It has happened to all of us. A product breaks and the manufacturer won’t honor the warranty. That big rebate on your new computer is weeks overdue. Your cable TV services has you yelling “Comcast: It’s CRAP-tastic”. And so begins your descent into customer service hell. A lot of times, the difference between getting excuses [...]

Free is good. Free money is even better! Starting 9/1/2007, you can earn a total of $175 in free money from Chase. $125 for opening a free Chase checking account (with direct deposit) You can use the codes 2971704722166780 or 2971704722166760 either online or in-branch for a $100 bonus when opening a free checking account [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you are probably very aware by now of the issues around mortgage lending. If not, go take a look at your brokerage account and try to come up with another explanation the balance number is so much lower than it was before. As [...]

In preparation for the upcoming football season, our family has finally hooked up service through Dish Network. We no longer have to crash a friend’s house to watch football games on ESPN! Anyway, unfortunately there isn’t a live football game on 24/7, so we flipped channels and found a show called “Flip That House” on [...]

How often to do hear about the poor sucker who was just scraping by, wins the lottery, and a few years later is right back to the same financial position he was in before (if not worse) due to poor decisions? As someone with a background in accounting and finance, it is the story that [...]

As anyone who knows me well can attest, I read a lot of magazines. My wife doesn’t hesitate to tell me quite often that my magazines are “out of control”. I get a lot of them, but don’t have much time to read unless I am traveling. Well, I found an article I liked so [...]

I posted previously about the Buy.com and Connect3D rebate fiasco. The short version is that Buy.com heavily advertises multiple memory cards for free after rebate in emails and on their website, the manufacturer disappears without paying out the rebate claims, and then Buy.com refunds a few customers who complained early about the situation and then [...]

So here’s one to make you scratch your head. The wife and I are getting ready to leave the house for work this morning when the doorbell rings. Being about 9:30 am on a Thursday morning, it is kind of strange for anyone to come to the door. So I look to the door to [...]

Here’s an odd one for you. I had to overnight some documents via DHL yesterday. Apparently the concept of the shortest distance between two point being a straight line is totally lost on them. My shipment was going from Houston TX to Baton Rouge LA. Via ground, it is about a 4.5 hour journey. By [...]

Here’s a pretty good promotion for those who haven’t signed up for Southwest Airline’s Rapid Rewards program. Enroll in their program using this link and they give you 8 RR credits to start your account: https://www.southwest.com/rrenroll/sfo/ Also part of the promotion is they give you double credit for flights into and out of San Francisco [...]