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Worst Company In America: Home Depot VS Citibank
By 3.30.09
Did the Home Depot not improve your home? Did Citibank mess up your mortgage? Which is worse?
Worst Company In America: Verizon VS Sprint
By 3.30.09
Which phone giant will taste your fury? Did FiOS burn down your house? Did Sprint’s wandering CEO step on your toes?
Worst Company In America: Apple VS United Healthcare
By 3.27.09
Do pricey, pretty computers have a dark side? Or will you choose a health care company that insures 70 million individuals nationwide? Who will feel your wrath?
Worst Company In America: Ticketmaster VS Time Warner Cable
By 3.27.09
A cable company moving toward metered broadband — or the master of concert tickets… you make the call.
Worst Company In America: Best Buy VS T Mobile
By 3.26.09
An international cellphone giant VS the big blue monster… what is your whim?
Worst Company In America: Walmart VS HP
By 3.26.09
A controversial retailer VS a computer company with a black hole for a warranty repair operation. Which will you choose?
Worst Company In America: Peanut Corporation Of America VS American Express
By 3.25.09
We’re doing two a day in the first round, people. It’s madness! Stretch out your quads and get ready for #16 Amex VS #17 Peanut Corporation of America.
Worst Company In America: Target VS AIG
By 3.25.09
Here we go, folks. Your first match-up of the 2009 season. Tie your sneakers and put on your gym clothes.
Behold The 2009 Worst Company In America Bracket!
By 3.23.09
Your nominations are in and the teams have been seeded, all that’s left to do is vote! Without further ado, the Official WCIA Committee would like to present… The 2009 Worst Company In America bracket!
Submit Your Nominations For 2009 Worst Company In America Contest
By 3.16.09
It’s that time of year again, folks. Brackets, Brackets, Brackets. Please help us out by emailing your nominations to us a tips@consumerist.com. Put “WCIA” in your subject or your nomination will not count. Please behave yourselves and nominate one company per email address. Nominated companies should provide goods or services to consumers. Thank you, and may God bless the United States of America.
Is Last.fm Sharing User Data With The RIAA?
By 2.22.09
TechCrunch has published a damning rumor accusing the social music site Last.fm of helping the RIAA find users who downloaded leaked copies of U2’s new album. Relying on a tip, TechCrunch claims that the Last.fm, a subsidiary of CBS, handed over a “giant dump of user data to track down people who are scrobbling unreleased tracks.”
Countrywide To Fixed Rate Customer: Your Mortgage Is About To Adjust!
By 10.28.08
Countrywide either doesn’t know, or doesn’t care that reader Graham has a fixed rate mortgage, because they keep sending him “notices” that his mortgage is about to “adjust.”
Ticketmaster Is Evil And Must Die
By 10.12.08 — Updated: 6.19.16
Ticketmaster is an evil monopoly that steals cash from defenseless consumers. They are infinitely more evil than their hated 30% surcharge would suggest, and they must be destroyed.
Homeowners Sue Countrywide!
By 8.25.08
Who isn’t suing Countrywide lately? Phuong Cat Le from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer says that a group of homeowners are now suing Countrywide, alleging that the lender steered them toward high-risk loans without disclosing the inherent risks.
Throwdown! Connecticut Sues Countrywide For Deceptive Lending
By 8.7.08
Someone ring a bell because Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has just sued Countrywide (and, of course, Bank of America) for deceptive lending practices. They’re seeking damages of $100,000 for each violation, as well as “up to $5,000 per violation of state consumer protection laws, disgorgement of all ill-gotten gains and an order compelling the company to cease its illegal practices.”
Former Countrywide Employee Arrested For Stealing, Selling Customer Identities
By 8.4.08
The FBI has announced that a former Countrywide employee and his accomplice were arrested on charges related to “illegal access of computers containing personal information,” and “illegal sale of the data.” A criminal complaint filed last Friday alleges that one of the men, Rene L. Rebollo Jr., a senior financial analyst for Countrywide Home Loan’s subprime mortgage division (who was let go in July), had been harvesting data from Countrywide’s computers for the past two years — downloading and storing the information on personal flash drives.
Countrywide Home Loans Wins Consumerist's Worst Company In America Contest
By 7.28.08
Duhn duhn da duhn! Envelope please… yes, America has voted and… the Worst Company in America award goes to…. Countrywide Home Loans (now owned by Bank of America)! The final vote was…
