• Airlines fill up on freight to try to make a buck. Cargo crates complain of cramped quarters, having to buy own forklifts. [CT]
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Do Brands Even Exist?
By 6.2.06
This Gapingvoid cartoon was inspired by a page on the Oglivy & Mather website, it’s an actual quote.
The News: Sex, Goats and Self-Serve
By 6.1.06
• To turn around sales, Saks 5th to feature fewer fake goats in store. They made the loyal Park Ave goats jealous. [NYT]
Consumers Confused, Angry, Relatively Literate
By 5.30.06
We received several complaints today that don’t warrant a full posting on their own. Instead, they find home here, in a little place we like to call “Inchoate Consumer Rage Disproportionate to the Complaint’s Severity.”
Burn, Brand, Burn
By 5.26.06
On August 8th, Neil Borman will gather up everything he owns that has a logo on it.
Ask The Consumerists: Who Owns Our CSR Records?
By 5.25.06
Question: when your call is recorded for “quality control”… who owns the call?
Consumers Are Manic Depressive
By 5.5.06
Unable to decide whether the economy is good or bad, the Chicago Tribune settles for a resounding, “Yes.”
iPod Vending Machine Spotted in Atlanta
By 4.14.06
The iPod vending machine invasion has already begun. Constantine von Hoffman writes us:
Trader Joe’s Magic, Revealed!
By 4.12.06
In whoring for a comments invite and proving his worth, Jesse Friedman sent in his term paper he wrote on Trader Joe’s. Now that’s what we call vetting!
Mercury Research Calls Us ‘Full of Crap.’ We Agree.
By 3.29.06
We posted the following comment over at the Radio Marketing Nexus blog in response to their post calling us Haters of Radio:
You Can’t Really Love a Brand, Study Shows
By 3.28.06
It’s not only dogs, it turns out brands aren’t people either.
Mankind Tapes Itself Shopping
By 3.28.06
We went YouTube cruising for shopping videos. In this one, an African-American girl goes shopping for Saturday night clothes while her male co-workers tapes and his friends make slightly derogatory comments.
Radio Self-Fulfills Self-Aggrandizing Prophecy
By 3.27.06
- “A new survey from radio marketers Mercury asked 1,000 people, if a new iPod and an HD Radio receiver were the same price, which would they prefer. As seen in the graphs… the majority chose HD Radio, citing that a radio is simply easier to use than an iPod.”
Monday Morning Reminder: Write Us!
By 3.27.06
Just our Monday Morning Reminder that we want your tips, experiences, complaints, comments, suggestions, criticisms, naked pictures, death threats, bank account details… just about anything you’re willing to send us over at tips@consumerist.com.
Spitzer Sues FreeiPods.com, Spinners of Spam Dreams
By 3.24.06
You already knew all those WinAFreeIpod.coms were scams. Now the People’s Champion, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, knows and he’s suing one of the companies behind it, Gratis Internet.
