When Sling Media finally released their iPhone app last week, they conveniently turned off access to older Slingbox devices in order to force customers to buy newer models. As a gesture—only a gesture, nothing more—of their gratitude toward existing customers who supported them by already buying Slingboxes, they offered a $50 credit toward the purchase of a newer model.
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![American Express Cancels Your Card Right Before You Were Supposed To Get Your $500 Rebate](../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/amex.jpg?w=158&h=118&crop=1)
American Express Cancels Your Card Right Before You Were Supposed To Get Your $500 Rebate
Andrea, an American Express member for over 20 years, is upset because AmEx canceled her cash-back card two weeks before her $500 rebate check was supposed to arrive, and declared the rebate forfeit.
![White House To Citi: Don't Even Think About Buying Luxury Jets With Taxpayer Money](../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/obamafix_01.jpg?w=158&h=210&crop=1)
White House To Citi: Don't Even Think About Buying Luxury Jets With Taxpayer Money
Yesterday, we wrote that Citigroup had decided to spend $50 million of its bailout money on a French luxury jet to ferry execs around town. The White House was not pleased about this.
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Bailed Out Citigroup Stimulates French Economy By Purchasing $50 Million Corporate Jet
With $45 billion in taxpayer funds burning a hole in its pocket, Citigroup is purchasing a $50 million Dassault Falcon 7X, according to the New York Post. Apparently none of the existing jets that ferried execs to Washington to ask for bailout funds was ironic enough.
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Lots Of "European" Luxury Goods Aren't Made In Europe
Look, we’ve got nothing against China, a manufacturing phenomenon that produces quality, lead-free products every day of the year—but when a luxury item like, say, a Prada travel bag is stamped “made in China” even as a Prada spokesman insists it’s handmade in Italy, it seems more than a little dishonest.
![Rent-A-Center More Like Ripoff Center](../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/310229406_fd8175b8a8.jpg?w=220&h=225&crop=1)
Rent-A-Center More Like Ripoff Center
JLP over at AllFinancialMatters checked into renting furniture to own with Rent-A-Center. For a sofa and loveseat with a retail price of $1,048, a renter would pay $26.99 per week for 104 weeks, adding up to a whopping $2,806.96!
![Circuit City's Firedog Charges $169 For 'Home Theater Installation', Doesn't Hook Up HDMI Cable](../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/firedog.jpg?w=300&h=130&crop=1)
Circuit City's Firedog Charges $169 For 'Home Theater Installation', Doesn't Hook Up HDMI Cable
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