Category: Consumer
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Careful What You Say To A Spammer
Or perhaps more importantly, watch how you say something to spammers. Once upon a time, I used to reply to spammers every so often. I would send them a piece of spam for one of my services and ask them how they liked being spammed in return. Naturally, since the vast majority of spam is…
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Work At Home? Yeah, Right!
They’re everywhere. If you spend time surfing around the Internet to visit various web sites, chances are good that you have seen the work-at-home ads. Maybe it is just the sites I tend to visit, but I see them all the time. Now who doesn’t want to work at home? Granted, there are some people…
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Thank You Nokia
It’s so refreshing to see a manufacturer do something sensible for a change. In this case I am talking about Nokia, a manufacturer of cell phones and probably other things I am not aware of. We recently decided to get my son a cell phone for his birthday. He’s 16 now, has a job, and…
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How Not To Run A Business
If you have read my entry here from August 10 about the vitamin company that I will no longer be doing business with, you might find this update interesting. You may recall that I sent them an e-mail message informing that I will no longer be doing business with them and why. Up until today…
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Worrying About A Leaky Roof As A Tsunami Approaches
Living in New Hampshire, all the recent hubbub about small town police chiefs arresting illegal immigrants on charges of trespassing has me pondering the situation. If you are not sure what I am talking about, do a Google search and include the words: New Ipswich, Hudson and illegal and you’ll find all you ever wanted…
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SPAM: Can It Be Stopped?
SPAM: The word makes me cringe each time I hear it. No, it’s not because I dislike canned meat products. It’s because I hate unwanted, uninvited crap invading my e-mail inbox. I don’t know if it is just me, but it seems that SPAM is on the increase lately and it is more annoying than…
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Slow Down And Read The Fine Print! Always!
A lot of people seem as though they have just entered some kind of race as they sit down in front of their computer and begin to browse around the web. Maybe it is just the immediate nature of the medium that makes people keep the virtual pedal to the metal as they speed from…
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Some Consumers Never Forget
It was the early 1990’s. The car I was driving at the time was a 1991 Ford Taurus. I had really done my research before purchasing that particular model. I had read all the consumer reports and reviews and I could find nothing but good stuff. Even though the price of that particular model was…
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How Desperate Can You Be For A Joke?
It’s probably about the third or fourth time I have seen this particular commercial on television. They are advertising a special number that you can dial on your cell phone which apparently results in a joke being sent to your cell phone in text format. The jokes, are, of course reported to be “hilarious.” While…
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Beware of Web Pollution
So, what is “web pollution?” Well, it’s really pretty much what it sounds like. It’s pollution that is beginning to clog up the web with useless sites that are created automatically by computer programs. You’ve probably seen them yourself. For instance, if you do a search on Google or Yahoo or any of the major…