In the case of Prius sale gone wrong, Mark tells us that he met with a lawyer this weekend. The lawyer agreed to help sue Mr. Gentile, the salesman.Dan Wolf Toyota of Naperville. Yay. Lawsuits.
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UPDATE: Sleazy Prius Deal Ends in Salesman’s Arrest Warrant
By 7.25.06
UPDATE: Sleazy Prius Deal Ends in Warrant For Salesman’s Arrest
By 7.20.06
On Monday, we posted part of Mark’s story about how he tried to return a Toyota Prius and ended up incurring the wrath of vengeful salesman who placed obscene phone calls at all hours to his wife. A warrant is now out for the salesman’s arrest.
Best Buy Vacuum Sales Clogged With Lies?
By 7.17.06
At first we were excited by Lisa’s story. It seemed that Best Buy was running a scam, tricking consumers into buying vacuums and service plans and then not fixing the vacuums when they broke. Lisa complained, “until she was blue in the face” to multiple supervisors, to no avail
Enterprise’s Cheat Sheet For Snookering You Into Car Insurance
By 5.4.06
What’s Enterprise hiding under that big brown bag their cars are wrapped in? According to this report, it could be their intent to humiliate you into buying car insurance.
Verizon Wireless: “Our Phones Won’t Last Two Years”
By 5.3.06
Straight from the source: that Verizon Wireless phone you’re planning on dropping a bill or two on won’t last two years. From Lars:
Time Warner Cable Crosses Wires, Resulting in Large, Incompetent, Electrical Discharge
By 5.2.06
Two days ago, a Texan walked into his local Time Warner office, dumped his cable box on their counter and announced he was cancelling his service.
Avis Has Compact Tact Available But Not Car…
By 4.25.06 — Updated: 9.8.16
A complaint and a tip, all in one email, what a happy day, albeit not one for Avis car rental.
RIAA Claims Sales At Six Year Low
By 4.6.06
Speaking of the RIAA, you may have seen on Friday that they released their 2005 sales figures on Friday, claiming that this was the worst year on record for the music industry. While gleefully bragging that their measures to sue elderly grandmothers and eleven year old girls has “held piracy” in check, the RIAA was quick to warn that little punks like Cassi Hunt were the real villains who had prevented the execs from trading up their Ferraris this year; “the distribution of music through internal networks on college campuses, remained ‘major factors’ in the industry’s declining sales.”
The Greatest Car Salesman You’ve Never Heard Of
By 3.26.06
Not sure what in the heyhoo is going on here but this appears to be 1970s gag reel ad attacking car dealer Ralph Williams for “raping San Francisco out of every dollar.” Funny! NSFW, for adult language and situation insinuations. [More]
Best Shop Clerks of 1965
By 3.1.06
Obsessive Consumption points us to a fantastic vid by Reader’s Digest presenting the very best check out gals of 1965. Note the intelligence in their eyes far greater than their menial task. Note the copies of Reader’s Digest in the background. A classy effort.
NYC Sales: Did you know there was an H cup?
By 2.20.06
We didn’t even know there was an H cup. That sounds dangerous.
Screw Xmas: Where Are the Good After Christmas Sales?
By 12.23.05
We’re puttering around the house today, trying to figure out if the entire internet died or just our particular forest of nodes, and realized Monday is going to be huge for shopping. Like, we may actually leave our apartment and hit some stores for some sales huge.
