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—>When a soon-to-be mother realized she had bought the wrong laundry detergent at a New Mexico Walmart, she tried to return it. That didn't work out so well, ending up with the store manager insinuating she was a con-artist who replaced the detergent with water. More »
—>Our fearless co-leader Ben just sent us this link from the Consumerist Washington delegation. The New Mexico Independent sent a reporter to liveblog today's credit card reform town hall meeting at a high school in Rio Rancho, NM. The transcript includes comments and questions from readers, and also comments from national and regional consumer advocates. More »
Among the "improvements" that have come with the rate increase has been new and improved water bills with return envelopes. I'm attaching a picture of the bill and the envelope. Look at it closely and think of what would happen if I put the bill in the return envelope, stamp it and send it off. I'll give you a hint, I'd waste a stamp and it'd come right back to me! More »
Yesterday I sent an e-mail bomb to several executives at Walmart. The concern was that the store was requiring you to provide your receipt upon leaving the store (as in Sam's club, but at Walmart). As we all know, this is a hot topic issue, and I expected Walmart to ignore my e-mails. But to my surprise, after writing my e-mail on Sunday afternoon, I got a reply shortly after 8am! Here is my letter — More »
—>Sorry alcoholics, US Airways is now banned from serving alcohol on all flights to and from New Mexico. The state Regulation and Licensing Department had already denied the airline a temporary liquor license in June after US Airways served alcohol to a passenger who later crashed his car, killing a family of five. The Licensing Department yesterday rejected the airline's permanent application, claiming that it:
...cannot reasonably find that approval of application will protect the public health and safety or that it is in the public interest.More »
—>Here's a typo you don't see every day. A Honda dealer contracted the services of a direct mail marketing and promotions agency. The agency was supposed to send out 50,000 scratch-off tickets, one of which was the grand prize winner—entitling the customer to a cash prize of $1,000. More »
—>There's been a comment war boiling as Marriott, Will, and the hotel's internet access company (GTS) duke it out to discern the vulnerability redirecting Marirott internet using guests to a casino scam site. More »
When Will changed around the server settings to use a public DNS server instead of Marriott's, the problem disappeared, leading Will to think someone had "poisoned" Marriott's DNS servers to drive traffic to their casino scam page(s). He then reported this to Marriott's techs. We've spoken ourselves with Marriott's server people and they confirm that the secondary DNS is wacked but they need to investigate further. More »
—>The Hobbs News-Sun ran a front page story this week about how t-shirts bearing Nazi insignia could be found on local Walmart shelves, nearly three months after the store promised to pull them. More »
NPR's got a nice little story on payday loans in New Mexico. More »
