There’s no need to lead an on-board mutiny or deploy Macchivelian mind-tricks, here’s how you get first-class airplane seats for cheap.
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Find Cheap Gas
By 5.8.06
Two tools for finding cheap gas teats nearby are Cheap Gas and MSN Autos. The first integrates Gas Buddy with Google Maps. Bill Gates’ offering displays pricing info from over 90,000 gas stations nationwide using data from the OPIS Price Index.
Better Bidding for Hotel and Airfare
By 5.5.06
A few days ago, we chatted about biddingfortravel.com,an online forum for people to share bidding strategies on travel auction sites like Hotwire and Priceline.
UPDATE: Buying a Car and Getting Away With It
By 5.3.06
2006. It’s called, “The Financing Fell Through Scam.”
HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen
By 5.3.06
After our last post on identity theft, regular Consumerist commenter trixare4kids sent us a great, well-crafted email detailing her own experience having her identity stolen. Better yet, she wrote us a personalized How To for getting through an identity theft crisis.
Renegotiate Your Cellphone Bill
By 4.25.06
Here’s some some salient pointers on doing battle with your cellphone company to get your cellphone contract to not feel so terribly much like a roll in the ol’ iron maiden.
HOWTO: Extract Spam Calls From Your Cellphone
By 4.15.06
Say someone’s leaving unsolicited marketing messages on your cellphone and you want to save them to your computer so you can share them on the internet. How do you do it?
Hard-to-Find Customer Service Number Roundup
By 4.14.06
Some companies are loathe to make their customer service number available. The thought of interacting with their customers, helping people use their product, resolving problems … well some companies just aren’t ready for that kind of relationship. We were able to glean this info from old Lifehacker posts.
Calls From a Stranger
By 4.13.06
Clampants has been getting strange Spanish phonecalls on his cellphone. Once, when getting off a plane in Austin, he and his wife, neither of whom speak Spanish, had muffled Spanish voicemails from the same number.
Consumerist Kit: The Handbook of Savvy
By 3.14.06
Check out the free 166 page 2006 Consumer Action Handbook as published by the Federal Citizen Information Center.
