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Top 10 Business Debacles Of 2007
By 12.31.07
Maybe we’re just getting better at the job but it seems like the debacles this year were bigger and more scandalous than last year. Every time we turned around, there was another deadly product or breach of consumer rights or act of malfeasance. Here’s our roundup of the top 10 worst moments in business this year… [More]
Congress Actually Passed Consumer-Friendly Legislation In 2007
By 12.31.07
Members of Congress introduced 7,440 bills this year and almost none of them help consumers in any meaningful way. Less than fifteen bills this session snagged our editorial love. Most cleared only one chamber, and some still haven’t earned a hearing—but maybe when Congress returns they’ll lob a few of our favorites towards Pennsylvania Ave.
Top Posts Of The Week
By 12.28.07
“Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was surprised to hear that his investigation failed to end Best Buy’s bait-and-switch, telling the L.A. Times: “We thought Best Buy had addressed this. That’s what they said to us. Apparently that’s not the case.”
Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds
By 12.21.07
Here are five choice photos from The Consumerist Flickr Pool. That’s a place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click “Join Group?” up on the top right, and start hitting “send to group” on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.
Top Posts Of The Week
By 12.21.07
“The Tom Ford ad has always confused us: the product is a cologne that a man would wear to (theoretically) smell more attractive to a woman–yet the ad implies the cologne smells exactly like a woman’s nethers, which means the man would attract other men–other straight men?”
Hot Consumerist Forums Threads
By 12.17.07
Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds
By 12.14.07
Gosh, you guys take some nice pictures! Here are five choice photos from the Consumerist Flickr Pool this week. That’s a place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click “Join Group?” up on the top right, and start hitting “send to group” on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.
Top Posts Of The Week
By 12.14.07
“In the meantime, since fate has conspired against me as well, I will continue the process of gathering material for my novel, (also known as staying employed.) This means that I will certainly be on hand to help you find exactly the right Sharpie should you wish to persevere in your brilliant endeavor.”
Top Posts Of The Week
By 12.7.07
“Innocents fired… Liars kept jobs… Store hard drives seized… Pants shat…”
Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds
By 12.1.07
Here’s six choice photos from the Consumerist Flickr Pool this week. That’s a place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click “Join Group?” up on the top right, and start hitting “send to group” on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.
Top Posts Of The Week
By 11.30.07
Comcast says, “It is also the NFL that decided to take these eight games off of free broadcast television and to try to enrich themselves at the expense of their fans by creating a multi-billion dollar asset called the NFL Network.”
Hot Consumerist Forums Threads
By 11.28.07
