Venditoris

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 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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]