Rachacha commented on World's Most Conscientious Customer Completes Botched Software Purchase Over A Year Later

"Was the guy from Nigeria, and was the check for more than the services rendered?"

Rachacha commented on Alert: You Cannot Buy Consumerist With Doodle Money

"@Hijakk: No, you forgot to disemvowel the site name "Th Cnsmrst"."

Rachacha commented on What Goes Into Your FICO?

"@dialing_wand: Not sure about the length of time, but something that "penalized" me was the high amount of available credit that I had with respect to my annual income."

Rachacha commented on You'd Think Comcast, A Cable Company, Would Be Better At Installing Cable

"@djsyndrome: No..in looking at the pictures a bit more closely, one could simply undo the splices and screw the coverplates back on again and everything would go back to the way it was."

Rachacha commented on Royal Caribbean Levies $14.95 Steak Surcharge

"@segfault: I have been on one cruise (Carnival) and alcohol was an extra charge."

Rachacha commented on Circuit City Is Hemorrhaging Money: How Would You Fix It?

"How to save CC...board up the doors and cut your losses.Seriously though."

Rachacha commented on Honey, Was That PotBelly's Sandwich $4.23 Or $858,432?

"From the article: "Anyone who wanted to commit fraud wouldn't, I presume, be so dumb as to charge nearly a million bucks on a personal credit card."

Rachacha commented on Study: The Poorer You Feel, The More Lottery Tickets You Buy

"@hillsrovey: I remember seeing a documentary several years ago where a wealthy man backed a project to purchase every winning combination of lottery tickets."

Rachacha commented on Restaurant Chain's Prez Mails Handwritten Apology For Botched Wedding Dinner

"When I got married, we did something similar for our rehersal dinner with about 30 people."

Rachacha commented on Finance Officials Beg Congress To Give Them $700 Billion

"I understand the concept behind the bailout, but the question is which is worse, the colapse of financial institutions who were stupid enough $1,000,000 loans to people earning $30,000 per year, or penalizing the taxpayers, the majority of who are smart enough to live within their means (or at least close to their means) by plunging the government deeper into debt which will force cutbacks in critical services and/or increase taxes just to hand money over to the corporations that made the mistakes. People make mistakes, I understand that, but hopefully there are consequences for those mistakes, and lessons to be learned."