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—>Silly Jeremy, thinking he can use an online Target ad for an in-store only price to gauge the actual price of an item at his neighborhood Target.  More »

—>The hard drive of Chris's HP laptop failed within its warranty period. Technically, it was four days after he bought the brand-new computer, but who's counting?  More »

—>Jon spent $250 on a Western Digital VelociRaptor but what he received from Best Buy was a Quantum Fireball, a discontinued hard drive that hasn't been sold for nine years. Best Buy, of course, took no responsibility for the odd swap, and said that Western Digital must have accidentally sold a competitor's discontinued drive. Western Digital, of course, said that a Best Buy employee stole Jon's hard drive. We've seen this happen before with Best Buy, and Jon has made it clear that he knows how to bite back...   More »

For some reason, we never really pieced it together when we posted about Best Buy's gremlin-like pilfering of a reader hard drive chock full of personal information, but we've previously reported on Best Buy's practice of selling these reclaimed hard drives.   More »

—>To tell this story, I need to point out that, when I was a bachelor, I sometimes went to various web sites to satisfy my more elicit and transient urges. Probably nuff said, unless any of our sexy single female readers want to email me requesting a more vivid description.   More »