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The Consumerist (08.02.2010 23:12h): State Investigators Find All Sorts Of Dirty Tricks At Mercury Insurance
This summer Californians will be able to vote on Proposition 17, which if passed will allow insurers to bypass some legal restrictions on how much they can charge for auto insurance. Mercury Insurance Group is a big proponent of the proposition, but maybe that's because it's been possibly sidestepping the law in recent years anyway. Hey, making it legal will just prevent another state report like the one Carla Marinucci at the San Francisco Chronicle obtained, which contains findings that Mercury "has engaged in practices that may be illegal, including deceptive pricing and discrimination against consumers such as active members ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 22:47h): Septuagenarian Couple Scammed Inns And Hotels For Four Years
The next time you stay at a bed and breakfast and you see a kindly old couple lingering in the common room after breakfast, be suspicious! The Wolffs have been scamming inns, hotels, rented homes, and bed & breakfasts since 2005, reports the Boston Globe. They offer to pay via check, and until recently--when they stayed in one place so long that they were still around when the check bounced--nobody ever thought they might be pulling a fast one. They're due in court this month for defrauding several inns over the past summer. "The Wolffs at the door" [Boston.com] [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 22:31h): Just The Violence From The Super Bowl Commercials
A very smart person has cut out everything except the violence from the Super Bowl commercials. This way you can see Tim Tebow tackle his mom without worrying about boring controversy. Enjoy. [The Daily What] [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 22:27h): Microsoft Investigating Why Songs Are Disappearing From Zune Pass
If record labels decided to pull some of their songs from the Zune Pass service in the past couple of weeks, they did a poor job telling Microsoft about it. The company seems to be as in the dark as Zune Pass subscribers about why songs, albums, or entire discographies have gone missing. Ars technica reports that a Microsoft employee wrote on a Zune forum, "We are investigating your reported missing albums indicated in this post—and will come back to you as soon as we understand why they're missing." "Microsoft investigating disappearing music from Zune Pass" [Ars Technica] [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 22:11h): Google Doesn't Want To Know How To Make Friends With Black People
Yesterday's Google super bowl ad was a cute story about a guy falling in love with a French lady told through his searches. The trouble is, they showed the autocomplete prompts and, as anyone who has ever used Google knows, the autocomplete suggestions can be, uh, kinda weird. So, of course, some the search suggestions have been edited out. Like one about making friends with black people. From AdFreak: If you look closely, you'll notice that some of the search suggestions that appear while the person types which can be notoriously bizarre have been edited out. In this ad, for ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 21:48h): Mount A Laptop To An Exercise Bike So You Can Sweat While You Work
If you're stuck to a computer all day and are getting fat because of it, you might consider making yourself a laptop shelf for your exercise bike. Apparently it's not that difficult. Whether or not it'll make you lose weight - that remains to be seen. Kind of a cute idea, though, and we love DIY crap. Careful, though. Sweat counts as liquid damage. ManMade Video How-To: Mount Your Laptop to your Exercise Equipment. [ManMade] [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 21:34h): Google Wants To Be Facebook, Facebook Wants To Be Gmail
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has plans to make Gmail "more social," according to an anonymous source. The idea is to make it easier to post links and share status updates. Meanwhile, Facebook is apparently planning a "Gmail killer." From Slate: If the rumors are true, Facebook Mail will be accessible without logging into your Facebook account, and your e-mail address would consist of your Facebook username @facebook.com. According to the post, the product is officially called “Project Titan” within the company, but it’s also been optimistically dubbed a Gmail killer. The grass is always greener. Which ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 19:25h): Rat Planter Pleads Guilty To Restaurant Extortion
Finding frogs in your weight watchers food or snakes in your TGIF or mice in your Pepsi is one thing and alerting the authorities for infomational purposes is one thing, but please don't plant rats in your soup in the hopes of extorting a half-million. Because you will be caught, like Debbie Miller of Wisconsin. Here brilliant scheme was defeated by a microwave. [restaurant owners] The Dollers kept the rat after the extortion attempt. Insurance investigators sent it for testing and determined that not only wasn’t a wild rat, but rather a domestic, white rat that had been cooked in ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 18:49h): We Hope Your Mail Isn't On This Postal Truck
...Because that sh*t is stuck. A Gothamist reader took this photo of a postal truck stuck at a crazy angle under an overpass on 10th ave in NYC. Whoopsies! Postal Truck Lodged Under Overpass [Gothamist] [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 18:18h): Bank of America Screws Even Ex-Employees Of 21 Years On Mortgages
How many different ways can you screw a man? Vince couldn't make his Bank of America mortgage, because they fired him after 21 years of service in the due diligence department. Even after he did a short sale 5 months ago, Bank of America still hasn't cleared it off their books. Now the illegal debt collection calls start. Is new CEO Brian Moynihan powerless to stop his own company from shaking down its own employees? Let's find out! Another problem is there was still a remainder Vince owed after the short sale. He's been trying to pay it down with ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 17:59h): Disney Store Refuses Small Credit Card Purchase Because You Left Your ID In The Car
Reader Terry is annoyed because the Disney Store refused to sell his family $8.50 worth of stuff unless he went out and got his wife's ID from the car. I had received an email from Disney about a "Story Time with Mickey" event at 1pm & 4pm in the Disney stores. After church we headed across town and went to the Disney store in the [redacted] mall. We have Boy/Girl twins that will be 4 in March. We will be at Disneyland for their Birthday. As usual We were in the store for around 45 minutes, and during this time ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 16:59h): Ex-Merrill Lynch Boss John Thain Is A CEO Again
After successfully redecorating his office, merging Merrill Lynch with Bank of America, and then getting fired -- John Thain is once again a CEO. This time he'll be heading up a recently-bankrupt commercial and consumer finance company, CIT. This is a very interesting company to me," Mr. Thain added. "CIT's primary business is lending to small and midsize companies, and if the U.S. economy is going to continue to improve, this is where we need to focus." He will be paid a $500,000 salary and receive restricted shares that, if available for sale today, would have a value of $5.5 ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 16:51h): Looking For A New Snack? Try Taquitos.net
The Daily Beast has published a short profile of Jeremy Selwyn, a web developer in Massachusetts who runs the snack food review website Taquitos.net. Selwyn started the site about ten years ago, and now he has nearly 4.5 thousand different entries on various chips, candies, pretzels, and whatever else can be combined with salt and flavored powder. Naturally I immediately checked out the "Worst Chips Ever" section, which includes an awful lot of sea creature flavored abominations. Apparently sour cream and clam isn't a good idea for a chip. "The Snack Critic" [The Daily Beast] [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 16:46h): Bundle Lets You Spy On What Your Neighbors Buy
Why should banks have all the fun monitoring consumers' purchases? Bundle is a nifty service that lets you drill down and see what people are buying in your hood. Essentially, it's an appealing graphical interface plopped on top of the info warehouses provided by the All-Seeing-Eye of Citi and other 3rd-party data harvesters. Just plug in the age, household type, income and geographical location you want to explore and let shopping peeping begin. For instance, dudes in my area are spend an average of $141 on electronics, mostly from Best Buy, Apple, and Tiger Direct. [Bundle] [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 16:29h): Landing Gear Not Good Place For Discount Airfare, Dead Man Finds
A man was found dead inside the landing gear of Delta airplane landing in Tokyo enroute from New York. Doctors speculated that he froze to death and had a shortage of oxygen when the plane reached over 30,000 feet. Sheesh, we know the seats are cramped but this is ridiculous. What happens when you climb into an airplane's fuselage and it takes off? This clip from "1000 Ways To Die" explains: [AFP] Thanks to GitEmSteveDave! [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (08.02.2010 00:00h): HP EECB Leads To Complete Refund For Defective 2-Year-Old Laptop
When Rick's 2-year-old laptop failed for the second time due, he did not roll over and buy a new laptop or pay $400 for the repairs. This particular model of laptop had been recalled due to this very flaw, and that was not acceptable to Rick. He fought back, and shares his tale of triumph. I love my HP computers. Over the past 9 years, I’ve bought ten of them and all of them have worked wonderfully. With one exception. I bought a heavily-customized dv6000 laptop from HP in 2007 for $1000. Fifteen months later, the motherboard failed. It was ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (07.02.2010 22:00h): Group Pledges To Buy No Clothing For A Year, Somehow Survive
The Great American Apparel Diet is not, as it seems at first glance, what you have to follow in order to look good in a bizarre adult romper. No, it's a pledge that a group of women have taken to not buy any new clothing for one year. What have they learned? That people tend to buy a lot more stuff than they really need. As one participant noted, re-evaluating and fixing up what's already in your wardrobe is something that few people bother with when the option to buy something shiny and new is there instead. Stacya Silverman: What ... [Link] [Cache]
scams - Blogs (07.02.2010 21:43h): Ken Stucyznski
Please note that the user "TheTruth2326" has libeled me and others on his blog, instead of posting a discussion that can be responded to. This individual is acting out of retaliation: Because no one has ever accused me of being a scammer and have se few dissatisfied customers over many years, I expect this person is William Franklin aka Andy Stephens, who has done business under countless company names and numbers. His motive? William Franklin is the subject of a consumer warning site I helped maintain for years, http://WilliamFranklinFraud.Com. I tracked his activity, mostly through being contacted by other alleged ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (07.02.2010 20:00h): Cox Accidentally Offers Everyone In Arizona A Free PlayStation 3
Christopher writes about a promotion from Cox that sounded pretty great. The cable company and ISP offered a free Playstation 3 slim to customers who either signed up for a new account or upgraded to faster broadband. The problem with such a great offer? People tend to tell their friends. And those friends tend to call Cox to see if they can get in on the deal, too. Cox in Arizona has had an offer out since January for a FREE Playstation 3 slim in exchange for either a signup for a new broadband account or b upgrade to the ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (07.02.2010 18:00h): Best Buy Sells Shattered TV In Time For Super Bowl Party
On this, the holiest of all American TV-watching days, we'd like to share with you the horrific story of a Florida family whose Super Bowl viewing party will be a lot less intense than they had planned. The new, expensive HDTV they purchased from Best Buy was somehow shattered inside its box, and the retailer claims that it's the family's fault. A Best Buy employee loaded the box in their vehicle, and they brought the TV home only to discover that its beautiful 50-inch screen was destroyed. The family says that Best Buy blames them for the damage, and they ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (07.02.2010 16:00h): Bottle Of Sprite Includes Free Inch-Long Cockroach
Coca-Cola in China has been fined 2.05 yuan 30 cents after a customer found a cockroach just over an inch long inside a bottle of Sprite. At least it wasn't Coke or another cola, because then the customer wouldn't have noticed until the bug was in his mouth. A man surnamed Gao, who bought a box of soft drinks containing 24 bottles of Sprite on June 23, 2007 from a supermarket in Beijing, found a three cm long cockroach-like insect inside one bottle of the popular drink. Gao took the company to Daxing court in 2008, asking for 5.1 yuan ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (07.02.2010 14:00h): 12 Insane But Awesome Things You Can Actually Buy Online
There are lots of weird and amazing things that you can buy on the Internet. Cracked rounded twelve of the craziest things that you can order online. Most of them seem like things that someone might order if they are an aspiring supervillain. Or have so much money they don't know what to do with it all. Or both. We'd have to say that #8, the Water Walking Ball pictured , provides the worst value for your money, costing $500 and providing you with only the ability to run around on the surface of water like some sort of deranged ... [Link] [Cache]
scams - Blogs (07.02.2010 08:47h): Richard A. Barnes, St. Charles, MO
A few months ago, we have hired the most deviant individual you can ever imagine. Richard A. Barnes, 3601 Sherman Park Drive, St. Chales, MO 229-88-3643 , introduced himself a co-owner of a training company, namely BioMed Resources. After verification, this company is located in Montreal QC, Canada and Mr. Barnes has never been employed there. In addition, we found that Mr. Barnes had not only invented but also omitted a significant part of his work history. He has been fired from all former jobs: LungRx United Therapeutics , Axcan Pharma Inc. and another pharmaceutical sales contract company. Although he ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (07.02.2010 00:00h): Oregon Woman Sues McDonalds Over Too-Hot Coffee
A woman in Oregon has sued her local McDonald's franchisee after spilling hot coffee from the drive-thru window on herself. She claims that the coffee was too hot and the lid too loose, and seeks $7,500 in damages. According to the suit, "as it was being handed to her by an employee of the defendant, the plaintiff took the cup of coffee and the plastic top fell off and spilled very hot coffee on plaintiff's upper right leg..." She went into "nervous shock," endured pain and has scarring. She seeks $7,182 for her pain and suffering, plus another $318 for ... [Link] [Cache]
The Consumerist (06.02.2010 22:00h): FDA May Update Serving Sizes To Reflect How Much People Actually Eat
As anyone who has tried to carefully count calories knows, the serving sizes on food packages don't have much to do with reality. The FDA has finally realized that putting accurate serving sizes on labels might have an effect on the amount of food Americans cram into our mouths in one sitting. “If you put on a meaningful portion size, it would scare a lot of people,” said Barry Popkin, a nutrition professor at the University of North Carolina. “They would see, ‘I’m going to get 300 calories from that, or 500 calories.’ ” The problem is important because the ... [Link] [Cache]
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