Maybe this is something new that we’re missing out on, but since when is there a “rounding” charge? This restaurant in Brooklyn rounded up $.02 to make this bill an (even?) $22.95. Uh, what? Maybe it’s part of the war on pennies. —MEGHANN MARCO
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What To Do When Energy Company Impersonators Come Knocking
By 11.27.06
Reader Mikki spotted one of the IDT Energy folks trolling for customers, pretending to work for ConEd, in Williamsburg.
IDT Prowling Williamsburg Tonight
By 11.21.06
Jack, a resident of the Williamsburg borough of Brooklyn, writes:
Domino’s “Brooklyn Style” Pizza vs. The New York Times
By 11.10.06
The New York Times has a left-wing anti-Domino’s Pizza analysis up today. Far be it from the Consumerist to tell you what sort of pizza to eat, we have to admit the Domino’s “Brooklyn-style” pizza fills us with ire. And we don’t even really give a shit about Brooklyn pizza.
Commerce Bank’s Hot Dog Water Dish
By 9.30.06
We applaud this this a bowl of water inside a Commerce Bank in Brooklyn Heights. It is for pooches to lap at while their owners get multiples of $20 bills from the ATM. Good thing the threat of doggy AIDS is now but an 80’s in-joke.
Toys R Us Hates Your Boobies
By 9.15.06
A Brooklyn mom is threatening a “nurse-in” at the flagship Times Square Toys R Us store after being given the run-around by “security” while publicly breastfeeding her oh-so-stylishly coiffed baby, Mason, seen here.
Finally Found Nice WiFi Spot in Brooklyn
By 9.13.06
Maybe it was so hard to find the perfect Brooklyn blog spot because it didn’t exist. Barnes and Noble and their lack of electrical outlets certainly didn’t do it. In The Tea Lounge we ended up pulling the Pacman machine cord just to get the publicly breast-fed toddlers away. Then, moments before the razor penetrated our wrist flesh, Palo Santo opened.
Happy Day of Labor!
By 9.4.06
Today is a bank holiday for the Gawker Media Network but that doesn’t mean that the fickle wheel of commerce stops keep spinning round. Here’s some updates on consumer’s stories we reported on last week.
UPDATE: Time Warner Pays Inexplicable House Call
By 8.24.06
Dan Edelman gives us an exciting update on the mysterious, TWC tech that visited his house two days ago, without notice and for no apparent reason.
Time Warner Pays Inexplicable House Call, Consumerist Helps
By 8.23.06
Dan Edelman, a loyal Consumerist reader, was shocked to hear a Time Warner Cable tech visited his apartment yesterday. Odder than the difficulty in getting one to show up in the first place was that the tech wasn’t asked for. No service call was put in. His cheetos slathered roommate let the guy in without an explanation. The tech puttered around for 20 minutes and left.
Even TWC’s Customer Service System Is Broken
By 8.22.06
Beth writes in that her Time Warner cable connection isn’t working and they have her account info so bungled that the system won’t even let her connect to a (most likely, incompetent) operator.
Samsung A920’s Continuing Trials: Video & Pix
By 8.11.06
So you may have noticed posts stopped around 12:30 today. That’s because after taking our blog union mandated lunch break, we noticed a gorgeous day out the window. So we took our bike and did a buncha laps around Prospect Park. When we exited Grand Army Plaza, we found about 50 cop cars lined up, ready to perform some kind of neat coordinated operation.
Wi-Fi Or Die in The Tea Lounge
By 7.18.06
In the ongoing saga of The Consumerist adventures in daylight, today finds us pecking away in a corner at The Tea Lounge. Also, destroying children’s hopes and dreams.
WiFi or Die, Perhaps the Latter, Barnes & Noble & Starbucks
By 7.14.06
We’re crouching on the floor of a Barnes & Noble in Park Slope, an enfranchised enclave of Brooklyn. The walls of our apartment began to throb and press against our skull, so we escaped, in search of caffeine, wi-fi and a/c. In a perch between the archival scrapbooking section and the leather journals, the sun beats a low hum across our arm and slow cooks our laptop. We glance enviously at the Starbucks tables.
UPDATE: Hertz Hatin’ On The Boroughs Too
By 6.13.06
Hey, it’s not just me and Dollar Rent-A-Car that hates the Boroughs and everything their denizenship of loudmouthed bozos and doofus hipsters stands for. Hertz does too!
Dollar-Rent-a-Car Hatin’ On the Boroughs
By 6.12.06
Dan thinks Dollar-Rent-A-Car is a bigot, hating jews, minorities and filthy liberals. Otherwise, how can you explain item 1.O from their rental policy?
