Archive for the ‘Consumer Battles’ Category
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Hewlett-Packard Hates the Environment and Your Wallet
… or maybe they just have it out for me. I’m not sure. Read on and let me know in the comments. This story starts when I as a junior in high school. Realizing that I’d have to write a number of papers in college, I went out an bought one of the best laser [...]
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Fandango Bucks: Not a Fan
Ever have to buy a gift for a person that has everything? That’s my mom. So this holiday season, I thought for a long time of what to get her. Remembering that she enjoys going to movies, I decided some movie gift certificates would be appropriate. I decided to go to the first movie website [...]
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“Debt Crisis in America” & JCR Advertising are Evil
I don’t know if you’ve seen the Debt Crisis in America commercials on television or not, but when I saw them, I thought, “This is a whole new level of scummy advertising.” If you haven’t seen them, you can watch two of them here. I can’t decide which one is more scummy. Here are some [...]
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Should Pottery Barn Give Us a Refund?
A few weeks back our dog Jake decided to rip into some cushions on our patio furniture. They were too far gone by the time we noticed. As a result, we’ve been looking for new chaise lounge cushions. You’d think they’d be easier to find, but everything has been fairly expensive or not the right [...]
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Sprint Rebates Suck
On Friday, I came home to following letter: This letter is in response to the Palm Pre that I bought and activated within the Sprint store – an hour after it became available. How dare they say that I haven’t activated in time? Without causing injury to other Sprint customers it would have have been [...]
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How to Lose a Potential Customer in One Email
Last week, I featured a guest post of How to Lose a Loyal Customer in Three Easy Calls. This week, I’d like to post one quick way to lose a customer in a single e-mail. Over the last month, my wife and I have been looking for places to rent on Craigslist (which lead me [...]
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How to Lose a Loyal Customer in Three Easy Calls
Today’s guest post comes from The Casual Observer. For the first time, I’m highlighting a blog that isn’t a personal finance blog. Why? His outstanding satirical piece on guerrilla economic warfare caught my attention. You can subscribe to his RSS Feed here. My wife has been a long time subscriber to TV Guide. Judging by [...]
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Bundled Football Tickets, Video Game Systems, Music, and DVDs… Arrrg!
Note To Businesses: Consumers Don’t like Forced Bundling of Products With football season coming up, my thoughts have started to slowly turn to blocking, blind-side blitzes, and blackouts. Recently tickets for next seasons AFC Championship rematch, New England Patriots vs. San Deigo Chargers went on sale. Though it’s a mere 8-hour drive, I was prepared [...]
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Will Luggage America be Evil?
This post is very much a rant. If you don’t like reading rants, and I don’t blame you, it may be wise to move on to the next article. Last month, I went on vacation. My cheap luggage from 1996 died and I bought a replacement – an American Airline branded set from Luggage America [...]
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Product Safety vs. Privacy
David Horowitz authors the very popular Fight Back! website. As a consumer advocate we have something in common. He writes for the Costco Connection, a magazine that is sent to Costco members. Most of the time, his one page article is the highlight of the magazine. July’s issue is no different. The typical article is [...]
