Estimated utility bills are a great way to get screwed over. Marjorie writes that the NYC Water Board overcharged her fivefold since 1997. After discovering the discrepancy, her lobbying for reimbursement only lead to a trickle of refunds and rebates.
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Today in Craigslist Barter NYC. It Ain’t Just Cheese for Plowshares Anymore.
By 2.21.06
This one is not what you think.
Consumers Speak: jetBlue’s Boston Boomerang
By 2.13.06
This is a special ‘Consumers Speak,’ as the consumer is us. We’re currently sitting on a jetBlue flight at Logan Intl’ in Boston. We arrived here at 4:00 for a 6:20 flight.
Big Apple Store Never Closes
By 2.10.06
New York City’s newest Apple store, currently under construction on Fifth Avenue and set to open in May, is not only going to be one of the larger Apple retail stores in the world; it’s also apparently going to be open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This all night Mac house will be slinging iPods and Macbooks to jittery, bleary-eyed addicts in the heart of Manhattan, even as innocent citizens sleep nearby—at least until the East Side neighborhood associations start to complain.
Consumerist Research Team Assemble: Buying Cigarettes in New York
By 1.24.06
Since today is turning out to be one of those days where we lay out all our shortcomings and ask you to help us fix them, we’ll see our own bad credit and raise ourselves one addiction. It seems that Bloomberg is threatening to raise cigarette taxes again, which would bring the tax total to $3.50, or more than most people pay for cigarettes in their entirety in most states.
Renters Speak: The Cockroaches of Central Park
By 1.19.06
Despite the great response we got from our request for bad rental experiences, we can’t get enough horror stories about awful living situations—especially ones in New York.
Are Town Cars Exempt from the $10 Transit Strike Limit?
By 12.20.05
Friends of ours have been charged way more than usual for car rides to and from work in New York today, never once having left the zone. We were under the impression that the livery rules also applied to hired car services? Are we just wrong?
