Not to be outdone by Wal-Mart, Best Buy is rolling out a used-game kiosk program that sucks up your abandoned discs and spits out store credit in return.
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Citibank To Raise Salaries By 50% In Reaction To Bonus Limits
By 6.24.09
The AP is reporting that Citibank will be raising salaries for certain employees by as much as 50% in order to offset the new bonus restrictions. The company faces the restrictions because it took bailout money.
Morning Deals
By 6.24.09
- Glidden: [Paint] Starting tomorrow, free quart of paint in color of your choice.
Man Uses New Tracking Feature To Hunt For Stolen iPhone
By 6.24.09
On Saturday, Kevin lost his iPhone in a bar in Chicago, and by lost we mean someone grabbed it within seconds of him leaving the bar, but no one had seen a thing when he ran back in to ask about it. Since he had the Find My iPhone service activated on it, and his friend had a Sprint 3G dongle on his laptop, they decided to see whether they could track it down. AT&T and Sprint: working together to fight crime!
Amazon Tries To Clarify Download Limits For Kindle Books, Doesn't Quite Succeed
By 6.23.09
Dan, the Kindle owner who last week found that some of the books he’d purchased were no longer available to download due to unspecified limitations set by the publisher, spoke to more Amazon reps on Sunday. They clarified the DRM policy. Well, sort of.
By 6.23.09
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If you’ve been a prompt-paying T-Mobile customer for 22 months or more, you can still sign up for their “Loyalty Unlimited” offering—$50/mo for unlimited calling—through the end of this month. [IntoMobile]
Amazon Kindle Books Can Only Be Downloaded A Limited Number Of Times, And No You Cannot Find Out That Limit Before You Hit It
By 6.22.09
[The CSR said] that there is always a limit to the number of times you can download a given book. Sometimes, he said, it’s five or six times but at other times it may only be once or twice. And, here’s the kicker folks, once you reach the cap you need to repurchase the book if you want to download it again.
Man Uses Geek Squad Badge To Impersonate Cop, Coerce Sex Out Of Prostitute
By 6.22.09
If a man says he’s a police officer and flashes a badge at you, then tells you to have sex with him or he’ll arrest you, make sure the badge doesn’t say Geek Squad on it first. That’s what a woman says happened to her in Parsippany, New Jersey last week.
EECB Finally Gets Someone At Bank Of America To Listen, Admit Responsibility
By 6.22.09
Bank of America messed up Andy’s credit score by failing to send him credit card statements or giving him online access to an old account he only recently started using again. They also refused to work with him over the phone, telling him each time he called that they had no record of his previous conversations with customer service and therefore no reason to believe him.
Morning Deals
By 6.22.09
- Highlights From Buxr
- Borders: [Coffee] Free 12 oz Cup of Coffee w/ Coupon
- Buy.com: [MP3 Player] Dane-Elec Meizu 2GB Multimedia Device for $23.50 after $15 rebate w/ Free shipping
- ZipZoomFly: [Mouse] Kingwin Laser Mouse for $9.99 after $10 rebate w/ Free shipping
This Harry Potter Blu-Ray Set Requires A HD-DVD Player
By 6.21.09
Best Buy is still selling a defective Harry Potter Blu-Ray set that contains a HD-DVD version of the Goblet of Fire. The bumbled bundles were first discovered in 2007, but reader Bill found one sitting on a Best Buy shelf in Grand Junction, CO.
Best Buy Accepts 12 Year Old Gift Certificate Without Complaint
By 6.19.09
Jon wrote back with the results of his attempt to redeem a gift certificate that’s over a decade old.
Why The Fashion Industry Can't Make Clothes That Fit Actual People
By 6.19.09
Another week, another article about brick-and-mortar stores phasing out their plus-sized clothing lines. (Edit: And here’s another!) For those who missed it, Tatiana the Anonymous Model over at Jezebel posted an interesting essay on the economics of women’s fashion, comparing pattern development issues designers face when developing both petite and plus sizes.
Morning Deals
By 6.19.09
- Eastern Mountain Sports: [Camping] Save Up to 30% off Summer Sports & Outdoor Gear
- Amazon: [iPod] Get a Free $25 Gift Card with Purchase of Current Generation iPod Touch Models
- WilsonsLeather: [Clothing & Accessories] Wilsons Leather Clearance Sale: Up to 75% off + extra 25% off one item
Jake Hunts For A Good Laptop
By 6.18.09
Funny or Die has a pretty funny, nsfw parody of the current Microsoft “You find it, you keep it” commercials. Jake’s in the market for a decent laptop that can meet his needs, which include a big screen, the ability to go online, and enough cash left over for some subscriptions to certain adult websites. It’s basically what the real commercial would look like in a world without TV censors.
