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Yes, There Is Such A Thing As Bad Publicity
This week, a massive customer service clusterfracas swept the gaming world, then the rest of the Internet. It involved a game console controller that was late in shipping, a a marketing firm in over its head, a popular webcomic, the unholy wrath of the Internet hate machine, and one humble customer who just wanted to know whether he was going to get his gadget by Christmas or not. What did we learn here? That there is such a thing as bad publicity, and that sometimes people on the Internet actually are who they claim to be. More »

TD Bank Charges Non-Customers 6% Fee For Coin Counting
Sad day. TD Bank's coin counter machines used to be free to all, but within the past month they've changed it so now non-customers will get levied a 6% transaction fee. More »

An Unexpected Win At TD Bank's Penny Arcade
At some heartless banks, a malfunctioning self-serve coin counting machine could lead to lost money and general sadness. Not at Flexo's local TD Bank branch, however. A malfunctioning machine meant $32 more in his account. Unfortunately, this windfall came at the expense of the unknown previous customer to use the machine, to whom the $32 actually belonged. More »

Seems More People Playing "The Penny Arcade" At TD Bank

—>So like I said I got $120 from the Penny Arcade this weekend, but I was far from alone. Here is the crappy cellphone picture I took of the line. All those people on the right (plus the dog) are waiting for their turn at the spare change counting machine.  More »

Winning The Coin Jar Game

—>Yesterday was coin-jar payout day for me. I got $120! Woohoo! And since I took my can to the Penny Arcade at TD Bank, formerly Commerce Bank, they counted my change for free, unlike the Coinstars in supermarkets. Perversely, the past few weeks as my coin jar got close to full , I started to really look forward to getting change, to the extent I started to develop some irrational behavior...  More »

Penny Arcade Tries to Cancel Unwanted Toaster Protection Racket

Penny Arcade called up to cancel the Sears "payment protection plan" they never ordered.  More »