• Sportswear retailer Altrec.com has an ‘Extreme Savings‘ event, where you can wail the most wicked gnarly discounts from 30 to 60% off regular prices. Brands include The North Face, Burton, and Patagonia.
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Snag Sweet Tech Deals
By 2.13.06
Scoring consumer tech bargains has gotten harder but are still there for the savy, reports The New York Times.
New Jersey to Wal-Mart: Your Look Sucks. Change It.
By 2.13.06
In Freehold Township, New Jersey, Wal-Mart’s has been forced to clamp down on its ugly, ugly decor:
Target’s CSI: Minneapolis
By 2.10.06
We really enjoy it when readers send in not only tips, but punch lines, as well. Everything from this sentence on out is totally Friday Quote Madness.
Fleshbot’s Guide to Valentine’s Sexy Gift Guides
By 2.9.06
Our sexy sister site Fleshbot—yes, she’s easy; no, we don’t mind—has put together their ‘Horny Valentine’s Gift Guide Guide.’ In case you need help dissecting the title, please let us assist you before you click the link.
Ask The Consumerist: Ordering Custom Pants Online?
By 2.9.06
But it looks like there are a lot of places online that will do it. I figured that before I went off half cocked and ordered a pair sight unseen, that the Consumerist (or its readers) might have some insight into which services would be good or worth checking out.”
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 2.9.06
• Aeropostale is running a clearance sale on clothing for both men and women. You could even get a stuff bear, though only your psychiatrist knows why you’d want one.
Five Tips for Buying Dell
By 2.9.06
DealHack’s Dell Buyer’s Guide might not be spanking new, but they’ve got a lot of practical advice on picking out a new PC or laptop. While it’s probably worth visiting the article itself—it’s a lot more in depth—here’s the gist:
In Your Darkest Ages, Amazon Cares
By 2.8.06
I think maybe they meant to use “grief” as a keyword, not greif, though maybe there’s an argument to be made about the similarities of widowhood and medieval trade…”
FedEx Clamps Down On Online Cigarette Retailers
By 2.8.06
Bad news for you Internet-shopping tobacco monkeys out there: Fed-Ex is clamping down on online tobacco merchants.
Online Review Site for Video Game Prostitutes
By 2.8.06
Second Life is a sprawling online community in which subscribers, wearied by the employment and consumerism of their unmagical lives, log-on to a virtual realm where they can engage in such activities as holding virtual jobs and buying virtual goods. It’s post modern escapism at its most pathetic: at least those belching, LCD-irradiated sows pretending to be a virtual elf in other online games are doing something they can’t do in real life.
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 2.8.06
• Top Secret Threadless Sale! Buy 3 or more tees, get them all for $10 each. (Thanks, Garret!)
Beer Half-Life Debunked As Coors Light Propaganda
By 2.7.06
Last week, we posted about the obscure hieroglyphics scrawled on the bottom of each beer bottle, marking its expiration date for shopkeepers who know the code but hiding it from consumers looking for the freshest pint possible. Even when we posted it, we were a bit confused about the story: doesn’t some beer actually have a legible expiration date printed on the label? And that article was definitely the first time we’d ever heard that all beer had a clearly defined shelf-life, equal to the shelf-life of all other brews.
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 2.7.06
• Amazon continues the inexplicable price drops flash memory cards, with the SanDisk 1GB Ultra II Secure Digital card for $59, the SanDisk 1GB Ultra II CompactFlash card for $60, and the SanDisk 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo card for $59.
Sexy European Moms Sell Toothpaste
By 2.6.06
Speaking of naked Europeans working their bodies to sell you their products, check out this absolutely astonishing ad for Beverly Hills Toothpaste.
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 2.6.06
• Amazon has the SanDisk 2GB Ultra II Secure Digital Memory Card for $88, shipped free. We’re considering buying it, despite the fact that SD is our least-used memory card format.
