Success in protesting our property taxes!

I posted previously about my decision to protest my property tax assessment, and my time to present my case to the appraisal district finally came this past week.

Being the obsessive-compulsive accountant type, I diligently put together my protest and evidence for my meeting with the appraiser. My protest for a lower appraisal was based [...]

Scam Week: Office Depot Rebate Scam

In the third installment and final installment of Scam Week, we will discuss another rebate scam, this time at the hands of Office Depot. Earlier this summer, I purchased an HP LaserJet 3050 printer from Office Depot. The printer was on sale for $199.99, and there were two rebates of $100 each advertised in the [...]

Scam Week: National Service of Process (NSP)

In our second installment of Scam Week, we go into the seedy underworld of abusive collection agencies. Now let me say that I fully support the collection agencies that act in an ethical and legal manner. In this country I feel a lot of times we discount the concept of personal responsibility, and legitimate collection [...]

Scam Week: Sears/Dockers Rebate Scam

Welcome to scam week here at CheapEncounters.com! This week I will be highlighting several scams that I have recently encountered that badly need to see the light of day. Some of my most memorable and popular posts have been about scams (see the FreeNEzy.com saga and the Reservations Rewards scam), so I thought it would [...]

Sneak Peak: CVS Deals for the week of 10/5/2008

In the final installment of our super early sneak peak at upcoming CVS deals, here are the rumored CVS deals for the week of 10/5/2008. Remember that these have not been verified with an adscan and that these specials will not be available in all areas. On to the deals:

Glaceau vitamin water 32 0z. [...]

Wanted: More blog traffic!

Like many, I think the internet is one of the greatest communications tools ever created, and I ponder daily the amount of gratitude in my heart to Al Gore for inventing the internet and making this all possible! Seriously though, the internet is such a wonderful tool and allows me and millions of others to [...]

Sneak Peak: CVS Deals for the week of 9/28/2008

This is a second installment of the super early preview of upcoming CVS deals that were briefly posted on SlickDeals. As noted in the last CVS preview post, these deals have not been confirmed with ad scans and should be regarded as rumors. Deals are also not effective in all areas. Anyway, here are the [...]

Tired of working for the Man? Is a franchise for you?

All of us working stiffs have had times when we wonder why we are slaving away for the Man and have thought about the idea of going into business for ourselves. Yes, in many ways it is the American dream to be your own boss, but how exactly do you do it? It isn’t as [...]

Sneak Peak: CVS Deals for the week of 9/21/2008

Ok folks, I know this is a little ways into the future, however I wanted to share some information that was briefly posted on SlickDeals discussing the CVS deals for the week of 9/21/2008. I post these now because of a little bit of drama on SlickDeals where the original poster decided to have all [...]

For the British motorist with style: NorthumbriaNumbers.com

Here in the States, we see a lot of personalised license plates. It has even gotten to the point here that states issue specialty plates for specific causes and organizations to help us express our affiliations through the license tags on our automobiles. But did you know that you can have personalised Number Plates [...]