• Would-be iPhone scalper mom buys kid’s 1st place in line for $800, thinking she could buy $100,000 worth of iPhones and flip them on eBay. Too bad the limit was one per customer.
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New Nested Comments Script
By 6.28.07
The new site design made YogurtEarl retweak his nested comments script so if you were using and loving it, you will have to download it again. Supports Firefox with GreaseMonkey and Opera with Opera UserJS.
Hot Consumerist Forums Threads
By 6.28.07
• Amazon.com offers $30 credit if you get their Visa card. Are there reasons not to get it?
Hot Consumerist Forum Threads
By 6.21.07
• Man confronts Mercedes service department, on tape, about his broken moonroof. Mercedes quotes $6500 for replacement and claims it cannot be fixed. Man gets it repaired down the street for under $200.
Hot Consumerist Forums Threads
By 6.14.07
• “A woman who claims she was used as unknowing bait to catch a man taking photographs up women’s skirts is suing retailer T.J. Maxx…”
Hot Consumerist Forums Threads
By 6.8.07
• Man sues energy-drink maker for giving him long-lasting erection. Last name, Woods.
Hot Consumerist Forums Threads
By 5.31.07
Reader receives refurb phone with text messages containing someone else’s debit card PIN, DOB, and driver’s license number. Always clean your electronics before getting rid of them!
Consumerist Forums Roundup
By 5.24.07
We have a magical, albeit, unofficial, place for our readers called The Consumerist Forums where they can start stories, post messages, connect, and frolic. Here’s a roundup of some of what they’re talking about.
How To Deal With Vanishing Comments
By 5.24.07
You may have noticed recently that you click on a post with comments, only to scroll down and find they have all disappeared.
Nested Comments Will Remain Optional
By 5.22.07
We kicked the idea up the ladder about hardcoding nested comments into the site but the powers that be have decided firmly against it for now.
Return Of The Nested Comments Script
By 5.21.07
Now, once again, you can see commenter replies nested inside each other, thanks to a phat Greasemonkey script by reader Yogurt Ealr.
We're Always Looking For Porn On Customer's Computers, Techies Confirm
By 5.3.07
Looking through comments both here and on Digg, it seems that finding and saving customer’s porn from their laptops is one of the perks of the job, and it’s hardly limited to the Geek Squad.
Now With Nesting! Reader's Greasemonkey Script Improves Reply To This Comment
By 2.26.07
Now you can see commenter replies nested inside each other, thanks to a phat Greasemonkey script by reader Yogurt Earl.
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Comments Now With [Reply By Name]
By 2.21.07
The powers that be decided the “Reply By Name” script Gina at Lifehacker whipped up was so awesome that they hardcoded into all Gawker sites . You’ll notice that every comments now has [reply by name] next to the commenter’s name. When you click on it, @ theirname: appears in your comments box, linked directly to their original comment.
Commenter Invite Party At 3pm, Eastern Time
By 2.12.07
Thanks to everyone who participated in the invite party. The chatrooms are now closed.
A Call For Better Comments
This is a request for the comments to be more mature and civil, and have less name-calling, recommendations of violence, and in general, trying to bring people down. It’s gotten to the point of being depressing.