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Target Advertises Cheap In-Store Hard Drive Online, 'Varies' Price At Stores
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 » -
computers
HP Overdrafts Your Checking Account After 4-Day-Old Laptop Breaks
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?
He was willing to give the company the benefit of the doubt. HP sent him a replacement hard drive, without including the prepaid shipping label he needed to send the hard drive back. Then...well, that's when things sort of all went to hell. More »
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best buy
Best Buy Sells 9-Year-Old Discontinued Hard Drive As Brand New Western Digital, Refuses Refund
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 » -
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Deja Vu: Geek Squad Gives Elderly Couple's Hard Drive to Flea Market
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 » -
readers
Another Wipe Your Hard Drive Parable
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 »
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