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Amazon Reportedly Hawks 'The Sopranos' DVDs After James Gandolfini's DeathThe post was pulled, but not before a reader of The Consumerist blog captured a screen shot and Amazon's more than poor timing" of the Facebook post, according to The Consumerist , an increase in sales of Gandolfini's work is inevitable
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Lego Apologizes for Cat-Calling StickerThe Internet chattered . Bloggers weighed in ; people began posting negative reviews of the product on Amazon, as The Consumerist noted. "It was so ridiculous that they would be putting this out there for kids," Stearns, 35, told ABC News
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Lego Apologizes for Cat-Calling Sticker
The Internet chattered . Bloggers weighed in ; people began posting negative reviews of the product on Amazon, as The Consumerist noted. "It was so ridiculous that they would be putting this out there for kids," Stearns, 35, told ABC News
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What the Airlines Have Learned From Popular Retailersexpensive and because you're paying to change your mind. Again, get used to it. Ever hear of a restocking fee? The Consumerist website is filled with tales of woe from those who haven't but the bottom line is, the privilege of changing your
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What the Airlines Have Learned From Popular Retailers
expensive and because you're paying to change your mind. Again, get used to it. Ever hear of a restocking fee? The Consumerist website is filled with tales of woe from those who haven't but the bottom line is, the privilege of changing your
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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
