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Call Consumerist's New Tip Hotline: 347-422-6695

Consumerist has a new hotline you can call to leave tips by voicemail. Just call 347-422-6695 or 347-42C-ON95 and let it fly. It's hooked up to a Google Voice account so we can easily embed and play your voicemail in a post. Of course, if you rather the tip be on background and not used for direct posting, just ask for that in the message. We even already have a message since putting up the number in the sidebar yesterday: More »

10:02 AM on Tue Nov 10 2009
By Ben Popken
2,257 views, 78 comments

Most discussed CompyPaq: I know its free and its cool, but is there a real reason why a blog needs a call in more »

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See You At The Meetup!

Heading out to set up equipment for tonight's Consumerist reader meetup at Botanica Bar, 47 Houston st, starting at 6. See you there!

4:35 PM on Wed Nov 4 2009
By Ben Popken
588 views, 23 comments

meetups

1st Consumerist Meetup This Wed. Night!

Don't forget, the first ever Consumerist meetup is tomorrow night. And it's coming at a perfect time: This month is Consumerist's four-year birthday! More »

11:28 AM on Tue Nov 3 2009
By Ben Popken
2,848 views, 61 comments

standard time

Standard Time Starts, Set Your Clocks Back An Hour

Daylight savings time ends today. It's the "good" one, so you get to set your clocks back an hour and go back to sleep. If you're reading this at eight, for instance, set your clock back to 7. Your cellphone, and if it's set to automatically adjust for daylight savings changes, your computer most likely has already changed to adjust so if you're confused just go off that. Today is also a good day to do this twice-yearly change of the batteries in your fire and smoke alarms, and change your windshield wipers. How do you plan on spending your extra hour?

(Photo: C.Barr)

6:32 AM on Sun Nov 1 2009
By Ben Popken
2,700 views, 79 comments

Most discussed Skaperen: Yes on the two nits already pointed out. It's called "Daylight Saving Time", and it ENDS now, not begins. My more »

meetups

7 Reasons To Hit The Consumerist Meetup Next Wed

Here's 7 reasons you should check out our first Consumerist meetup if you're in New York next Wednesday night: More »

11:11 AM on Wed Oct 28 2009
By Ben Popken
4,258 views, 104 comments

reminders

First Consumerist Meetup 11/4!

I just got done setting up our equipment rental to show the Internets Celebrities movies from Rooftop Films, which means that our first Consumerist meetup must be very close indeed... More »

2:17 PM on Wed Oct 21 2009
By Ben Popken
4,409 views, 139 comments

psas

Update Your Consumerist RSS Feed

The RSS feed for Consumerist has changed. Please update your feed reader to http://www.consumerist.com/index.xml
No new posts will appear after this one on the old RSS feed. Thank you!

UPDATE: For those of you who are still getting redirected to the old feed, we are working on it.

11:55 PM on Tue Oct 20 2009
By Ben Popken
8,386 views, 48 comments

videos

Consumerist Videodrome #1

It's Consumerist Videodrome #1! Wherein I make several important announcements about new changes coming to the site and show off my new cat. More »

3:19 PM on Thu Oct 15 2009
By Ben Popken
4,311 views, 92 comments

psas

If You Do Not Add A Working Email To Your Profile By Sunday You Will Lose Your Account

Update: The deadline for adding an email address to your commenter ID is this Sunday, October 18th, at midnight EST. If your account doesn't include an email address by then, you will have to register again when we move the site, and you may not get the same username. If you've already added an email address, thanks! We'll see you on the other side! More »

2:24 PM on Thu Oct 15 2009
By Marc Perton
19,598 views, 134 comments

Most discussed MostlyHarmless: Will the new platform have BLINK tags and Strike through enabled? Bonus points for rainbow fonts. Do early bird registrations get more »

party time

Consumerist Meetup NYC: 11/4 6-9pm Botanica Bar

Woo! We've locked down the first Consumerist Meetup for Wed, Nov 4th, 6-9pm at Botanica Bar, 47 E Houston St, New York, NY. More »

11:38 AM on Thu Oct 8 2009
By Ben Popken
2,473 views, 79 comments

party time

Announcing The First Consumerist Meetup

We're planning on having a Consumerist meetup in early November. Currently locking down a location in Manhattan, more details to come. Nothing fancy, just a chance to meet other readers and hang out with the writers from the site and have some drinks on us!

(Photo: The Joy Of The Mundane)

1:48 PM on Wed Oct 7 2009
By Ben Popken
2,994 views, 104 comments

Most discussed Kimaroo - Fortified...: Awww.. I wish I could go to that.. I'm pretty sure I won't be stumbling on any free airline tickets more »

awards

Consumerist Gets Awards, Makes Remarks

This week Meg and I received the National Consumers League's Consumer Education and Leadership Award for our work on Consumerist. The award was given during the Everett C. Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture. The annual event commemorates the work of pioneering media activist Everett C. Parker, notable for his work in getting a racist TV station's FCC license revoked in 1971. We'd like to share the video and the remarks we gave: More »

12:00 PM on Fri Oct 2 2009
By Ben Popken
2,797 views, 57 comments

Most discussed MaxSmart32: Meg is kinda hot. I'm just sayin'... Way to go guys...congrats! more »

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Sorry About Those Survey Problems Yesterday

Apologies to those who experienced errors with our survey yesterday. Our survey team was surprised by how many readers wanted to join the panel. The volume was so great that by the time they saw that we were approaching the cut-off mark and took down the one year offer, a bunch of readers were already in the pipe. The readers who joined that got error codes and were unable to get the annual sub will be recontacted and provided a link to sign up for the one year trial.

10:24 AM on Thu Oct 1 2009
By Ben Popken
1,215 views, 58 comments

Most discussed MostlyHarmless: What exactly does the reader panel do, btw? more »

survey says

Take Our Survey, Get Free Month Pass To ConsumerReports.org

UPDATE: Thank you very much for your input. The survey is now closed for the time being. We apologize for the unexpected technical glitches and will be figuring out how best to address those who didn't get redemption codes. More »

2:09 PM on Wed Sep 30 2009
By Ben Popken
8,997 views, 89 comments

psas

Consumerist To Receive Consumer Education Leadership Award

This Wednesday Meghann Marco and myself Ben Popken will accept the National Consumers League Consumer Education Leadership Award. We are honored and thankful. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Sep 28 2009
By Ben Popken
2,013 views, 47 comments

psas

Join Us At The Consumers Union Annual Meeting

Want to meet Ben and Meg, get a preview of our new design, tour the Consumer Reports labs, and have a chance to take home a brand new Consumerist t-shirt? You can do all of that and more at the Consumers Union annual meeting, on October 17th. Admission is free, but space is limited, so if you'd like to join us, read on. More »

9:42 AM on Mon Sep 28 2009
By Marc Perton
1,493 views, 8 comments

Most discussed Con Seannery: Will you be having a public sale of these mythical shirts? And maybe a public presentation of GESD's labcoat? more »

blogs

Read My "Google Power Reader" Feed

Google selected me to be one of their "Power Readers," which means you can easily subscribe to an RSS feed with some of the blogs I recommend reading. I encourage checking out The Red Tape Chronicles, Bankrate, Credit Slips, Elliot.org, and Frugal for Life, as well as the other blogs recommended by my fellow "Power Readers." Yes, we all got issued special laser rings.

Google Reader - Featured Reading Lists [Google]

6:03 PM on Thu Sep 17 2009
By Ben Popken
1,922 views, 12 comments

Most discussed Michael Belisle: Oh and now I know a small number of sites that Ben reads, for which presumably no tips need be more »

wtf

Danish Government Promotes Unwanted Pregnancies, Tourism

Here's another one for the apology pile: the Danish government is apparently very, very sorry for creating one of the most bizarre tourism campaigns ever. VisitDenmark, which promotes tourism, created a fake website for a pretty young mom who got drunk one night, had sex with a stranger, ended up with a baby, then made an internet video to find the father. The story was purely a hoax—the young woman, an actor; the baby, not hers—and many people sucked in by the sad tale are now pissed off. More »

5:00 PM on Wed Sep 16 2009
By Carrie McLaren
8,700 views, 36 comments

Most discussed dmuth: Just to give folks some additional info, Denmark is the same country that gave us such wholesome things such as more »

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