THE PLUG MAGAZINE

Your Electric Company Will Not Call And Demand Payment By Prepaid Card

http://ift.tt/1rgEdPy ( Timothy Barnes ) While your local utility could call you up and demand immediate instant payment using a prepaid d...

More Info From Yelper Who Says He Was Threatened Over Negative Review

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http://ift.tt/1yuIR1q One of the messages allegedly sent via Facebook from the chef to a customer who left a one-star review on Yelp. Earli...

Amazon Takes $170 Million Loss On Fire Phone Flop

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http://ift.tt/1siYNhJ Despite Amazon advertising the device on every doorstep and dropping the price under a buck , the company’s Fire Phon...

Apple Pay Lets Man Scan, Use Wife’s Citi Credit Card Without Additional Verification

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https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/applepay.png?w=680&h=417 Apple Pay allows you to easily scan cards into the Passbo...

Costco Takes Unusual Stance That Retail Employees Should Have Thanksgiving Day Off

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http://ift.tt/1twGRFr ( joelgoodman ) As the beginning of Black Friday and thus the holiday shopping season has crept backwards into the ear...

Windows Update Breaking Counterfeit Computer Chips That Users Don’t Even Know They Own

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http://ift.tt/1xkTpPB ( frankieleon ) Most of us have, at least once, had a Windows Update that made something work less well than it used ...

Kids Tasked With Dumping Alaska Village’s “Honey Buckets” Likely Psyched To Finally Get Indoor Plumbing

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http://ift.tt/1xkR4nI Line’em up, boys. ( catastrophegirl ) Aren’t chores the worst, kids? Yes, sure, taking out the trash and emptying the...

Evenflo Agrees To Recall 202,000 Rear-Facing Infant Car Seats Over Tricky Buckle

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http://ift.tt/1tRz3jQ Earlier this year, both Graco and Evenflo recalled almost six million car seats, all told, due to a safety buckle t...

$10K Or $250K — How Much Should Walmart Pay For Wrongly Accusing Man Of Attacking Worker?

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http://ift.tt/1zppcnD ( Marike79 ) In Sept. 2007, a man described as being 5’7″ and around 50 years old in California allegedly attacked a ...

Man Scores $25K A Year For Life, Realizes He Happens To Have Another Winning Lottery Ticket

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https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/lotterymoolah.jpg?w=680&h=454 ( Lisa Brewster ) Sometimes it pays to be predictabl...

Florida SodaStream Users May Soon Be Able To Create DIY Pepsi At Home

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http://ift.tt/1wqfHAd ( Matte ) People who own SodaStream machines may soon be able to see whether or not the in-home beverage-maker can tr...

Man Sleeping In His Car At McDonald’s Drive-Thru Charged With DUI After Trying To Pay Cops For Burgers

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https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/mcddrivedrunk.png?w=680&h=458 ( yarnzombie ) On the one hand, it’s only right and ...

Yelper Claims Chef Responded To Negative Review With Threats, Racially Charged Messages

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http://ift.tt/1yuIR1q One of the messages allegedly sent via Facebook from the chef to a customer who left a one-star review on Yelp. Some ...

Antitrust Experts To FCC: Comcast/TWC Merger Is A Terrible Idea

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http://ift.tt/1wlFDPY (Consumerist) A group of antitrust experts spanning the country, from Harvard to Stanford and plenty of places in bet...

Family Of Girl Burned By Hot Coffee At Denny’s Lands Reported $500,000 Settlement

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http://ift.tt/1oC62Xf ( БРАТСТВО ) Usually when you hear about a lawsuit involving hot coffee, the normal reaction is, “Well, yeah, coffee ...

Detergent Companies Are Unhappy With Our Efficient Washing Machines

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http://ift.tt/1woNVUA ( CrzysChick ) High-efficiency washing machines, which use less water to clean your clothes, are an advance that most ...

FTC: Tech Support Representatives Pretended To Be From Microsoft, Facebook, Scammed $2.5M From Consumers

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http://ift.tt/1shGsBD ( lungstruck ) It makes sense that consumers with a lack of computer knowledge would seek services and assistance fr...

Bakery That Never Used The Word “Cronut” Told To Stop Using The Word “Cronut”

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http://ift.tt/12qGTol From the cease-and-desist letter sent by Ansel’s lawyer to the Reno bakery. ( via Facebook ) While NYC pastry chef Do...

Toddler Gets Stuck In Toy Claw Machine, Now Has Interesting Story To Tell At Every Party He Ever Goes To

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http://ift.tt/ZLOfRk ( WBIR.com ) If you think about it, as long as a child is successfully rescued from inside one of those claw toy machi...

Brewery Battling Lucasfilm After Attempt To Trademark “Empire Strikes Bock” Beer

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http://ift.tt/1tjlzfR ( Great Beyond ) On the one hand, it was all a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. On the other hand, Lucasfilm ...

The Average Middle-Class American Only Has $20,000 Saved For Retirement

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http://ift.tt/1tjkCnN ( Misfit Photographer ) Consumers’ lack of savings for the future isn’t a new phenomena: Just two months ago we repo...

Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

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http://ift.tt/12q1Akk Here are eight of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usab...