MetaFilter posts tagged with Consumerist

Congrats, you're a millionaire! April Fools! That'll be $819.99

waraw — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:56:37 -0800

Who are the Fools here? "Many customers of Zecco Trading logged into their brokerage account yesterday to be greeted with a slightly higher buying power than before… on the order of 6 to 13 million dollars!" So what'd these customers do? They bought stocks. Oops. SEC may be getting involved. The Consumerist: "When Zecco realized what was happening, they responded by panic-selling the purchased stocks at a loss and charging the balance to customers, along with a $19.99 broker-assisted trading fee. One poor schmo bought $1 million worth of shares that were later sold for less than the purchase price."

Poor people drive our economy, okay? Poor people ... with checks.

grabbingsand — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:43:40 -0800

"America's most valuable resource is poor people." The award-winning Internets Celebrities (Dallas Penn, Rafi Kam and director Casimir Nozkowski) take on check cashing joints with a short documentary called Checkmate. Don't know the IC? Educate yourself with Bodega, Cereal Is Dope and the incredibly informative Urine Nation. (via Hip-Hop is Read)

It ain't gonna work.

Pope Guilty — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:06:34 -0800

Randy Taylor is not happy about Jimmy Dean's change from 16 oz to 12 oz of sausage in a package.

Geek Squad Steals Porn?

charmston — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:48:04 -0800

Using a computer set to auto-screencast, The Consumerist catches a Geek Squad technician copying porn from a client's computer to a thumbdrive, and they've got video and logfiles (CSV) to prove it. Also, the Geek Squad CEO responds, and an anonymous Geek Squad tech confesses that this is not an uncommon practice: "stealing customers' nudie pics was an easter egg hunt." Consumerist users suggest that this practice might not be limited to Geek Squad. Via.

Electric Counterpoint

basicchannel — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:35:53 -0800

For months IDT Energy has been accused by Con Edison customers of fraudulant "sales" tactics. The Consumerist decided to hire a journalist to investigate how the company conducts business by getting hired by Midtown Promotions, the company IDT uses to canvas and bully ConEd customers into switching to IDT Energy. Today is Day One in a multi-part series investigating the underhanded practices of an unregulated utility company.

Only in Brooklyn.

paulinsanjuan — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:08:14 -0800

No rest stop? Try latex. From consumerist.com, a tale of... what can i say? Just a funny story. With pictures.

You might be a Walmart shopper...

rzklkng — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:07:55 -0800

Proported [Leaked] Walmart Internal-Marketing Presentation. Hate Walmart? Well, you're now a Conscientuous Objector (14% of their market). Read up on the Price-Value Shopper, the Brand Aspirationals, and the Price Sensitive Affluents, and see if you can figure out where you are in the Walmart Universe.

Bitch-Slapping with the Invisible Hand

digaman — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:38:57 -0800

Zombied-out customer-service reps beware: the Consumerist, the newest edition to Nick Denton's Gawker "nanopublishing" empire, is watching you. Gizmodo's Joel Johnson (who recently spent a month in New Orleans) serves up sassy shopping tips and customer-service-tests-from-Hell. More hip-product-pr0n-with-an-attitude, just in time for ~~Christmas~~ the happy holidays^TM.