From MSNBC: “If your cable TV rates have gone up by 4 percent a year, you’re getting off relatively easy, according to a report last week form the Federal Communications Commission. Since 1996, the average monthly cable bill is up 93 percent, the commission reported last week.”
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Cut Monthly Bills In Half
By 11.14.06
This technique for getting companies to reduce your monthly bills is so classic and effective, it bears explicit reiteration.
The $27,933.55 Gas Bill
By 10.25.06
Michelle Stevens was shocked to open her mail and see People’s Gas bill for $27,933.55
Hack Sprint For Dropped Call Credit
By 10.25.06
This sounds like a nifty HowTo on getting Sprint to give you a few extra bucks off your cellphone bill.
WhiteFence.com’s Tainted Ties
By 10.23.06
A few weeks ago, we posted about WhiteFence.com, a site that lets you compare and contrast service providers, which could be especially good for when you’re moving.
No, Dell Ain’t Charging For Replacement Batteries
By 10.18.06
Contrary to the vituperations of Lowell G, Dell is not charging people for swapping out their exploding batteries.
WhiteFence: Slash All Your Bills, Compare and Contrast
By 10.6.06
UPDATE: WhiteFence is not an unbiased recommendation site. They form “partnerships” with certain providers, limiting consumer choice. Read more in this update.
A Cold Shower A Day Keeps The Gas Company Away
By 10.6.06
Erstwhile Consumerist guest blogger and Upgrade Travel editor Mark Ashley has been taking a lot of cold showers lately. Heck, his nipples protrude like fleshy awls. Yet unlike most men who take to basking themselves in an icy deluge, Mark is not trying to extend his life or cut down on his sex drive: the situation’s been thrust upon him by Chicago People’s Energy (as Communist a name for a gas company as I’ve ever heard).
Cut $20 Off Your Cable Bill
By 10.3.06
Sometimes the obvious solutions are hardest to see. This gal felt her monthly $132.07 Comcast cable/internet bill was too high. So she called them and said she wanted to cancel because of the price.
Verizon Wireless: “You’re All Wet.”
By 9.22.06
Katy calls Verizon Wireless when the screen on her Motorola RAZR breaks for no reason. The CSR tells her she must have gotten it wet. Katy points out that for this to have happened, an unprecedented miracle would have had to occur, in which her purse’s contents suddenly transmuted to liquid then immediately transmuted back. They strongly insinuate she’s lying.
Con Ed: Now With Twice The Bill!
By 9.12.06
Consolidated Edison — so charmingly short-handed to Con Ed by the consumers they’ve gouged — has a delightful new savings plan for customers now available: by merely paying twice as much as you’re currently paying, you can secure yourself the same amount of power you were getting before at a “fixed rate”… but with an unfixed “supply cost.”
Time To Look Up Attorneys In Verizon SuperPages
By 6.30.06
It’s nice to tell Verizon they can’t have any more of your money. Less nice? When they decide to just take it anyway.
