Back in January, I posted about a coworker who had been a victim of identity theft. In summary, someone stole her ID and debit card and used them to cash stolen checks against her account. When the checks came back NSF, her account was debited for the stolen money. You can read the story in more [...]
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This is the second installment of Property Pitfalls, a series where I discuss some of the hazards out there waiting to ensnare unsuspecting homeowners. Today’s topic: Security system contracts from the big name national companies. Crime is all over the headlines, and if that wasn’t enough of an encouragement to install a security system for [...] I wrote last week about finally receiving my rebate from ATS after 136 weeks, seemingly out of nowhere. As part of my follow-up on this rebate, I was contacted by an investigator with the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs who was contacting persons who had filed BBB complaints against the company as part of [...] Talk about unexpected surprises in the mailbox! I posted last Februrary about my fight to collect $30 in rebates from American Telecom Services (ATS) for a cordless phone bought from Office Depot on Black Friday 2006. Here the timeline on this rebate: 11/24/2006 – Purchased ATS cordless phone as part of Office Depot Black Friday [...] We all know and love the Snuggie, that cool blanket with the sleeves sewn in that is a mainstay of the cable TV commercial circuit. We have a Snuggie ourselves and they are as cool as the actors in the commercial make them seem, and yes you do look like a monk when you have [...] Here’s a gem for you, courtesy of USAToday.com: apparently Chase is assessing new fees and raising minimum payments on credit card customers who are floating balances under promotional fixed rates. In the latest fee rolled out by a bank, JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest card issuer, has begun charging hundreds of thousands of borrowers a [...] If you watched the Super Bowl, you probably saw the Cash4Gold.com commercial, complete with celebrity (using the term loosely) appearances by Ed McMahon and MC Hammer. Who better to promote a service aimed at desperate people than someone who almost lost his house to foreclosure and someone who filed for bankruptcy less than a decade [...] A while back I posted about a scam being perpetrated by Sears and Dockers on a recent rebate promotion. The issue I had was that instead of a “$10 reward card” as promised in a Sears press release, I received a crappy $10 off $50 men’s apparel coupon that was loaded with exclusions. Well, I’m [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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