I provided my receipt and got my money back.
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Is Sylvester Stallone Taking Over Your TV?
By 12.12.06
Well, this is totally impossible to confirm, but we just got a complaint from a reader saying that their DVR was recording Sylvester Stallone movies all on its own. They think this might be some sort of sly promotion tied into the new Rocky movie.
VerizonMath’s Open Letter To Verizon
By 12.12.06
George Vaccaro posted an open letter to Verizon after winning a public battle over his wireless bill, a fight that hinged on Verizon Wireless employee’s inability to tell the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars.
Transcript Of Verizon Still Not Knowing Difference Between Dollars And Cents
By 12.12.06
Inside is the phone transcript of another user experiencing the same problem as George. Verizon told Peter he was to be charged .0015 cents per kilobyte for data usage. Instead, they charged him .0015 dollars.
Netflix Hides Its Customer Service Number
By 12.11.06
A few weeks back 60 minutes did a profile of Netflix and its owner, Reed Hastings, (who has to have the best corporate name since Warren Widicus.) Anyway, much like our readers, Reed could not find Netflix’s customer service number the Netflix website.
Verizon Still Can’t Count
By 12.11.06
Peter goes through several employees who can’t understand the hundredfold difference between dollars and cents. He escalates to and wrangles with a supervisor. At the end, Peter asks for his charge to be refunded.
Gift Giving Tip: Pretend Your Loved Ones Are Strangers
By 12.11.06
“Familiarity with another consumer is not particularly helpful when predicting the others’ product attitudes,” Lerouge and Warlop say. They find that even when our loved ones tell us what they like, we think we know better. The findings appear in the December issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.”
Verizon Doesn’t Know Difference Between Dollars And Cents
By 12.8.06
Verizon doesn’t know the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars.
Camp Stove Runs Completely On Innuendo
By 8.16.06
This instruction booklet for the MSR Whisper Lite gets pretty hardcore in its murmurings.
Panexa: The Best and Worst Drug Ever
By 5.30.06
Stay Free magazine ran an amusing back page goof ad for “Panexa” and also made a website. Now there’s a promotional video.
Airhitch Hookup Ends in Bitchslap
By 5.15.06
Customer looks for answers from airhitch.org, a site that helps people hitchhike on commercial jets; instead, gets ass roundly handed to them. After the conversation turns deadly, the customer threatens to take a screenshot of the chat and send it around cyberworld, the Airhitch CSR tells him to, “Send it to GOD if you want.”
10,000th Shoplifter Gets Parade
By 5.12.06
A Dutch store owner, sick of shoplifters, decides to give the 10,000th shoplifter a big prize, including party hat, cake and an in-store marching band.
