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How To: Use Glade Refills On The Oust Fan

Glade Scented Oil Refills Cost $0.15 per ml. Oust refills cost $0.33 per ml. Here is how to get Glade scented oil refills into an Oust Portable Fan. Yay. —MEGHANN MARCO More »

4:41 PM on Wed May 16 2007
By Meg Marco
2,052 views, 21 comments

bread

Longer Lasting Supermarket Bread: Ask For The Frozen Loaves

Want your bread to last longer? More »

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Best Buy's Secret "Employee Only" In-Store Website Shows Different Prices Than Public Website

Have you ever found a deal at Best Buy's website only to travel to the store and find that the "sale" is over? Did the Best Buy employee show you "proof" on their "website"? It now seems that there are really TWO websites, and they're identical except for the prices. Here's the deal: More »

11:49 AM on Fri Feb 9 2007
By Meg Marco
32,864 views, 50 comments

Latest by notoday: Has anyone ever considered the idea that they are a business that is run to produce profit? This particular tactic more »

shophacks

Hack Your Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner

Everyone loves the Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner, except of course, for the people who don't. The main reason not to love the Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner is the fact that the refill costs $5.99. More »

6:09 PM on Wed Jan 10 2007
By Meg Marco
7,146 views, 11 comments

pricing

More Price Tag Codes Decrypted

The popularity of yesterday's "Target Price Drop Hack" post helped rustle out some other retailer's secret pricing codes: More »

4:31 PM on Tue Jan 9 2007
By Ben Popken
4,091 views, 11 comments

fedexkinkos

Tell Kinkos It Sucks And Make Them Lose Money

If you went to Kinkos, and had a sucky experience, you should first try to resolve your complaint with the manager in-store and on-the-spot. Failing that, write down the store address and call 1-800-463-3339. More »

9:06 PM on Fri Jan 5 2007
By Ben Popken
1,935 views, 16 comments

consumerist kit

Hack Amazon Price Drops

Amazon has a policy that if you buy something from them, and the price drops within 30 days, they will refund you the difference. More »

6:41 PM on Tue Dec 19 2006
By Ben Popken
1,602 views, 4 comments

shophacks

Hack Amazons URLs For Bargains

ProBargainHunter analyzed Amazon's URLs and found ways to easily find hidden clearance and deal items by department. For instance, 75% off cameras: More »

6:55 PM on Thu Nov 30 2006
By Ben Popken
14,006 views, 4 comments

consumerist kit

Holiday Shopping Secrets

• Shop at 6pm the day BEFORE the big sale and beat the crowds. A retail industry honcho says the discounts are often put in the day prior.
• Hesitation is good. When shopping online, before you click buy, look for promotion codes. Try searching for the product name and merchant name at couponcabin.com or fatwallet.com.
• Befriend the store staff. Ask with your best bambi eyes if there's any unadvertised coupons or sales going on that week. More »

3:05 PM on Wed Oct 18 2006
By Ben Popken
172 views, 10 comments

Latest by michwood73: Interesting, I found CouponCabin.com and FatWallet.com from a article on MSNBC here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15988971/page/2/ Another site they talked about in the article that more »

shophacks

Lease Your Way to the Hi-Tech Stratosphere

Buy a warranty on a new, untested, fragile, break-prone technology, writes in Consumerist tipster Zoe, and you could find yourself essentially leasing the newest, sexiest gadget every nine months for the rest of your life. While hardly a revelation, it's nice to see some areas where the customer still has the upper hand.

Four years ago she bought two Creative Zen 40GBs for under $300 apiece, along with a 2-year Replacement Plan for $40. More »

10:24 AM on Fri Feb 17 2006
By popkin
105 views, 5 comments

Latest by Flaming City: My favorite move on this front was when I bought an open box printer that was completely disabled for something more »

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