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Daylight Savings Causes Pay Confusion
out during next spring’s daylight savings time, when they are paid for one extra hour, as first reported by the Consumerist . Daylight saving time ended for most of the country, as standard time officially began 2 a.m. last Sunday morning
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$1 19th Century Victorian Home Faces Foreclosure
distance away from its current location. According to the Consumerist , Hatchell shelled out hundreds of thousands on the and village president Edgar McChesney, according to the Consumerist . The home is listed for sale on Realtor.com for $549
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Investors Purchase $1.2 Million Home for $10KCaranante says. Florida isn't the only area that auctions off property for unpaid association fees. In 2009, the Consumerist reported about a community in San Antonio, Texas where 84 homes faced the auction block for unpaid dues, including
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How Often Do You Have to Replace Pricey Products? 'GMA' Separates Myth from Fact to Save You Moneyto read more facts from the FDA on food labels and food expiration dates. Further down the grocery aisle, the " The Consumerist " website was the first to notice that new labeling on boxes of Arm and Hammer® Baking Soda says to replace the product
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Infomercial Junkie: How She Got Hooked...Are You Next?chemical dopamine. The ads work by playing to our basic emotions, said Ben Popken, editor of Consumer Reports' The Consumerist blog. "There's not a whole lot of higher level cognitive thinking going on that infomercials are targeting
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Companies Add Services to Bills Without Consent, Consumers Say
commissions on sales of these services and sometimes get a little carried away." Ben Popken, co-managing editor of the Consumerist , concurred. Consumerist is a Web site run by the Consumers Union that allows disgruntled customers to air their
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ATM Skimming 101: How to Keep Safepulled at the mirror, it came right off and, like Seibel, he found a hidden camera behind it. According to the blog the Consumerist , in one week, three of its readers -- Seibel, McGlynn and another man in Los Angeles -- each found a different
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Facebook To Adopt New Governing Documents
Terms of Service in February. The backlash came after the Consumerist Website published a blog alleging the now-defunct previous critics of Facebook's old TOS, including the Consumerist ; Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of Harvard's
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Domino's nightmare holds lessons for marketers
crisis-management specialist. • Respond at the flashpoint. Domino's first responded on consumer affairs blog The Consumerist , whose activist readers helped track down the store and employees who made the video. Then it responded on the Twitter
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Address User Privacy Concerns at Press Conference Thursday
caught wind of the change. The details of the terms of service change were highlighted in an extremely popular blog at the Consumerist Website where people felt Facebook's new terms of service meant "anything you upload to Facebook can be used by
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Facebook backs off changes to terms of service
exploded Sunday after a consumer rights advocacy blog, The Consumerist , flagged a change earlier this month to Facebook's it with the exception of keeping an archival copy. The Consumerist interpreted the deletion to mean that "now, anything
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Facebook Yields to User Outrage: Reverts to Old TOS
caught wind of the change. The details of the terms of service change were highlighted in an extremely popular blog at the Consumerist Website where people felt Facebook's new terms of service meant "anything you upload to Facebook can be used by
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Users: Facebook's getting 'grabby' with our data
exploded Sunday after a consumer rights advocacy blog, The Consumerist , flagged a change earlier this month to Facebook's it with the exception of keeping an archival copy. The Consumerist interpreted the deletion to mean that "now, anything
