• home depot

    Home Depot Website Prices Have Nothing To Do With In Store Prices

    Remember, Home Depot's price match policy doesn't apply to online listings, including its own website. At his local store, Michael paid more than twice the online Home Depot price for a coaxial cable, but Home Depot refused to refund him the difference. They even say as much in small print on each page of their website. With Home Depot, be sure to call and get a valid local price quote before heading off to purchase something you saw online. More »

    8:49 PM on Fri Nov 14 2008
    By Chris Walters
    8,045 views, 78 comments

    Most discussed strathmeyer: So why can't he return it? more »

  • guitar center

    Guitar Center Adds $100 Premium To iPods

    Update: Guitar Center has fixed the pricing error and offered refunds.
    Quick, get out your throw-away cash and head to Guitar Center! Their website sells the iPod Classic and both sizes of the iPod Touch for $100 more than what you'll find pretty much everywhere else. (We guess there's extra rock-n-roll in them.) You know what makes us crazy? We bet people still buy them. More »

    7:45 PM on Thu Sep 11 2008
    By Chris Walters
    6,407 views, 19 comments

    Most discussed trujunglist: After I buy my iPod Touch and Macbook Pro from Guitar Center, I'm gonna go to the Apple Store and more »

  • isps

    Tired Of Your Entrenched Service Provider? Consider A Local Alternative

    Few consumers realize they can ditch their monopolistic service providers in favor of local, independent telecoms that often offer similar services at competitive rates. These smaller outfits depend on service, not size, as reader Sharpstick recently discovered:
    In the Charleston SC area we are fortunate to have local a internet / phone / cable provider called Knology that has made customer service an art form.
    More »

    11:26 AM on Sun Feb 3 2008
    By Carey
    10,804 views, 37 comments

    Latest by Xerloq: @gnubian: I didn't know xmission was on the UTOPIA. I thought it was just MSTAR and Verite (or whatever their more »

  • drastic measures

    Harvard Bookstore: "We Own ISBN Numbers"

    The Harvard Crimson ran a story last week about a student who was asked to leave the premises for writing down the prices of six textbooks at the Coop, Harvard's bookstore of record. The bookstore's president says that there's no official policy against students writing down information, but "we discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes." But what's more surprising, he tells the Crimson that the textbooks' ISBNs—which can be used to look up the same books online—are "the Coop's intellectual property." More »

    4:34 PM on Mon Sep 24 2007
    By Chris Walters
    7,939 views, 70 comments

    Latest by Blueskylaw: The bookstore's president says that there's no official policy against students writing down information, but "we discourage people who are more »

  • travel

    New Farecast Service Tells You Whether That Hotel Rate Is Really A Deal

    Farecast.com is testing a great new feature that evaluates a hotel's given rate, then tells you how much of a deal it really is when compared to past quotes and fares at similar hotels, says the New York Times:
    The $179 rate for a room at the Hyatt Regency was listed as "average" because it was 28 percent more expensive than rates at that hotel on the same date in past months, according to Farecast. It was also 13 percent more than recent Friday-to-Monday stays at the same hotel.
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    12:26 PM on Thu Sep 13 2007
    By Chris Walters
    1,639 views, 1 comment

    Latest by bohemian: This shows deals on the rack rate. I looked at downtown Chicago on a weekend and all were in the more »

  • credit cards

    Easily Compare Best Credit Card Offers

    Bankrate has a very handy online tool for comparison shopping for a credit card. More »
  • comparison shopping

    Comparison Shopping Actually Saves

    We intrinsically know comparison shopping saves money, but according to the Chicago Tribune, we don't compare enough. Though we all think we compare prices, "research shows consumers, time and again, are most likely to buy from the first merchant they visit."
    "Prices for identical goods vary, and unless you actually do some comparison shopping, you're not going to know that," Lichtenstein said. "Consumers say, `Well, I may be paying a little bit more, but I don't have time to shop around.' But if they knew the degree to which prices may vary, they would find it's well worth it."
    Our grandmother knows the price of grapes in every supermarket in at least five states. The Trib has helpful reminders to become more like her.
    • Don't overvalue your time: small savings add up over time to make a big difference.
    • Take advantage of the internet: if you know what you're looking for, plug it into "Froogle, MySimon, Shopzilla, DealTime and Shopping.com."
    • Take a test: search for the last few expensive items you bought and see if you could have saved more.
    If that doesn't help, remember that comparison shopping is the bedrock of our wonderful capitalist economy. If you won't compare for yourself, compare for your country. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER More »

    10:19 AM on Sun Feb 25 2007
    By Carey
    982 views, 13 comments

    Latest by Mad_Science: Comparison shop online? Duh...that's what the internet's for. Comparison shop by driving to multiple places around town? Apparently in Chicago they more »

  • complaints

    Dish Network's Head Served on HD Platter

    It seems the swing towards High-Definition TV formats is happening only slightly less gracefully than a Mack truck doing pirouettes. Channel providers expect customers to invest in building up their network by purchasing HD converters. Apparently they've never heard the old saying that we just made up, "Give a man a free door but make him pay you to unlock it." More »

    10:13 AM on Thu Apr 6 2006
    By popkin
    896 views, 5 comments

    Latest by angsto: Follow up in California. Sue Dish through their agent of process, Corporation Service Company dba CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service, P.O. Box more »

  • airlines

    Airlines Lobby to Add More Fine Print to Airfares

    Airlines are maneuvering to make comparison shopping harder by allowing surcharges to be advertised seperately from the fare. More »

    11:20 AM on Mon Feb 27 2006
    By popkin
    56 views, 4 comments

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