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Man Gets $10,000 Back From Insurance Company Thanks To Metafilter
We readily admit that there are places on the Internet other than Consumerist where one can harness the Internet hive mind to solve consumer issues. Ask Metafilter user Jason sought help when his former insurance company wouldn't stop auto-billing him, and emerged victorious, collecting the $10,000 he was wrongly charged...plus interest! More » -
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I recently received a bill from my local utilities company stating that they had accidentally undercharged me for the last year. Now they want me to pay 438.53. Here's the letter, is there a way out of this? [Link] More » -
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So, not that it matters, but, were I to make a paltry political contribution, what would be the most strategic fund for a donation? [Link] More » -
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• How does copyright work when the material is in a library? [Link] More » -
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• Which pets are more apt to eat their deceased owners? [Link] More » -
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Consumerist Ask Metafilter Round-Up
• Brits: is there any American junk food which you covet? [Link] More » -
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• PorkFilter: Is there anything medically wrong with eating large amounts of pork, sometimes irregularly prepared? [Link] More » -
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• My son has an apartment in San Francisco. He works in Marin and uses our(his parents) address for stuff. He also spends time at our house.Is it ok for him to use our address for his car insurance or must he use his rented address(which would also cost more)? [Link] More » -
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• Tonight I was paying at a gas station and I used the keypad to enter my pin. The numbers 2, 3 and 4 showed tremendous wear compared to all other keys except the enter key. Are these numbers most common in pins? [Link] More » -
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• I bought some nice down pillows for myself, and they smell really weird! [Link] More » -
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Consumerist Ask Metafilter Round-Up
• Around August 8, the price of unleaded regular gasoline in Ohio and Oregon were the same, at about $3.01/gallon. Since then, the price of gas in Oregon has dropped only a nickel ($2.96/gallon), whereas the price of gas in Ohio has dropped a whopping 60 cents a gallon ($2.41/gallon) (figures via gasbuddy.com). Why? [Link] More » -
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• In Edinburgh for a few months, what's the best mobile phone to use to make international calls to US (amongst other places) from Scotland? [Link] More » -
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• Can you ride as a passenger in an uninsured vehicle without legal ramifications? [Link] More » -
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• My father is in his upper 50's and his wife is in her early 50's. They don't have health insurance, but they do have a "health cost sharing plan." I think it's hooey. But they think it's great. I'm worried they are going to get sick and be in alot of trouble without some real health insurance. [Link] More » -
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• What advice — reasonably accurate, simple, and not absurdly out of sync with the real world — do you offer your children about sharing music? [Link] More »
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