- Clothing
- Lord and Taylor : [Apparel] 25% Off Entire Order w/ Coupon FRIENDS + Printable
- PacSun: [Clothing & Accessories] PacSun Fall Sale: Up to 45% off
- Footlocker: [Sports Gear] Extra 20% off Store-Wide Orders of $79+
- The Limited : [Apparel] $20 Off $60 or $30 Off $100 Purchase w/ Coupon 292 + Printable
- BustedTees: [Clothing & Accessories] Busted Tees 24 Hour Sale: 40% off sitewide + extra 10% off
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Morning Deals
By 10.21.09
Best Buy Can Now Overcharge New Yorkers 'Round The Clock
By 10.20.09
If you like Best Buy, come to New York City! In November the company will open its first 24-hour store, in the remodeled carcass of the Circuit City that formerly anchored Union Square. In fact, it’s probably best we call it the Circuit City Best Buy to avoid confusion. According to Best Buy’s PR department, the store will also feature “the largest Best Buy Musical Instruments Department in the United States.”
Bank Of America Will Introduce Annual Fees Next Year On Some Cards
By 10.20.09
Bank of America has announced that it plans on “testing” annual fees on some of its reward cards starting next year. The odds are good you won’t see this—a BoA spokeswoman says it will only be tested on 1 percent of accounts globally—but who knows? Maybe the BoA Fairy will smack you down.
Epic: Kindle 2 Fails Man's Drop Test, Forces Amazon To Pay Him $400
By 10.20.09
Paul bought a Kindle 2 from Amazon. He dropped it one day, and it sort of broke but not entirely, and Amazon wanted $200 to replace it. Instead, he got them to send him a $400 check, while still keeping the device. How? [More]
Morning Deals
By 10.20.09
- Babies
- Amazon: [Baby] Buy a Britax Blink Stroller & Get $50 off a Britax Convertible Car Seat + free shipping
- Armani Exchange: [Apparel] New Armani Exchange Coupon Codes 20% Off $100 + Extra 10% Off + Free Shipping
- Perry Ellis : [Apparel] 44% Off Entire Purchase w/ Coupon LUCKY44OFF
- JewelryUnder100: [Jewelry] Stainless Steel Wedding Band for $3 + $5 s&h, more
- ShoeSteal: [Shoes] ShoeSteal.com Sale: Up to 90% off + extra 15% off women’s shoes (men’s too)
- REI: [Sunglasses] Tifosi Forza GT 2008 Edition Sunglasses $16.93 + free shipping to store
Clothing
Home Depot Needs To Check Your Receipt "In Case You Stole Something"
By 10.19.09
Rather than make up some line about needing to make sure customers receive everything they paid for, Home Depot is now openly treating its customers like shoplifters.
Salary Czar To Ex-BoA CEO: No Pay For You!
By 10.19.09
Departing Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis will get no 2009 pay or bonus. But won’t this serve as a disincentive to future executives who are thinking about totally cocking up their company and bringing down the US economy? [WSJ] (Thanks to Snarkysnake!)
Best Buy Offers To "Install" Mario Party8 On Your Wii…
By 10.19.09
While shopping at Best Buy, Chris spotted this wacky sticker on Mario Party 8, no doubt an accident, in which the benevolent Geek Squad offers to do the impossible for you and install the game onto your Wii, which doesn’t let you install disc-based games.
Note The Scare Quotes Around Target's "Free Shipping" In This Headline
By 10.19.09
Lisa ordered a sewing machine and a dress from Target.com and had the silly idea that clicking on the “free shipping” option, purportedly available on orders over $50, would lead to free shipping. Lo and behold, she was stuck with $5 in shipping charges!
Morning Deals
By 10.19.09
- Clothing
- Vans: [Shoes+] 10% off & Free Shipping on All Shoes and Apparel
- Landsend : [Apparel] Women’s Faux Shearling Pull Thru Scarf for $3.99 w/ Coupon OCT20 w/ Free shipping
- Gap, Old Navy, & Banana Republic: [Apparel] Save 15% to 25% off Store-Wide Orders
- 6pm.com: [Clothes] 55% Off All Nike Apparel at 6pm.com
- Lands’ End: [Men’s Apparel] Lands’ End Men’s Overstocks: Deals from $4 + free shipping
- metrostyle: [Women’s Apparel] metrostyle women’s coats clearance: Up to 72% off + extra $15 off, more
- Nebraska Furniture Mart : [Blu-Ray Player] JVC Blu-Ray Disc Player for $129.99 + Shipping
- OfficeMax : [Laptop] HP Mini 10.1″ Netbook w/ 1GB Memory + 160GB Drive for $279.99 w/ Free shipping
- Geeks: [Skype Phone] Skype VoIP USB Phone with LCD Display $14
- NewEgg: [Keyboard/Mouse] Microsoft Laser Desktop 6000 V2 Wireless Keyboard & Mouse $29.99 + free shipping
- Best Buy: [Laptop] 15.5″ Sony VAIO VGN-NW240F/T Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz Laptop w/ Windows 7 for $649.99
- Best Buy: [Movies] Best Buy Popular Blu-Ray Movies under $20 (Watchmen $17.99, Dark Knight $16,99, MORE)
- Jack in the Box : [Restaurant] Free Turkey Bacon Chedder or Deli Sandwich w/ Soda Purchase Event on October 20
- Walmart: [Seasonal] Halloween Decorations under $10 + $1 s&h at Walmart
- ShindigZ : [Costumes] $10 Off $20 Purchase w/ Coupon SZ10H20
- Sears: [Seasonal] Sears Halloween sale: 40% off costumes + $5 off $50
- Amazon: [Tools] Swiss Army Champion Plus Pocket Knife $28 Shipped
- dog.com: [Pets] Eat-N-Store Wood Cabinet Dog Bowl Holder for $10 + $6 s&h, more
- Southwest Airlines Vacations: [Vacations] Southwest Vacations Deals: Halloween Horror Nights for $169, more
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Be Sure To Miss This Great Deal At Target
By 10.18.09
We’d like to alert you to an exciting sale on iTunes gift cards at Target this week. All cards are $30, regardless of whether their face value is $15 or $25. (Thanks, Nick!)
How Can We Determine Who Gave Us This $250 Wedding Present?
By 10.17.09
UPDATE: The gift-giver’s identity has been discovered! Perhaps this is a better question for Miss Manners than Consumerist, but Chris needs help. See, a beautiful red KitchenAid mixer, an item on his Target wedding registry, arrived via FedEx with no clues as to who sent it. Adding to the confusion, the item doesn’t appear to have come off the registry. Which seems to us to be the entire point of registries.
Fake Lottery Winner Enrages Burlington Coat Factory Shoppers
By 10.17.09
Earlier this week, a lottery winner pulled up her stretch Hummer in front of a Burlington Coat Factory store near Columbus, Ohio. In an Oprah-esque share of largesse, she promised to buy every shopper in the store $500 worth of merchandise. But she turned out to be no fairy godmother. She wasn’t even a real lottery winner. When customers discovered the lie, they took their frustration out on the store, trashing it.
Bank Of America Posts $1 Billion Loss In Third Quarter
By 10.16.09
Do you hate Bank of America? Well take today’s earnings report and wallow around in it like Ann-Margret in beans, becuse the bank has posted a loss of $1 billion before dividends to preferred shareholders—”When those dividend payments are included, the loss was $2.24 billion,” reports the New York Times.
Walmart Now Offering New Hardcovers For $9
By 10.16.09
Walmart just tried to undercut Amazon on, of all things, books. They’ve announced that they’re now selling the “top 10 pre-selling books” for $9 each, with free home delivery. Amazon has responded by dropping its price to $9 on the same titles, but their free shipping doesn’t kick in until you buy $25 worth of merchandise (or pay the annual fee for Amazon Prime). Price war!
Morning Deals
By 10.16.09
- Clothing
- Brooks Brothers: [Apparel] Brooks Brothers Clearance up to 60% Off + $10 Off $50 + Free Shipping $200+
- Fashion Bug : [Apparel] 50% Off One Item w/ Coupon 776214207
- Eastern Mountain Sports: [Apparel] October Sale: Save Up to 30% off Gear & Outerwear
- SteveMadden: [Clothing & Accessories] Steve Madden Boot Sale: Up to 71% off + free shipping
- Cabela’s: [Men’s Apparel] Cabela’s Men’s Early-Season Nylon Parka for $15 + $6 s&h
- CompUSA: [iPod] Sony S-AIRPLAY AIR-SA20PK Wireless iPod Dock and 2 Speakers / Receivers $189.99 + free shipping
- Best Buy: [Blu-ray Player] Samsung BDP-P1600 Blu-Ray Player w/ $50 Best Buy Gift Card $179.99 Free Shipping
- TigerDirect: [HDTV monitor] Samsung Touch of Color T240HD 24-inch LCD Monitor / 1080p HDTV $269.99 + free shipping
- 6ave.com: [Home Theater] Onkyo TX-SR607 7.2ch Home Theater Receiver (6 HDMI, HDMI Upconversion) $369 Free Shipping
- Buy.com : [KVM Switch] D-Link 2-Port PS/2 KVM Switch with Audio Support for $14.99 after $10 rebate w/ Free shipping
- Amazon: [Headphones] JBuds J2 Premium Hi-Fi Noise Isolating Earphones $14
- iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Freebies: Panelfly, Pixo, Logstr, Bad News Robot, Super Communicator, more
- Sky Mall : [Gifts] $10 Off $10 Purchase w/ Coupon RESTEASY
- Meritline: [Optics] Compact 10×25 Sport Binoculars $7 Shipped
- ThinkGeek: [Gadgets] ThinkGeek.com coupons: $10 off $30 or more + 2-for-1 EvilTrons
- Happybabyfood.com: [Food] Free Package of Nurture Happy Baby Organic Baby & Kids Meals w/ Coupon – Printable
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Judge Tells ASCAP No Royalties For Ringtones
By 10.16.09
One of the weirder strategies by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) recently has been to claim that every time a ringtone played, a royalty should be paid. ASCAP sued AT&T earlier this year over the claim, but a federal judge has ruled that your phone ringing does not constitute a public performance.
