Tipping, a venerated system of checks and balances that rewards good service and punishes bad, is under attack, or is it evolution?
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Monday Morning Reminder: It’s A Good Week To Write Us
By 5.29.06
After a record week for readers’ emails, last week was a bit slower, with about half of the previous weeks’ 27 emails. I guess we’re bleeding you guys dry. Perhaps you don’t have what it takes to be a disgruntled consumer? We’re throwing down the gauntlet: can’t you guys find something to complain about?
Monday Morning Reminder: We Love Your Emails
By 5.22.06
Last week was a big week for reader tips: we posted over 27 of the damn things. God bless you, our gentle readers, for the hundreds of dollars worth of posts we were paid for yet didn’t have to compose. We will think fondly of you when mopping up the tamali and caviar spilling forth from the innards of our champagne-boiled lobsters.
Monday Morning Reminder: Feel Good Wankery
By 5.8.06
Here at the Consumerist, we like saying this is your site a lot — the ballooing war cry that tickles an avalanche of tips and complaints from the glaciers of your consumer dissatisfaction. Not only does it allow us to get paid for your hard work, but it also happens to be a good example of feel good wankery that’s actually true. A lot of times, we think of ourselves less as editors as moderators of a consumer awareness forum where customers (pleased, homicidal or indifferent) can share their experiences with one another. And we’re always pleased when we can actually help you get satisfaction, either by putting our paws into the mess ourselves or by giving your issue a wider audience of expertise.
Better Bidding for Hotel and Airfare
By 5.5.06
A few days ago, we chatted about biddingfortravel.com,an online forum for people to share bidding strategies on travel auction sites like Hotwire and Priceline.
Fight The Power! Email Your Verizon Ringtone To Yourself.
By 5.1.06
Now that Verizon has defined the list of prohibited ring tone terms for their network, everyone who wants a ringtone of someone screaming “Sit on my face with your teabagging ruby red bag!” is going to have to learn to make their own. Jamster can no longer supply.
Sahara East Charges Service To Reactionary Idiot
By 5.1.06
You know we love listening your complaining, guys. Hell, that’s what this site is about — the masturbatory gratification of the American consumer’s own sense of entitlement! So keep sending us your complaints and we’ll keep on posting them!
Shopping in the Valley of the Amazons
By 4.28.06
Amazon Marketplace is awesome but perils lurk among the shadows of the the merchant’s stalls…
Monday Morning Reminder: We Want To Be Your Superhero
By 4.17.06
We’re going to be trying something new at the Consumerist. We’d like to help you guys out more. Whether that’s doing some research to get you a hard-to-get phone number to resolve a customer service issue, point you in the direction of consumerist services or agencies that can help you, or even interceding on your behalf. We’ve been making some stabs over the last week at doing just that and we’d like to experiment more with helping you guys out in your blackest night going forward.
Monday Morning Reminder: Complain To Us!
By 4.10.06
We can never get enough complaints. Well, we can when they are about us: every one of those huffy “I’m offended!” emails you guys send to us puts a mortal pang into the ichorous core of our black, black hearts. After all, certainly every individual has a god given right to walk out of the house every day and be confident that they will not have their delicate sensibilities ruffled. We understand that; we relate. We appreciate your concerns!
