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Apologies For Poor Photo Choice Exercised In IDT Article
Part of our job here as we incorporate The Conglomerist into the fold of Haberdasher Communications (tagline: let’s keep it under our hat, shall we?) is to clean up some of the ethical missteps taken...
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Sears Takes Customer Account Security 80% Seriously
Dear MATTHEW F: On Wednesday, April 9th you received an email with the subject line “Get $25 From Citibank”. We recently discovered that the email we sent to you incorrectly contained the salutation...
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Equifax Double-Reports Student Loan, Still Hasn't Corrected It 12 Attempts Later
“David” can’t get Equifax to correct his credit report. Since 2006, he’s been trying to get them to remove a misreported student loan, and they’ve repeatedly ignored him or said it’s not their fault....
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World's Most Conscientious Customer Completes Botched Software Purchase Over...
Here’s an “above and beyond” story from the other perspective. Patrick writes, I just wanted to pass along a story of a truly honest customer. The software company I work for put out a version...
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Remember that Norwegian site that was offering Beatles songs for legal download? Yeah, well, not anymore. It turns out their licensing agreement stipulates that the shows they put online have to have...
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Village Sends Woman $3600 Water Bill
Here’s another good reason to monitor your utility bills. A woman in Illinois saw her quarterly water bill shoot from $150 on average to $3600, after the village where she lives finally fixed a broken...
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Over 71,400 jobs were cut today, bringing the total jobs cut this year to over 200,000. CNN Money has a list of what’s been lost in 2009 so far. [CNN Money] (Thanks to Olevia!)(Photo: bbaunach)
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People Haven't Returned Hyundais b/c They Weren't Yet Eligible
Rather than some secret barometer of the economy’s resilience, the real reason why no one has returned a car yet under the Hyundai Assurance Program is that you have to make at least two payments...
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Zecco Accidentally Increasing Some Customers' Buying Power Was Not...
Yesterday we reported that online brokerage Zecco had accidentally increased the buying power of some of some of its customers accounts on April 1st in an apparent April Fool’s prank. However, the...
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Experian Fixes Messed Up Credit Report By Deleting Everything
Monique X. is trying to get a loan to consolidate her debts into a more affordable payment. She writes that she’s been careful with her credit history and knew that her credit score was adequate to get...
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