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.
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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.
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Most discussed ADismalScience: I thought this was a troubling comment from the feed:
Credit card companies really have to revisit their profit model and more »
I recently was forced to move for work. Considering the home market, it won't be a shock that I haven't been able to sell my own home. I'm still paying utilities since I need them on for showing the house. The city where I used to live recently raised the rates of the minimum water bill by about $35, making my new bill for zero gallons used a whopping $92.65 (this is New Mexico remember). This is not my issue though.
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.
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 $1,000.
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There's been a comment war boiling as Marriott, Will, and the hotel's internet access company (GTS) duke it out to discern the vulnerability redirecting Marirott internet using guests to a casino scam site.
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Will's mom was surprised when opening up her laptop at a Marriott to find that if you mistyped addresses, it took you to a popup that said, "CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU'VE WON VIRTUAL REALITY CASINO ! CLICK on OK and Get up to +200$ BONUS NOW!"
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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.
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Running low on gas and stuck with nothing but a gift card WalMart won't let you use? Far from home? Screwed? In your desperation, don't try to sell the card at a loss to another customer. Wal-Mart will call the cops on your soliciting ass. Then they'll throw you out of their parking lot and call you a "vagrant."
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