Here’s another reason to avoid Best Buy. A customer in Washington DC is suing Best Buy for $54 million after the electronics giant lost his laptop that he brought in for repair. Instead of fessing up to the blunder and offering reasonable compensation for the loss, Best Buy lied to the customer for two and a half [...]
Here’s another one of those legal settlements many of you will be interested in. If you bought diamond jewelry between January 1 2004 and March 31 2006, you are eligible for a class action lawsuit settlement from DeBeers, the big South African diamond company that essentially controls the worldwide diamond market. A total of $135 [...]
While most Americans have not even filed their tax returns for 2007 yet, our friends at the blood-sucking IRS have released the federal income tax brackets for 2008. Without further ado, here are the brackets for married filing jointly. For other filing status brackets, see the IRS bulletin here. TABLE 1 — Section 1(a). — [...]
Well, I guess the credit insanity had to end sometime. One of the areas where logic seemed to go out the window long ago was with respect to credit cards. For a long time it seemed like there were at least five pre-approved offers in the mail every day. But perhaps the fun is now [...]
Those of you in other parts of the country might think this is lame, but it is almost time for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo again. For those of you who don’t live around here let me assure you that this is more than just a bunch of cowboys and farm animals! Arguably the [...]
More money to add to my running “Frugal Funds” total. We got our UPromise earnings checks yesterday, which represent all of the earnings we have had in the program to date. I had $62.96 in earnings and my wife had $10.93. Less the two stamps to send in the withdrawal requests, we earned $73.07 for [...]
An article on MSN Money proposes an interesting idea: taking a personal day from work to fix your finances. The concept is a good one: if you take a single day to dedicate to fixing your finances you’ll finally get those pesky items off your to do list and ultimately profit from the time your [...]
All are not equal, at least as far as Chase and its customer service representatives are concerned. In an interesting article on the Consumerist billed as “10 Confessions of a Chase Customer Service Rep”, a former Chase CSR gives what he considers to be “secrets” of how their customer service works. Most of the article [...]
It looks like another blogger has called me out (among others) to disclose the contents of my wallet. PT over at Prime Time Money has issued this challenge in a post where he discloses the contents of his wallet, and I’m never one to back down from a challenge. My wallet is not your traditional [...]
It used to be that every other email in my inbox was spam for a product to enhance a certain manly part, but over the last couple of weeks those have been outnumbered by messages from online savings accounts notifying me of reduced interest rates. I guess that will happen when the Fed reduces rates [...]