product review

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 3:00PM 8/25/2009
    The product: RoboMaid aka RoboMop The price: $7.49, plus $9.40 for shipping and handling, so the price really is $16.89 The claims: Dusts your floors for you so you don't have to The Buy-o-meter rating: 2 on a scale of 5 as a cleaner; 4 out of 5 as a toy With the iRobot Roomba becoming so...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 8:00AM 8/25/2009
    Failed product or not? We check out the Might Mendit The product: Mighty Mendit The price: Three tubes for $19.99 plus $8.95 for shipping and handling, bringing the total to $28.94. The claims: Repairs almost any fabric, fast way to fix rips, make hems, leaves no stains The Buy-o-meter rating: 3...

    By Josh Smith

    | 1:00PM 4/27/2009
    Last week we reported that Amazon's customer service department deleted a review that told about a seller's attempts at bribery and the damage this action can do to product ratings. Like all of Amazon's blunders, this one appears to have been a misunderstanding. The Consumerist reports that Amazon...

    By Josh Smith

    | 11:00AM 1/05/2009
    Who hasn't been curious about an "As-Seen-on-TV" product? No longer limited to late night infomercials, shortened versions of these ads pushing everything from weight loss to get-rich-quick schemes are now commonplace on prime time television. Under the constant bombardment of these "miraculous"...