The news just keeps getting worse for the Girl Scouts. First some jerk started paying for cookies with fake money — now some guy in a ski mask robbed some Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside of a grocery store in Alaska. According to the Juneau Empire, the girls and their troop leader...

Nice perks if you can get them. A SEC filing from Bank of America reveals the goodies that come with being a banking exec. "Homeowners who can't relocate because they're stuck with mortgage payments on a home they can't sell would lust after even a pale imitation of the $2.6 million relocation deal ...

Reader tking says his laptop started out with a bad power jack — but has slowly escalated in brokenness with each Dell intervention. tking says: My problems started when my Dell Vostro 1510 laptop wouldn't keep the power cord plugged in without extra effort. The first tech support person was m...

By now, most people know about the dreaded Red Ring of Death issue on the XBOX 360 — and the accompanying 3 year warranty. What many do not know is that that 3 year warranty only covers the "3 red lights" issue. If you get any other error code, you're out of luck. Reader Matthew just found out...

Reader Eric writes in to let us know that our advice about inspecting Circuit City liquidation merchandise before buying it saved his brother from getting stuck with the wrong item. So my brother was at Circuit City last night seeing if he could take advantage of their liquidation. He saw a display ...

A CBS investigation has uncovered some Walmart and Macy's coats being sold at Burlington Coat Factor — disguised as more expensive designer brands. Apparently, some jackass at a coat supplier thought it would be a good idea to glue Perry Ellis labels on cheap coats. As you can imagine, both Bu...

We've been getting a lot of emails from people saying that a company is using a robocaller to call their cellphones and pretend that their car warranty is expiring. Too bad that some of these readers don't even have a car. Has happened to you? Do you know who is behind it? Here is one such email fro...

1 pint = 16 fluid ounces — at least mathematically. In the ice cream world, however, there seems to be some shrinking going on. Ben & Jerry's, however, is refusing to slim down. Here's the email that announces their immunity from the dreaded Grocery Shrink Ray: One of our competitors (think fu...

We've been getting a lot of shocked letters from Capital One customers asking how the company can get away with raising their interest rates on their cards when they "haven't even been late with a payment." There is, in fact, no such thing as a fixed rate card and credit card companies don't need a ...

Delicious though they may be, Girl Scout Cookies are not recession-proof. Sales are down by as much as half according to one troop leader. "The Girl Scouts are not immune to the economy," said Sharon Bellinger, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of Connecticut. As if that weren't enough to deal with, s...