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Sprint: Can You Please Give Us $39,952 Today?

Reader Richard says he came home this summer to angry parents "because of our sprint bill with the family share plan was insanely high." Of course, it turned out to be the same typo we'd written about before, but we really enjoyed the polite but firm manner in which Sprint asked Richard's parents for $39,952... "today." More »

10:35 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Meg Marco
7,288 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: Comment on Sprint: Can You Please Give Us $39,952 Today? As for the comment that Sprints billing system is notoriously inaccurate, that is in and of itself an inaccuracy. Sprints billing system is on the way out while the more »

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Dreamhost Busy Cleaning Up The Great Billing Apocalypse Of 2008

Dreamhost is busy cleaning up the mess after accidentally overcharging their customers by $7.5 million dollars due to a typo. The process is not going smoothly and we've been receiving a mix of complaints and praise. More »

5:59 PM on Fri Jan 18 2008
By Meg Marco
3,588 views, 23 comments

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GameStop Will Not Accept Defective PS3 Exchange Because Of Serial Number Mistake

Reader Ben's receipt doesn't match the serial number on his defective PS3, so GameStop and Sony are refusing to repair or exchange it. More »

12:18 PM on Thu Jan 17 2008
By Meg Marco
11,147 views, 93 comments

comcast

Comcast Wants You To Send Your Bill To A Mythical Greek Woman Nursed By A Bear

Comcast is asking you to send your bills to a character in Greek mythology (Not that the Consumerist never has a typo, but we digress...) More »

12:34 PM on Tue Feb 6 2007
By Meg Marco
426 views, 12 comments

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Typosquatters: Google, Yahoo, Hucksters Profit From Your Butter Fingers

Don't you hate it when you try to go to BestBuy.com and accidentally replace the first vowel with a w? Or put a hyphen between best and buy? And you end up at one of those squatter advertisement sites, designed specifically to garner profits from the typos or ignorance of others? More »

7:19 AM on Mon May 1 2006
By consumerist.com
88 views, 3 comments