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    Thursday, July 17, 2008 From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 8:38 am ET The FDIC was created in 1933 by the Glass-Steagall Act, and provides $100,000 of deposit insurance to checking and savings deposits. "Bank panics" used to be fairly common, and the FDIC was intended to instill ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 7:55 am ET Maybe we're not the only ones that think some babies are creepy. For the creepy baby in your life, Cracked has assembled a list of 20 creepy baby products. The really creepy part is ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 7:48 am ET The Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Stickney, Illinois, mixed up the tags on a couple of bodies, so that when mourners showed up to view 91-year-old Lillian Grogan on Monday, they instead saw a different ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 17, 2008 at 7:08 am ET Reader Joe wrote to us with a heads-up about not short-changing the U.S. Post Office. His postman left him a serious-ass invoice charging Joe with 1¢ postage due. According to Joe's rough numbers, the PO ... (more) Wednesday, July 16, 2008 From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 6:41 pm ET An Asus technician has stepped forward out the shadows to give us the 10 insider tips for getting through and getting better and faster tech support from computer and computer parts maker. Some things just ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 6:37 pm ET We're always told not to worry about our bank failing because our deposits are insured up to $100,000 by the FDIC. Well, in case you were wondering what happens when a bank actually does fail, ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 6:19 pm ET Following up on yesterday's story about a disgruntled computer technician who turned over the bank records from the LGT Bank of Liechtenstein, ABC News says that UBS Bank may have helped set up the secret ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 5:43 pm ET Mark says he's found fault with Faultless spray starch. The bottle shrunk by two ounces and is being sold for the same price, another victim of the Grocery Shrink Ray. Compare the products here and ... (more) Copycat, Copycat: American Eagle Outfitters Wins Injunction Against Payless Shoes [Copycats] (1 click)
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July 16, 2008 at 5:39 pm ET Have you noticed that Payless Shoes is starting to sell American Eagle Outfitters merchandise? Well, they're not. They bought a a footwear brand called American Eagle from another company and (allegedly) redesigned it to look ... (more) Well, At Least It's Free [Funny Signs] (2 clicks)
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July 16, 2008 at 5:28 pm ET Here's a sign Flickr member betterbethany found in Portland, Oregon over the weekend. We like to imagine there's a competitor's sign nearby that just reads "Free Dirt." (Photo: betterbethany)
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July 16, 2008 at 5:22 pm ET People, we're never going to attract Canadian tourists if we keep scaring the hell out of them with fireworks and bedbugs. Esmond and his girlfriend were staying at a Travelodge in Sandusky, Ohio on July ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 5:16 pm ET If you're a close Consumerist reader, you should now know what's in this box. Leave your wild guesses in the comments.
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July 16, 2008 at 5:00 pm ET If you're a fan of Joss Whedon (or Nathan Fillion or Neil Patrick Harris), you can watch Whedon's new online-only supervillain musical for free until July 20th.[BusinessWeek]
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July 16, 2008 at 4:14 pm ET AOL just launched a personal finance website called WalletPop. It's a combination of news feeds, blog entries, and a ton of calculators (which I just bookmarked in my "tools" folder). Mashable seems to like it—they ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 3:55 pm ET A man who spammed 1.2 million AOL customers was sentenced to 30 months in prison yesterday. Now how will we ever find out how to make bigger p3nz? Oh wait, here comes another spam... [CNN ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 3:40 pm ET Remember the French lawsuit that Louis Vuitton won against eBay earlier this month? A French court said eBay was responsible for policing their auctions for counterfeit items—at least that was the official language. It also, ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 1:51 pm ET Remember our reader who tried to use his Bank of America debit card on a parking meter and was charged a $10 cash advance fee? One of our commenters did a little investigation on our ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 1:50 pm ET The FTC fined a Dish Network telemarketing firm $75,000 for hanging up on customers, reports the Deseret News. The company used teleautobots to dial peoples' homes, which were then supposed to connect to a live ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 1:20 pm ET For stores that find it too expensive to hire floor employees that care or can actually tell you where an item is without being insolent and rude (we're looking at you, Home Depot), your solution ... (more) Are Unlimited Ride MetroCards A Good Deal? Not For A Lot Of People Who Use Them [Transportation] (2 clicks)
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July 16, 2008 at 1:10 pm ET The New York Times had an article today about the 10 year anniversary of the unlimited MetroCard and how it has transformed way people use the subway. They even included a graph that showed how ... (more) Grocery Shrink Ray Hits White Rain Shampoo, But It's Still "33% More" [Grocery Shrink Ray] (1 click)
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July 16, 2008 at 11:59 am ET Reader Luke noticed that the grocery shrink ray mercilessly zapped his bottle of White Rain shampoo— but mysteriously left the "33% more" label untouched. 33% more than... what exactly? Luke says: I've been using ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 11:29 am ET Watch out for fraudulent charges from Bestsmartstore.com on your credit card statements. Consumers are complaining about unauthorized charges for $4.95 or $4.99 for "e books" they never ordered or received. E-books are a favorite tool ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 11:15 am ET 20/20 is looking for a few good screwed consumers: Have you been ripped off recently by a store, hotel, airline, repair service or other retailer? ABC 20/20 would like to help you get satisfaction. If ... (more) From Consumerist - view blog entries - visit this blog
July 16, 2008 at 10:59 am ET Reader Joanne is wondering if the tiny handwritten mouseprint on the Haagen-Dazs drink special sign is purposefully misleading. She saw the special and ordered the drink, but when she asked for "no ice" she was ... (more) Bear Breaks Into Circuit City, Has As Much Luck Locating An Employee As You Do [Circuit City] (2 clicks)
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July 16, 2008 at 10:24 am ET Colorado Springs police say that the vandal who broke into a closed Circuit City wasn't trying to steal electronics — it was a confused black bear. Apparently, the bear panicked after setting off an alarm ... (more) Items 51 - 75 of 5,482
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