Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
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Problems With American Airlines Credit Card
This post is going to be bit of rant, due to very poor customer service. Many people probably don’t like reading rants, but in extreme cases (like this one), I find it necessary to document the case for those interested. Maybe it just makes me feel better that someone from the company may see it [...]
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Major League Baseball and The Onion of Evil
I made fairly sizable purchase last Friday. I called up Comcast, my cable operator and said, “Yes, I’d like to sign up for the MLB Extra Innings package.” My wife and I will pay $160 to watch the next six month of our favorite team, the Boston Red Sox from our San Francisco area home. [...]
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Does Anything Come With Electronics Nowadays?
A couple of weeks ago, I got a HP OfficeJet from Costco (similar to this model). I was a little surprised that an item that costs hundreds of dollars made a big point (a full one-foot sq sticker) that it included it’s own USB cable. I was pretty shocked by this, especially since the cost [...]
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Major League Baseball Stole My Money…
As some of my regular readers know, I’m a huge Red Sox fan (which hasn’t been easy this past week), living in Northern California. If I want to see Red Sox games, I have three choices… a $160 (or so) cable subscription, a Slingbox, or MLB.TV’s service to watch the games over the Internet. I’ve [...]
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Why I May Never Buy a Toyota
I went to see the new Harry Potter this weekend. My wife (a huge Harry Potter fan) and I caught an 8PM showing (an important fact) on a Saturday night. There were some decent previews, but the one thing that stuck in my mind was one commercial. It was a black and white cartoon where [...]
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How Much is Customer Service Costing You? (Part 2)
(If you haven’t already, reading part one first will be helpful. A quick summary is that I’ve run into a couple of customer support problems this week.) The other problem that I’ve had is with my cell phone, the Palm Treo 700P. I’ve had Palm Treo’s from when the Sprint Treo 300 came out. We [...]
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How Much is Customer Service Costing You? (Part 1)
I’m putting the Guest Post Wednesday on hiatus for a little while. It’s kind of like the McRib sandwich. It’s good when it’s around, but you can’t have it all the time. Instead, I’ll ask how much time does customer service service eat up and what’s it costing you? In two parts today, I’ll talk [...]
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Updating Daylight Savings Time (Microsoft “Cancel or Allow”)
I just woke up and remembered that it was the new updated daylight savings time. Since I’m Lazy, I didn’t install the patch on my computers for the daylight savings headache. I thought it would be a quick and easy download. I should have known better. I was given the official Microsoft knowledgebase link by [...]
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Just won $390 Million in the Lottery? Maybe not so quick…
The news is hopping with word that the $390 Mega Millions has been won. There’s always a big rush to buy tickets when the jackpot reaches these amazingly high numbers. I never understood why. It seems like the odds of splitting the lottery just goes up when that happens. And that’s exactly what happened this [...]
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Personal Finance Blogging Pet Peeves #2 (or #X tips that will save you $Y)
If you’ve read a lot of finance blogs, you’ll see articles that give you 30 ways to save $3,000 or 25 ways to save $2,000. Often times each of the ways are legit. Occasionally they are stretched a little bit. For instance, you’ll often read about the $5 cup of coffee that can be made [...]
