win
Reader L951B951 saw our recent posts about Best Buy's dubious "optimization" services, so he went to the store armed and ready to demand an unopened laptop. The trouble is — he says Best Buy had opened them all. Did this stop our hero from coming away with a laptop without paying the optimization fee? Of course not.
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warranties
According to
research by the gaming blog Joystiq, a mysterious
new error has been affecting the
XBOX 360. The "E74" error, according to some non-scientific data compiled by the blog, has been increasing since the debut of NXE (New
XBOX Experience). Now Microsoft is acknowledging the error and extending their 3-year Red Ring Of Death warranty to cover it.
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bank error in your favor
Readers M & C are honest people, so when
Citibank started randomly depositing money that clearly wasn't theirs into their account, they called to tell them about it. And Citibank took the money back. And deposited it again. And then sent them a check. M & C say that they've begged, they've
pleaded Citibank to stop sending them random checks — but nothing has worked.
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sad
A retiree in Altoona, PA says that his bank told him he could spend the $280,276.76 that was mysteriously deposited in his account. He knew it wasn't his, but the bank assured him that everything was in order and he was free to start spending.
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whoops
Charter Cable is blaming a software error for accidentally and permanently deleting the email accounts of 14,000 users, and is offering a $50 credit as compensation, says the
AP:
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error
Reader Ben's receipt doesn't match the serial number on his defective PS3, so GameStop and Sony are refusing to repair or exchange it.
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error
In a stunning bout of honesty, Adobe's licensing subsystem would like you to know that it has managed to fail "catastrophically."
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