Christina is broke as a joke. Wells Fargo doesn’t think this is funny and decides to shut down her account for having no money in it and no activity on it. No big whoop, she’ll just open another account. She does this twice. Then, whups! Those accounts were never closed! And we’re charging you fees because they were actually fee-based savings accounts! And you’re in collections! Good times, let them roll: [More]
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FiOS Is Fast Except When You Can't Upload Anything
By 10.26.10
Matt hasn’t been able to upload anything for 10 days now which is a bit of a problem when you have a home business built around uploading stuff for clients. [More]
The 4,000 Calorie 3-Pound Mondo Gummy Worm
By 10.26.10
The most truly frightening candy this Halloween doesn’t have razor blades or metal flakes in it, but 4,000 calories. [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]
All Mega Pops Removed From Shelves, Foreign Particle Concern
By 10.25.10
After a scare about metal flakes in Mega Pops lollipops, Colombina has asked store owners to remove all Mega Pops from their shelves as they investigate the candy for foreign particles. [More]
CableOne Tells Fire Victims To Pay For Incinerated Cable Gear
By 10.22.10
The fire raged through 62 units of the Galleria apartment homes in Fargo, ND. Flames shot out windows and black smoke billowed across the sky. No one was hurt but 150 residents are without homes. A now, their cable company wants them to pay for the equipment damaged in the blaze, between $500 to $1,000. [More]
Flight Delays Cost Passengers $16.7 B Per Year
By 10.22.10
Delayed flights aren’t just annoying, they’re expensive. A new FAA-funded study finds that they cost passengers $16.7 billion per year. That’s a lot of bags of peanuts. [More]
Phone Co. Wakes You Up At 6:48 In The Morning To Ask How Their Botched Service Call Went
By 10.22.10
Tom was woken up at 6:48 in the morning by an automated call from his telephone company. They wanted him to take a “how was our service?” survey. [More]
Metal Flakes Found In Lollipops
By 10.22.10
Better check your kids bags for Colombina Mega Pops this Halloween. A test of the lollipops found tiny metal flakes in them. Family Dollar has recalled the pops, which were also sold at a few other discount stores, and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has issued a warning. [More]
Supermarket Threatens To Fire Slowest Cashier, Destroys Brand Image
By 10.22.10
Steve and his wife were checking out at the supermarket when they noticed something odd about the cashier packing his bags. She was ramming all his groceries like she was trying to repair a levy in a flood. [More]
Shoplifter Forced To Dress As Bert, Carry "I Got Caught Shoplifting At Halloween Express" Sign
By 10.21.10
Talk about a punishment that suits the crime. [More]
Subway Says Your Sandwich Is "Cheating"
By 10.21.10
A Subway sandwich artist told Chet that the sandwich he’s been ordering for years is “illegitimate.” [More]
Town Passes Anti Black Friday Rampage Ordinance
By 10.21.10
Finally, one town has taken a stand against the madness and said, “no more.” [More]
Walmart Worker Gets Run Over Trying To Stop Robbery
By 10.21.10
They’re not paying you minimum wage to be a hero. [More]
Comcast Installs Cable By Draping It Across Yard
By 10.21.10
Reading this story, I imagine that on September 1st, the Comcast worker was standing there on the lawn, looking at the cable he had just installed for the two octogenarians. The cable went from the cable box to the house. It lay on the yard like a large, immobile black anaconda. He crossed his arms and said, “Yep, that looks about right,” and drove away to go eat a sandwich. The cable has now been lying out there for almost 2 months. [More]
AT&T Relinquishes Vicegrip On Ex-Customer's $500
By 10.20.10
Consumerist reader Teighlor and her boyfriend tried to sign up for AT&T U-verse but after 20 days of missed appointments and it never getting installed, they returned the equipment and canceled the service. AT&T then deducted $500 from their account for unreturned equipment. [More]
Frog Found In Frozen Veggies
By 10.19.10
A Michigan couple is croaking about an unusual, tiny, hitchhiker they found in their bag of frozen vegetables they bought at the Meijer supermarket. [More]
JetBlue CFO Gives Out Free Tickets Mid-Flight
By 10.19.10
Consumerist reader Tracy was flying JetBlue this Saturday when an announcement came over the intercom saying there was a “special guest” onboard. It was JetBlue CFO Ed Barnes! Big whoop, said the passengers, until the flight attendant added, “and the CFO is feeling really generous so we are going to have two people in the front row randomly pick a number and a letter and the person sitting in that seat will win a free JetBlue roundtrip ticket anywhere Jetblue flies.” [More]
