Reader Wandering Indian Monk wrote us in, linking to a little tip he wrote on his blog about how you might be able to reduce the interest you are paying on your credit card debt.
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Monday Morning Reminder: Write Us!
By 3.27.06
Just our Monday Morning Reminder that we want your tips, experiences, complaints, comments, suggestions, criticisms, naked pictures, death threats, bank account details… just about anything you’re willing to send us over at tips@consumerist.com.
Never Sneak into a Movie Again
By 3.23.06
Enter your zip code and Doublefeaturefinder finds movies near you scheduled to play back-to-back.
Bullfighter Fights Corporate Bullshit
By 3.16.06
Dear Corporate Executives — please learn how to write. Having initially been a greasy, protoplasmic ooze poured into the mold of a stiff, starched suit, then imbued — Golem-like — with the spark of meaningless corporate business speak, you soulless automatons never seem to realize how meaningless phrases like “maximize initiatives” and “establish paradigm, COB” are to those of us who sprang forth from human loins.
Free Coffee At Starbucks Today
By 3.15.06
We don’t usually say this… but go to Starbucks today. Grit your teeth as an obsequious minimum-wage hipster expects you to know the distinction between cup sizes written in three different languages, all meaning “big”. Resist the temptation to screw your thumbs through said hipster’s eye sockets. Because at least that coffee will be free today.
Monday Morning Reminder: Consumerist Wants Your Tips
By 3.13.06
Just a reminder that if you’ve found a story you’d like to see here, have an anecdote (bad or good) about a company or just want to give feedback about the tone and direction of this site, The Consumerist wants to hear from you.
Software Syncs Crappy Non-iPods with iTunes
By 3.6.06
We don’t have an iPod. We have a first-generation Dell DJ. Compared to the design of the opalescent obelisk ubiquitously clutched in every hipster’s hand, the Dell DJ is striking. It looks exactly as if Soviet super-scientists invented a time machine, traveled to the future, copped on to the inherently socialist nature of the music trading scene, and — traveling back to their own era — attempted to make their own mp3 player out of a two-inch plate of Soviet-grade titanium tank plating. Fifty years later, Dell.ru found about a million of these in an abandoned Muscovite silo, dusted them off, formatted “Lenin’s Greatest Hits” off the hard drive and sold them as is, to idiots like probably-not-you but definitely-royal-‘we’.
How-To Run A Viral Marketing Campaign
By 3.2.06
We’re not as hip as our editor, Ben Whatsisface [ed: Popken!]. How could we be? We live in Dublin, for Chrissakes. We don’t have a crewcut, we don’t have glasses. By extension, we probably don’t have his panache with the ladies, nor his disestablishmentarianist fervor.
How To Lower Your Cable Bill And/Or Self-Respect
By 2.16.06
Our luscious sisters over at Lifehacker have called our attention to this advice on lowering your cable bill:
The Secret Life of Jetblue Miles
By 2.15.06
mile redemption phone system, as there’s no online version, getting told by the phone system that call volume was too high and they should visit the website, waiting on hold for over thirty minutes, and speaking with multiple reps over two days, they wrenched out quite a few hidden details. Among them:
Shophacks: Use Excel to Ensnare Your Customer Service Reps in Their Own Nefarious Web
By 2.15.06
Like a crime scene investigator catching a serial killer, you keep meticulous records of every call you make to customer service. And then you lose the slips of paper (maybe you even scribbled on the backs of receipts, hm?). Instead of tossing your gumshoes, screw on your green plastic visor and bust out the Excel.
Consumerist Advice Needed: American Cell Phone Plans
By 2.14.06
John Brownlee here, yet again slipping out of The Consumerist royal ‘we’ to the chagrin of that credit-garnering overlord, Joel Johnson.
Monday Morning Reminder: tips@consumerist.com
Just a Monday Morning reminder that Gawker has two starving bloggers to feed in The Consumerist and we simply can not feed both ourselves and Ben Popken’s Eraserhead-like progeny without hearing from our readers.