Consumer Karma

Category: Consumer

  • Dealing With Credit Card Companies: (Don’t) Trust But Verify!

    So I’m lying in bed this past Friday morning and a realization hits me. The due date for my Chase credit card is June 29, which is a Sunday. Since I normally pay all my bills online through my credit union and I realize that all payments made to Chase are electronic and take one…

  • They’re Back: 866-266-9317

    I honestly did not expect to hear from these people again. As I noted last year, I informed them to place me on their “Do Not Call” list, which, according to the “Do Not Call” laws as I understand them, means they are never supposed to call me again. Well, on June 20, 2008 at…

  • Credit Union To Introduce Cool New Feature

    Was I ever surprised to open my most recent statement from my credit union and find an insert in there that announces something they are calling “PC Deposit.” Sounds kind of interesting doesn’t it? Well, it is! What this new service allows is for customers to deposit checks electronically. The customer takes a regular old…

  • Latest Annoying Idiots: Info Specialist (952-277-0189)

    I didn’t realize how annoying unwanted calls are until I was accustomed to getting almost none of them since I signed onto the “Do Not Call” list a few years ago. It was so quiet for quite a while. This year my “friends” at CitiMortgage were most likely to blame for a bunch of telemarketing…

  • The Hazards of Living In New Hampshire During Campaign Season

    As most everyone knows, New Hampshire is quite well known as the state that holds the first Presidential primary in the nation. Every four years, this makes it annoying to have a telephone in the Granite State. Tonight was the night it started. The first call lit up the caller ID box with “CBS 4…

  • CitiGroup CEO Set To Step Down

    If I could get CitiGroup CEO Charles Prince on the phone or catch him on the street, this is what I’d like to say to him: Ha! Ha! Ha! It gives me a great deal of pleasure to see one of the top fat cats like this jerk getting a little payback that he so…

  • Online News Outlets: Smarten Up!

    How many times have you clicked on a link to a news story and then ended up at the brick wall that is the “Register” page? It happens to me all the time. I’m a regular reader of the Drudge Report, and as most Internet users know, that site contains many links to various news…

  • Dealing With Telemarketers & Junk Mailers

    I got an e-mail recently from my Dad about dealing with telemarketers and junk mail senders. It was one of those e-mail messages that is forwarded endlessly around the Internet, but this one actually looked like it might have some useful information contained within. The old tried-and-true methods like picking up the phone and then…

  • Two More: 866-566-5188 & 818-756-7497

    I wish I knew what it was that has ended my long period of peace and quiet. A few years back when I signed onto the national “Do Not Call” list the telemarketing calls to our house virtually ended. Once in a while (maybe three of four times a year), a telemarketing call would come…

  • Telemarketing Calls Take A Turn For The Weird

    It’s been pretty quiet around here on the telemarketing front. I have not received any more calls from the numbers I have discussed here recently. Perhaps CitiMortgage/CitiBank, whom I blame for the recent rash of telemarketing calls, has filtered out the information to their partners that I do not want to be bothered with their…