Archive for the ‘Shopping’ Category

$23,148,855,308,184,500 for cigarettes

On Monday some very lucky Visa cardholders saw the balance on their credit cards rise to somewhere around 23 quadrillion dollars!  Cigarettes, gas, a meal at Applebees, the price tag being levied by Visa was $23,148,855,308,184,500.
Visa, always quick to notice a problem, however small it may be – had this to say about the event:
“Erroneous [...]

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The end of a boycott……U-Haul gets a second chance!

Throughout my life I have encountered very few companies and products that were so awful that I had to resort to the drastic step of boycotting the company.  One such company is U-Haul.  Now the boycott ends tomorrow (unfortunately), but I wanted to put it on the record the PRIMARY reason why I am boycotting [...]

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Ebay’d

I’ve spent the past week or so on Ebay trying to buy various books to study for the bar and I’ve quickly discovered how incredibly addictive it is.  However, I have also witnessed how amazingly annoying it can be at times as well.
The addictive part mostly involves checking for a major swing in price on [...]

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