New developments in the ever-popular story of a guy who got revenge on an ebay seller who sold him a broken laptop by posting embarrassing photos found on the notebook once it arrived.
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UPDATE: The Broken Laptop I Sold on Ebay
By 5.30.06
Amir Massoud Tofangsazan has gotten more popular than he could have ever dreamed, or wanted.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.15.06
• Take the time to get a free cup of over-roasted coffee at Starbucks today between 10AM and Noon. Find the astringency you’ve been missing!
HOWNOTTO: Buy a Laptop
By 2.22.06
A HOWTO on laptop buying should be followed up by a HOWNOTTO. Patricia McGehee bought a “high gaming” laptop for $2000 from the “Uniwill Corporation.” She wants to play chess games and found the computer powers down after a CD is inserted.
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 2.15.06
• Here’s a deal for we penny pinchers: SuperMediaStore.com has the Kill-A-Watt Electricity Monitor for $29, shipped. This little gewgaw tells you how much power each device you plug into it uses, equipping you with the knowledge that your desktop document incinerator is actually sort of power hungry.
Consumers Speak: Gateway Laptop Lemon
By 1.10.06
We heartily recommended a refurbished Roomba yesterday as we’ve had great luck in the past purchasing reconditioned electronics. (Although, in retrospect, we haven’t bought very many reconditioned robots.) We did call Roomba yesterday to question what exactly their reconditioning process entailed and were told—not very reassuringly—that “all the broken parts are replaced.”
Consumeristas Speak: Lenovo’s Free Thinkpad Battery Bait and Switch
By 12.7.05
If they were out of stock they could have sent it when they got some more. It’s not like this is a product that is rare. But no, the bait & switch was ‘cheapo printer or go to hell.’
Free Laptop from Visa Deal Actually Not So Horrible
By 11.14.05
A post about a free laptop deal from Visa on a ‘Debt Consolidation’ blog is getting a bit of traffic this morning, from both BoingBoing and Digg. The blog author dissects the cost of maintaining the balances required to receive the $850 laptop and comes up with a fee of—over the course of 17 months—$911.95. Sound heinous, right? It is—if you don’t have enough previous credit card debt to transfer to the new card.
