WalletPop
AOL just launched a personal finance website called WalletPop. It's a combination of news feeds, blog entries, and a ton of calculators (which I just bookmarked in my "tools" folder). Mashable seems to like it—they write that digging through the content can be confusing, but there are some "nifty services such as deal finders and tax forms." ArsTechnica is underwhelmed:
Apart from the quite adequate assortment of calculators, it's all a big heap of plain-Jane articles slotted into categories by simple tags.
...maybe you're better off thinking of it as a fat news feed, packed with ads and a layout that can get tiresome for long articles.
A man who spammed 1.2 million AOL customers was sentenced to 30 months in prison yesterday. Now how will we ever find out how to make bigger p3nz? Oh wait, here comes another spam... [
CNN Money]
AOL is STILL trying to extort money from people who canceled their account. STILL STILL STILL. [
KUTV]
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Vincent Ferrari uploaded his
famous AOL cancellation call on June 13th, 2006. A screenshot from AOL's internal database shows that 10 days later AOL revised its policy for what reps should do if a customer says they're recording the phone call.
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A former AOL employee laid down a diss rap on America Online and wants you all to hear it. Because it's mad funny. It uses a sample of Vincent Ferrari saying "cancel the account."
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The Florida Attorney General successfully sued America Online for their abusive customer billing practices. The State's Attorney office received over 1,000 consumer complaints about cancellation requests being ignored, erroneous charges and unauthorized account reactivations.
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A reliable tipster reveals the buyer of the Ogden, UT, AOL call center that spawned John and Vincent's "Cancel The Account!!!!" call.
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AOL will close its call centers in Albuquerque, N.M., and Tucson, AZ, and sell its Ogden, UT call center. The online provider will also fire 1,400 call center employees.
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Hear that? That's the first rumbling of an avalanche: three AOL subscribers have named AOL as the defendants in a class-action lawsuit for spilling the search results of 650,000 subscribers.
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On her blog, this former AOL call center team manager describes the the pleasure of overseeing some simply delightful underlings.
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Here's the essential differences between AOL's cancel script, the sheet pasted over every AOL cancel reps cubicle to tell them how to handle your cancellation request, from two years ago and today's. Inside, full images of both.
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Rebuffed by former neo-Nazi Davis Wolfgang Hawke's parents, AOL turned to his grandparent's yard in their search for gold. AOL won a $13 million spam suit against Hawke last year but has been unable to collect. They're convinced Hawke buried $351,000 in gold and platinum bars on his parent's property. Or his grandparents. Whoever comes first.
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Now cancelling your AOL account seems to work like a charm. In fact, it's really only put on the dry docks.
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