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By 3.21.08
By 3.20.08
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Bank of America announced it would be cutting bonuses for top company executives this year. They must have realized you shouldn’t not reward someone for losing tons of money. [NYT]
Morning Deals
By 3.20.08
Highlights From Dealhack
Best Buy Offers $50 Gift Cards To Those Who Purchased HD-DVD Players
By 3.19.08
Best Buy is offering $50 gift cards to people who bought HD-DVD players before Feb 23. say CNN.
The retailer said it will identify customers through its Reward Zone program, performance service plans and through online purchases and will mail out the gift cards to those individuals by May 1.
Best Buy Sells Broken PS3 With Mismatched Serial Numbers, Denies Return
By 3.19.08
So, I take in my broken PS3 to Best Buy today, to replace it of course, and they refused to because the serial number on the console is different from that of the box. They accuse me of trying to trade back a different PS3 than the one I bought (I guess there are idiots that do that), in order to get out of paying to have it replaced. This, of course, is total crap because I bought this EXACT PS3 the night before.
Home Depot Employee Fired For Chasing Shoplifter Sues For $1.5 Million
By 3.18.08
The lawsuit stated:
LEAKS: Best Buy's Internal Customer Profiling Document
By 3.18.08
Attention Profiled Shoppers: Consumerist is now in possession of an internal training document that teaches Best Buy blue shirts how to stereotype customers. While Best Buy’s use of personas has been known for several years, our exclusively obtained document contains several brand-new Best Buy personas, including “Maria Middle America” and “Empty Nesters” Helen and Charlie.
Bank of America Sends You 64 Identical Letters
By 3.18.08
Reader Ted writes:
Love your website. I’ve been a fan for quite a while. I finally have a story of my own to add. A couple of weeks ago I called BofA to cancel the Automatic Payment Plan on my BofA Visa. I was taking advantage of a 0% balance transfer offer. The autopay plan would have paid off the entire balance in full at the end of the month. Today I received 64 individual and identical letters from BofA confirming the change to my account.
By 3.17.08
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Chase is no longer increasing the rates of cardmembers based on their credit-bureau information as of March 1, 2008.
3 Ways To Find Amazon.com Free Shipping Fillers
By 3.17.08
Amazon gives you free shipping if you buy over $25 of qualifying goods so people will sometimes search for “filler” items, little cheap doohickiesand to toss in to bring the total up. Here’s three quick ways to find them, courtesy of WiseBread:
Switched To Fee-Free ATM Withdrawals
By 3.17.08
I’m sick of paying ATM fees so I just finished switching to my USAA debit card for my cash money needs. They refund up to $15 of ATM fees per month and don’t charge you any fees for using other people’s ATMs. I’m still keeping my WaMu account but I took my WaMu debit card out of my wallet and just funded my USAA account with some money. Not that I have a problem but I think this will also help reduce petty cash spending. Plus, by using cash more often that means I’m getting more change, and all my coin change goes into my piggy bank (60% full at the moment, looking forward to the day I take it to the Commerce Bank “Penny Arcade” coin-counting machine). With the specter of a recession giving us all wet willies, are you making any changes to your personal finance system?
Morning Deals
By 3.17.08
Black & Decker Food Processor Comes With Creepy Religious Materials
By 3.16.08
Ever wonder how Jesus and American Idol are different? Reader Jessica didn’t, even after she found a religious pamphlet on the subject in a Black & Decker food processor she picked up at Walmart. She is now “totally creeped out,” and doesn’t quite know how to respond.
9 Confessions Of A Retentions Representative
By 3.16.08
Retentions representatives are the cellphone company’s last line of defense between you and freedom. One brave retentions representative has come forward to teach us how to craft a direct, earnest request that will lead retention reps to do your bidding. Rivaled in effectiveness only by executive customer support, retentions reps are empowered to strike down nuisance fees and bargain liberally, all to keep you as a customer. If you were ever tempted to threaten your cellphone company with cancellation, this one is a must read.
Walmart Takes Phallic "Fun Straws" Seriously
By 3.16.08
BONUS: WSAZ launched a classy investigation into the incident, which appears after the jump.
By 3.14.08
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Here’s the 35 most popular online price-comparison sites. Happy deal-hunting. [ProBargainHunter]
