Public Interest

Billion-Dollar Losing Bets

Who Are the Nation’s Biggest Suckers? Lottery Players In March 2012, AOL Daily Finance page ran an article by Rich Smith with the above title. It is well done and points out the futility of a not-so-sure thing, to the masses who bet away their discretionary income rather than invest wisely. The Billion-Dollar Bets paragraph [...]

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Pressure Pols To Act in Our Favor

Good Job Starbucks!! In a Reuters’ News Story today, seen on Yahoo at: finance.yahoo.com/news/starbucks-cups-send-fiscal-cliff-message-lawmakers-130845209–sector.html, the following comment was worth noting Chief Executive Howard Schultz (of Starbucks) is urging workers in Starbucks’ roughly 120 Washington-area shops to write “come together” on customers’ cups on Thursday and Friday, as U.S. President Barack Obama and lawmakers return to [...]

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What’s in B to C Commerce today?

Are Existing Customers Valued Anymore? I have a Triple Play “package” (Cable, Internet, & Phone) with a major supplier. My initial “Good Deal” ran out recently and I was told by an otherwise competent-sounding sales rep that the present offer shown on TV, a much lower cost one, was to attract new customers, not for [...]

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Opinions on Company Behaviors & More

Does Comcast Really Suck? At the  onset of the  2012 Thanksgiving season, I was greeted with an  incredibly poor performance  by Comcast Corp. and also noted critically some of the Corporate “inconsistencies” touted as sales incentives in the local media in the Philadelphia PA area for Black Friday sales. I was about to retire this [...]

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A New Direction

I will be moving this site in a new direction: my opinions on scams and poor business practices in the USA.  But will keep some of the links to scam and virus information as a general way to help anyone who wants to avoid or fight back against the  truly unethical and criminal excesses online [...]

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