• Geek Squad Gouges. How one Best Buy had its Geek Squad systematically rip off customers.
• Motorola V3i Stops Working For No Good Reason, Wants To Charge $175. One of the most informed and tenacious consumers we’ve ever met. Read her story, it will peel your eyelids off.
• IKEA’s Catalog Makes Girls/Gays Pant and Blush. Man: Get your leg off the couch. Dog: That’s not my leg.
• Pranking Solicitors Into Endless Telemarketing Loop. The title, she says it all.
• Why Target Kicks Walmart’s Ass. Answer: Fewer poor people.

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