Category: Retail

Michael really has no complaints against CDW. He’s just amused at the size of the box that they sent his serial adapter (that small metal thing at bottom right) in. He writes: The item, the serial adapter was inside the small box with the typical antistatic foam that electronics are usually cushioned in. That smaller box was then inside the larger CDW box with a few unpictured “air pillows”, some of which were deflated. No complaints against CDW, just showing the packaging….

Sometimes banner ads online promise a great price, but do not reflect current prices, or actual reality. That’s the sad lesson that reader Ricky writes that he learned recently after clicking on a banner ad for Overstock.com. See, the banner have advertised products for sale at Overstock.com and bore the company’s logo, but the company did not produce the ad, and the prices are not real. He wrote to the company: Hello, I was researching iPod docks to purchase this morning and came across several models I was interested in. One in particular was a Philips DCP851/37x (Overstock #11676281). I…

In a legal decision that could have a ripple effect on the digital download market, a British court has ruled that record label EMI can not sell songs from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album as individual downloads or ringtones. The band’s attorneys had argued that the album, one of the biggest sellers in rock history, is only meant to be taken as a whole and that EMI’s selling of individual downloads violated a clause in their contract intended to “preserve the artistic integrity” of the album. Additionally, the judge ordered EMI to reimburse Pink Floyd approximately $90,000…