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20 Online Furniture Buying Tips From An Industry Insider
By 2.27.07
A tipster from one of the top three online furniture retailers advice for shoppers spills his guts. His top advice for consumers looking to shop for furniture online: don’t.
Amazon's Complex Design Sells More
By 2.20.07
The prevailing trends in web design say go minimal or go home, so why then is Amazon’s front page cluster bomb of choices? It sells more, writes Alex Moskalyuk.
Avoid Airport Delays With Free Online Tools
By 2.19.07
What with the crazy weather and JetBlue’s recent mortification, it becomes more important for the jet-setting consumer to stay informed of possible airport delays. Here’s a suite of tools to keep your travels free of travail.
Zillow Accurate Within 7.8%
By 2.16.07
A recent WSJ survey found that online property valuation site Zillow is accurate within 7.8% of the actual sales price.
The Journal looked at transaction prices recorded for 1,000 recent home sales in seven states, using data from First American Real Estate Solutions, a data provider in Santa Ana, Calif., and compared those prices with Zillow estimates, which didn’t yet reflect the sales. The median difference between the Zillow estimate and the actual price was 7.8%
Connecticut State's Attorney's Office Launches Investigation Into Best Buy's Secret Intranet Site
By 2.12.07
The state attorney general’s office has started an investigation into whether Best Buy maintains a secret intranet site that may have been used by some salesmen to deny customers discounts that appear on the company’s public Internet site.
We applaud the CT State’s Attorney for moving so quickly on this, but wonder if the investigation will have any teeth. As commenter something_amazing pointed out, Best Buy’s price matching guidelines explicitly state that the website does not match store pricing, and the store only matches “a lower advertised price offered by a local retail competitor on the same available brand and model.”
Search Multiple City Craigslists At Once
By 2.9.07
Crazedlist.org lets you search across multiple Craigslist city pages at the same time.
Why Walmart.com Sells Japanese Cartoon Porn
By 1.30.07
Here’s the real deal on why there was Japaneses cartoon porn on Walmart.com, much of it of the homosexual male, or, as its known to connoisseurs,”yaoi” variety.
Where Do I Go If There’s A Problem With My Google Checkout Order?
By 1.26.07
If you order something using Google Checkout and there’s a problem with you order, there is a standard mediation process to follow.
Farecast Launches FareGuard
By 1.22.07
Farecast, the awesome future technology airfare prediction site, fully rolled out a new service that lets you lock in low fares.
Free International Phone Calls By Calling Iowa
By 1.12.07
Get free international calls to select countries by calling (712) 858-8094 and then dialing 011 + Country Code + Phone Number.
Walkthrough: Citi 0% Balance Transfer
By 1.9.07
Blueprint For Financial prosperity has a screen by screen walkthrough for initiating a Citibank 0% balance transfer.
CompUSA Definitely Not Staffed By Robots
By 12.27.06
Golly, artificial intelligence just keeps getting smarter and smarter, as reader Matt’s conversation today with CompUSA shows.
Vincent Gallo: Try Google Checkout
By 12.21.06
Paypal suspended Vincent Gallo’s account after he put his sperm up for auction ($50,000). For an additional $500,000, Gallo said he would inseminate in-utero.
Email Amazon’s Executive Customer Service
By 12.11.06
If you need traction on a thorny Amazon.com customer service issue, and you feel regular customer service isn’t cutting it, you can reach their executive customer service team by email, at ecr@amazon.com.
Find A Surgeon Online
By 12.8.06
Just saw this on the news (thank you, Katie Couric): HealthGrades is a website giving consumers unprecedented access to health procedure cost and hospital information.
Zillow Adds Sale Listings
By 12.7.06
Sellers can now post homes for sale on Zillow, a feature the free online home valuation service added today.
