Posts Tagged ‘consumer alert’
Dear Subway
Dear Subway, I have made hundreds of lunchtime trips in the middle of my workday over the years, and I often don’t know where I’m going to wind up when I head out. Subway is typically an option, and I do go to a Subway restaurant on occasion. However, there is [Read More]
Beware of Sprint: No longer fair nor flexible
Bastards…I hadn’t liked their new PowerPack plan because overage minutes are 45 cents, so I had them switch me back to my old Fair and Flexible plan, where overage minutes were just 10 cents. This was two weeks ago. I looked at my plan-switch confirmation and [Read More]
Email to Sprint PCS
I received a call from your loyalty department at 800-614-9021 at 2:02PM today, January 4. The representative I spoke to offered me the new fair-and-flexible plan that includes 450 minutes, 7pm evenings, and free mobile-to-mobile calls. She quoted a rate of $34.99 and [Read More]
Note to DISH TV
I am extremely disappointed by the poor quality of your response to my billing problem, which I emailed you about last night and called you twice about today. In the end, I think I am getting a refund for the $49.99 you mistakenly billed me, but I am not sure, because the [Read More]
Lending Tree
Lending Tree sucks Avoid Lending Tree Don’t use Lending Tree Lending Tree : bait and switch Just posted for the benefit of Googlers. I feel no desire to elaborate at the present moment. I should have googled these phrases myself before I went to their site, not [Read More]
I hate Quicken II
One of my financial accounts is not in Quicken’s auto-find list, and the account website can only export to QIF format, which Quicken 2007 no longer supports. So I can’t get that data. So I tried to cancel AGAIN (see last week’s entry) Neha: Hi, my name is [Read More]
I hate Quicken
So much for my goal of keeping track of my finances again. Rather than just improvise to catch up regarding six months worth of data within my Microsoft Money 2004 file, I decided I’d spend $30 and get the well-regarded Quicken Basic 2007. But I still wanted to have [Read More]
Correction*
Dear World, I was a nice guy this time, but the next time a preppy young dickwad comes to my door to sell me magazine subscriptions so he can get points to go to Fiji under the premise of building his communication skills and self-esteem, I’m going to beat him to a [Read More]
