Month: April 2010
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Here They Come Again: Return of the Credit Card Offers
After all the trouble in the credit industry over the last couple of years, the offers I used to receive in the mail for credit cards almost every day pretty well dried up. The envelopes with “0% For A Year” and similar pitches simply stopped arriving in my mailbox. With big banks getting bailouts from…
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Why I Dumped 1&1 Web Hosting For HostGator, The Final Chapter
As incompetent as 1&1’s technical support department was, their billing department proved that they are just as bad. I had read horror stories about 1&1 billing and had a feeling that freeing myself from their clutches might not be easy. One might suspect that 1&1 employees are all encouraged to strive to be the worst…
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Credit Counselors Who Can’t Pay Their Own Credit Card Bills?
With the sad state if the economy these days, I’m seeing my share of ads on TV and online that tout the benefits of credit counseling services. I don’t know a whole lot about that industry, but I presume their stated intent is to assist consumers who want to reduce their debt and learn how…