Helio offers a “Total Happiness Guarantee” which says that if you don’t like their phone or service for any reason you can return it within 30 days for your money back, no questions asked. However, their customer service staff is poorly trained and could try to tell you don’t get sales tax refunded, blogs LifeClever. It’s also going to take at least four months for the refund to process, he found, along with other annoying fun plot points.
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Helio's "Total Happiness Guarantee" Evidently Uses Alternative Understanding Of The English Language
By 9.18.07
Ask for Something You Don't Want, Then "Give" On It
By 9.18.07
Free Money Finance shares a classic negotiation strategy. Ask for something you don’t care about along with the list of things you do care about. When the other party counteroffers, you can fold on the point you don’t care about while sticking to those you do. Then they feel like you’re meeting them in the middle.
By 9.18.07
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If you have over $2,500, you can start earning upwards of 5.2% interest with this hard-to-find Bank of America money market account. [My Money Blog]
Make Credit Card Companies Your Bitch
By 9.16.07
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity reminds us that savvy consumers can take advantage of credit card companies hellbent on turning a profit. Most credit card companies will go to great lengths to keep their customers happily spending away. Use these tips to make them cater to your every financial desire:
By 9.14.07
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People with a lot of credit cards, such as those who are regular players of credit card arbitrage, can use baseball card holders to help organize them. [My Money Blog]
The Zero Based Budget
By 9.14.07
RateState put together a free “zero based budget” excel sheet which you can use to get a handle on your personal finances. The idea behind it is that every single dollar you earn will get allocated to a specific category. There is no money sloshing around, you have total mastery over all of your money.
Verizon FiOs Install Results In Gas Line Breach
By 9.14.07
One Verizon FiOs install results in breached sewer pipe. Another, a breached gas line. There was no explosion, or even smoke. Some unpleasantly scented puffs of air, though. Guess they’re getting better. What do you expect to happen when you have guys drilling through stuff? Accidents, that’s what. Unfortunate and statistically insignificant accidents. It all comes out in the wash. Like blood. Blood comes out in the wash, right? Still, it’s almost like some of these guys have no idea what they’re doing. “It’s true QAM.” Yes, we have true qualms.
Which Cellphone Company Is Best About Fighting Text Message Spam?
By 9.14.07
Cellphone text message spam is still rare, but annoying, especially as each one usually costs you. If you’re experiencing a deluge, often the only way to fight it is to turn off text messaging entirely, but which providers let you?
By 9.13.07
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The cheapest days to fly are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. [Rick Seany]
Appeals Court Says Hacking Your DirecTV Not The Same As Commercial Piracy
By 9.13.07
While piracy funds kills babies, we support the idea of people being free to modify devices they have purchased with they money they earned through blood, sweat and toil, so we were glad to hear that an appeals court said that hacking your DirecTV card shouldn’t be penalized under a more punitive clause of the Federal Communications Act.
How To Budget With An Irregular Income
By 9.13.07
Most money-management systems presuppose a steady paycheck, but No Credit Needed shows how you can track your dollars even if you aren’t sure of when they’ll arrive.
Installing CFLs Decreased Family's Electric Bill
By 9.13.07
Blogging Away Debt made this graph to show how much their family reduced energy consumption by installing compact fluorescent light bulbs and unplugging a freezer in the basement. The chart shows a decrease of around 2-3 average kilowatts hours per day, resulting in electrical bills that were about a half as much as before.
Start A Coupon Train
By 9.13.07
A nifty idea for increasing the benefits of coupons is to start or join a coupon train.
By 9.12.07
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Wealthy snobs use big words to advertise their exemption from dirty work, wrote Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class, “they are reputable because they are cumbrous and out of date, and therefore argue waste of time and exemption from the use and the need of direct and forcible speech.” [Seth’s Blog]
Max Your Cashback Combining American Express Blue Cash And Chase Freedom Cash Visa Credit Cards
By 9.11.07
Free Money Finance has a good post on combining the cashback powers of American Express Blue Cash and Chase Freedom Cash Visa Credit Cards for maximum moolah back in your pocket.
Walmart Tries To Steal Shopper's Baby
By 9.11.07
A Walmart security guard demanded a woman hand over her baby at checkout, thinking it might have been a baby that was reported missing in the store, according to a Myspace post by the mother, Stacy Arrington of Parkville, MD (pictured):
Federal Efficiency Standards Result In Less Efficient Washers
By 9.11.07
As of January, the Department of Energy requires washer makers to use 21% less energy, but some makers are meeting the standards by decreasing how well their products actually wash clothes, according to Consumer Reports.
American Home Shield Technician Likewise Unaware Of How He Stay In Business
By 9.10.07
HIM: “I don’t know.”
His complaint letter to the company follows…
