Thieves have been dressing up as local utility workers for BGE in Maryland. [More]
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Verizon Billing & Sales Practices Under Investigation In Maryland
By 7.15.11
While the folks in Washington, D.C., are proposing regulations to prevent bizarre, and often illegal, third-party charges from being buried on your phone bill, officials in a nearby Maryland county are actually investigating Verizon’s billing practices following complaints that the phone company has been charging customers for services they didn’t request. [More]
Exxon Mobil Ordered To Pay $1.5 Billion Over Maryland Gasoline Leak
By 7.1.11
A jury in Baltimore County, Maryland, has ordered petroleum giant Exxon Mobil to pay $1.5 billion in damages to residents and businesses of a town affected by a gasoline leak in 2006. [More]
Woman Sues Strip Club For Discrimination For Charging Female Customers Double
By 5.4.11
In February, a woman says she took her husband to a strip club in Maryland to celebrate. But when they got to the door, they were told that she would have to pay double her husband’s $10 cover charge. Now that woman has slapped the bar with a $200,000 discrimination suit. [More]
Too Good To Be True Rental Listing Leads To Credit Score Scam
By 1.20.11
We’ve been getting a few emails about a new kind of rental scam where they try to lure you into giving over your credit card and personal information to a “free credit score” site. One was from Reader Benjamin, who was looking for a house to rent when he and his wife stumbled across a too good to be true deal, a fully-furnished 3-bedroom house in Maryland for only $1200. Seeing as they had nothing to lose, they emailed the lister, just to see what would happen. [More]
Priceline Restores Insanity, Moves Hotel Reservation To Different City
By 11.4.10
Priceline has a very different understanding of what a “hotel reservation” is than Shane does. He and his wife and children planned to take a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Washington, D.C. to attend this past weekend’s Rally To Restore Sanity And/or Fear put on by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. They reserved a hotel room in a close suburb, near a Metro station, correctly assuming that traffic would make driving into the city a bad idea. [More]
Man Attacks 70 Year Old Woman At Walmart, Continues Checking Out
By 10.25.10
A Maryland man was arrested after beating a 70-year-old woman in Walmart after her shopping cart bumped into his wife’s shopping cart while changing lanes. [More]
Toxic Fumes At McDonald's That Didn't Come From Kitchen
By 4.27.10
A prank involving some sort of smoke bomb recently sent four employees of a Maryland McDonald’s to the hospital and has authorities on the hunt for suspects. [More]
Pepsi Plant Leaks Stinky Green Fluid That Isn't Mountain Dew
By 4.6.10
According to reports out of the region, there was a “bright green, foul-smelling” liquid leaking out of a Pepsi bottling plant in Maryland on Sunday — and no, it wasn’t Mountain Dew. [More]
BJ's Wholesale Ordered To Give Refunds For Deceptive Coupons
By 4.1.10
The Maryland AG’s office says that BJ’s Wholesale Club charged customers for items that were supposed to be free. Naughty! [More]
Reach Verizon Wireless Northeast Executive Customer Service
By 7.29.09
Got a Verizon Wireless problem that regular customer service won’t fix? Try escalating it to this guy. Just remember to be PP2P: polite, professional, and to the point.
Walmart Enlists Help Of Local Police Officer To Force You To Show Receipt
By 7.20.09
One would think that Walmart would have had enough of the drama that results from receipt checking — but according to reader Eric, that’s just not the case. He says he politely declined to show his receipt to the Walmart employee who asked to see it because, unlike with Sam’s Club, he had not signed an agreement obligating him to show it. Walmart didn’t see it that way.
Man Gets $10,000 Back From Insurance Company Thanks To Metafilter
By 6.22.09
We readily admit that there are places on the Internet other than Consumerist where one can harness the Internet hive mind to solve consumer issues. Ask Metafilter user Jason sought help when his former insurance company wouldn’t stop auto-billing him, and emerged victorious, collecting the $10,000 he was wrongly charged…plus interest!
Maryland Comptroller Unveils "Real Taxpayers Of Genius"
By 2.9.09
How Many Jobs Did We Lose In 2008? As Many As If We'd Fired The Entire State of Wisconsin
By 1.9.09
The numbers are in and we lost 2.6 million jobs in 2008, making it the worst year since 1945. How do you picture 2.6 million jobs? Well, by looking at Wisconsin. Or Missouri. Or Maryland.
Sixth Circuit Overturns Arbitrator Who "Showed A Manifest Disregard Of The Law"
By 8.21.08
Earlier this week, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an arbitration decision in a dispute between Coffee Beanery and a franchisee. The court found that the arbitrator, hired by the American Arbitration Association, “showed a manifest disregard of the law” by siding with Coffee Beanery.
Giant Foods Cashier Said I Had To Be 30 To Buy Zyrtec!
By 6.17.08
Reader Amie had an odd encounter with a Giant Food cashier today. As she was checking out the cashier asked if she was 30 because he wasn’t supposed to sell Zyrtec to anyone under 30.
Castle Toyota Rescinds Scholarships After Students Decide To Mourn Their Dead Teacher Instead Of Staging A Commercial
By 6.8.08
Poor Howard Castleman. All he wanted was a little PR for his car dealership. Castleman planned to give four scholarships to students at Patterson High School in Baltimore, but instead of honoring Castleman’s charity by inviting the media and displaying his dealership’s banner at the senior’s farewell ceremony, the school instead decided to honor a long-time teacher who recently died of a heart attack…
