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Fulfillment by Amazon / Easysell – Interesting Idea
As a long-time customer of Amazon and general lover of the company (both for buying, selling and computing platform), I was recently posting a slew of things to the Amazon Marketplace (a damn-easy way to sell things you have, by finding the listing in Amazon, and clicking “Sells Yours Here” on the product page) and [...]
Continue reading...Club Nintendo Finally Coming to North America
Sunday, December 7, 2008
While Japan and Europe have enjoyed the benefits of Club Nintendo for many years Nintendo finally is bringing it to North America. In October the announced their plan to have it launched in North America before the end of the year. The Club Nintendo loyalty program offers rewards to members who collect points (sometimes referred to [...]
Continue reading...Amazon MP3 Download Service Review
Friday, September 5, 2008
After growing increasingly unimpressed with the Apple iTunes/iPod “lock-in” model I started hunting around for alternative low-cost music services online. Fortunately one of the first and favorite services I ran into is the relatively new Amazon MP3 Downloads service. Some of the big highlights of the Amazon MP3 service for me were: Non-DRM’ed music Low-cost music (about $0.99 [...]
Continue reading...AT&T Charges Up to 8 Minutes for 1 Minute Call
Monday, May 7, 2007
The Consumerist is reporting that AT&T’s prepaid-calling-cards are actually over-charging you in some states for every minute you talk, for up to 8 minutes per minute. AT&T claims it’s due to regulatory charges that they need to over charge, but the FCC has clarified that in no way are the cards regulated. This just boils down [...]
Continue reading...Checking Product Pricing and Reviews Instantly
Monday, April 23, 2007
How cool is this… The Consumerist pointed me over to Frucall which is a mobile and online comparison service. You essentially text message the number “fru” with the bar code from the item in question, and the response you get back is a summary of the average rating of the product and it’s price online. So [...]
Continue reading...Comcast to Begin Charging for Tech Visits
Monday, April 23, 2007
If you have been a Comcast customer you may have gotten a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that your $60/mo bill helped pay for the times when you needed a tech to come out and figure out what was going on with your setup. The Consumerist is reporting that this is all coming to an end [...]
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
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