobs, you probably dream of stories like this: Zunes all over the world froze up at around 2am this morning and won't reboot, and nobody knows why. More » -
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Keep These Please
Financial Resolutions for 2009
It's that time of year again. m The Earth has moved 'round the sun once again, and for a month everyone will screw up when writing the date. What are your 2009 Financial Resolutions? -
Money
Personal Finance Roundup
Here's our weekly roundup of the best personal finance news. Inside: lessons from 2008, good recession news, FICO changes, smart insurance moves, and saving while eating out. More » -
Feedback Bribery
Most Awkward Consumer Trend of 2008: Feedback Bribery
One of the interesting customer service trends of 2008 has been corporate pandering to customers who leave negative feedback on Amazon.com or company sites. Here's a look at the past year in bribery!
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PSAs
Happy New Year's Eve!
What a year! Today is a half-day of posts, no posts tomorrow. Posting resumes Friday. Carey might start posting as early as this Saturday. Cheers to you and yours, and here's to 2009! More » -
Run for your money
KB Toys Giftcards Will No Longer Be Taken After Tomorrow
According to an Anonymous insider from KB Toys, all locations of the bankrupt toy store will stop accepting gift cards starting January 1st, 2009. Run, Consumerists! Your Time is short! -
Sales
Morning Deals
- Start Sampling: Orville Redenbacher's Natural Gourmet Pop Corn (Free Sample) for $0
- Geeks.com: Reconditioned Seagate 750GB hard drive for $65 + no-name HDD dock for $20 = 750GB external hard drive for $85.
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Here are some tips for recycling your Christmas tree.
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christmas creep
CVS Raises The Creep Bar: Easter Treats In December!
Reader Bob sent in this picture from a CVS in Indianapolis. Those are reduced price Christmas decorations in the background, and in the center: delicious Easter treats!
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Starting January 1, drug companies will implement a voluntary moratorium on branded goodies from drug companies.
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Hot Topic
Hot Topic Steals Yet Another Design And Sells It As Its Own
Once again, Hot Topic is selling someone else's art as original work. The mallternative retail chain purchased the supposedly original design from Newbreed Girl, which has its own history of ripping off designs.
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