March 10, 2009
If you need a scapegoat for your financial ponzi scheme, there's a guy on Craigslist who's looking for a job: Is your hedge fund in dire financial straits? Are you totally screwed and now realizing that someone has to take the fall? Has your ponzi scheme enveloped numerous celebrity-endorsed chariti...
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March 04, 2009
If you have any lines of credit and you use them to manage your financial flow, you should evaluate your personal money matrix so you're ready in case all of them get cut. They're cutting lines of credit even for rocket scientists like reader Rocky. That's right, he's an engineer in the aerospace in...
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March 03, 2009
HP is known for its incompetent repair process, but what makes Aaron's case special is that at the end they decide to kick it up a notch. When he sends his computer in and gets it back from the repair center, HP has so ever so graciously filled it with free spyware and viruses. Aaron writes: The ver...
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You've seen the ads where the hard-working Amish folk are handcrafting miracle space heaters and no doubt scoffed at their absurdity and marveled at their Photoshop skills- but do the darn things work?Consumer Reports investigates in this video. The ads claim that the "roll-n-glo" heaters slash heat...
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In this latest Above and Beyond story, Victoria's Secret conducts a nationwide search to find the Chris and Becka's panties. Chris writes: I'd like to share my above and beyond story with you all. It all started when we had a horrible experience at our local Victoria's Secret (VS from here on) store...
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Highlights From Buxr AMC Theatres (IMAX): [Popcorn] Free Large Popcorn Coupon HP: [Laptops] Up to $400 off select laptops ($1199 or more) w/ coupon NB9874 Buy.com: [Cellphone Charger] Iqua Vizor Solar Powered Cellphone Recharger Car Kit for $49.99 w/ Free shipping Highlights From Dealhack Creative L...
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March 02, 2009
Paul now has 30 free pairs of sneakers from J.Crew for calling them out on some bullshit. It started off with me shopping in a store in NJ. I really liked the sneaker there but the store was closing and I had to head back to Brooklyn. The sales associate told me to just go online and id be able to g...
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You'd think a whole bus is hard to hide but Orbitz had no problem trying to sneak one past Harry McCracken when he was booking a flight to Las Vegas. He noticed at checkout there was a $14 ground transportation fee that had been "added for [his] convenience." Paging backwards, tucked in a list of ab...
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R wanted to get started paying off her Capital One credit card but after missing one month's payment she started a fee pigpile. She got overlimit fees, and then so many extra fees started piling on that she wasn't ever able to pay them off enough to bring her balance back under her credit limit. R w...
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It's amazing the hassle Bruce went through trying to buy a Jeep with $24,000 cash. Even though he's ready to buy the car outright, the car salesman almost convinces him to finance because that way you get $1,500 back. Total cost of the loan: $31,732...they wanted him to spend an extra $7,132 to "sav...
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