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Just when you thought credit card companies couldn't go any lower with deceptive marketing tactics, Discover recently sent out a whopper of a mailer to cardholders. The new mailing focused on the many benefits that cardmembers receive from Discover, including the ability to get Cash Over at select...

You might think that receiving $1.6 billion in government cheese would give a bank a new-found sense of humility. But Chicago-based Northern Trust hosted its Northern Trust Open PGA Tour event over the weekend and TMZ reports that "We're told Northern Trust paid millions to sponsor the PGA event...

Forbes has an interesting article out about America's rip-off airports, which is a must read if you're going to be traveling any time soon. Even if you already know if an airport near you is a good or bad deal, the list can be surprising. I sure didn't need to be told that the Cincinnati/Northern...

Don't mess with my mother. She is 87-years-old, lives alone and is sharp as a tack. So when she saw an ad on TV for Hydroxatone with a risk-free trial for only $9.95 for shipping and handling, she called them up. She wanted her risk free trial. But she did not want their Auto-ship Beauty Program,...

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"...

Earlier this week, one of my colleagues in Texas told me about a shipping problem she had recently, and asked me to warn others so it doesn't happen to them as they send out packages this holiday season. My colleague's salsa company, Spirit of Texas Salsa, had shipped several boxes to Georgia and...

Food and transportation prices have been rising enough in the past few months to give anyone a heart attack. In fact the high prices of everything from cab rides and dinner at Applebee's to an evening out at the strip clubs have been causing heart attacks for Robert P. Farnum a resident of...

Moving is a stressful event, tempers are tested and wallets are opened all in the need to get your life's accumulations from point A to point B. The NY Times covered an issue some people are having with moving services, especially with state to state moves. In these cases a moving company provides...

Update; no thanks to Sears, Citibank officials have stepped in to resolve this dilemma. Read about it here: Just in case you need another reason not to use a store branded credit card, a Sears card holder, Tom, is still waiting for a refund on a TV that he ordered last November at his local...