Companies reserve the right to produce, ship and distribute their goods globally. Many produce in cheap labor countries like China, ship the goods around the globe to sell it high in countries like the United States or the European Union. It is natural to them because the process saves them lots of ...

Image via Wikipedia I was trying to print out a label for return of goods to Amazon today, but none of the options appearing on screen fitted the situation. I ordered ONE copy of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer graphic novel, and THREE turned up, all of them charged to my card. I accept mistakes are some...

I just upgraded to the new version of WP and am well impressed with the new Admin panel design! It looks like the designers have put a lot of thought and effort into it, although I’m sure there will be some people who find fault with it. Personally, I’m just happy to have internet access...

Here's a question we get a lot. Are stores required to price match their own website? Mike asks: Even though the RIAA and the MPAA try to screw customers at every turn, I wanted to support my favorite show of all time by purchasing the new Futurama Movie: Bender's Game. Target.com had the cheapest p...

I bought a mixer online from Dolphin Music last month. I bought it online because Millennium Music in town are too technologically-retarded to have a website that actually shows their stock levels, instead always claiming things are in stock when they are not. So I bought from someone who does actua...

Why is it that some companies just don’t get it? Over the past week or so, I’ve been doing some research into coffee carts. You know what I mean — those movable carts you might see in office building lobbies or airports or malls that sell espresso and other hot and cold beverages. ...

Dick Smith Electronics is the Fry’s or perhaps Circuit City of New Zealand.  You know, the kind of place you go to buy components, computer games, iPods, XBoxes, and stuff.  The place you try to avoid at all costs, especially given the pimply-faced unhelpfulness of the staff. I should have k...

Not much news from me. Christmas didn't exist, but I did spend a few hours on the 29th visiting the family, or at least a subset of it, which I'll probably talk about in a separate post later. On New Year's Eve I went to Chris and Allan's, sans Allan, then ended up in the Salutation Inn, which was o...

Reader Mike says: Thought you guys would like this screenshot of a page I've been receiving from Macys.com for about the last half hour. Makes it pretty hard to see what their final One Day Sale before the holidays has to offer. Keep up the good work Consumerist! Mike We like the "wait in line" styl...

I am about to go to amazon.com or any site really where I can buy stuff. It is my release nowadays. Yesterday I bougth me these shades: http://www.wileyx.com/p44.php Today, I'll get me a marylin manson live dvd, and probably the matrix soundtracks...why the hell not. Damn, as soon as I can make it t...