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• Consumer Confidential: Bad shades, falling TVs

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 670
  Heres your tantalizing Tuesday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: -- More than 50 million Roman-style window shades are being recalled because of a risk that kids could be strangled by the cords. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says five deaths and 16 near-strangulations have been reported since ...
  1 week ago

• Consumer Confidential: Retail sales, robocalls, bad pet treats

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 670
  Heres your  festive Friday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: --Yes, were shopping. Thats the word from the Commerce Department, which says retail sales were up a healthy 1.3% last month , indicating that the economic recovery is gaining traction. A separate report shows that consumer sentiment is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Consumer Confidential: Bandwidth hogs, dangerous books, bad hammocks

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 670
  Heres your willing Wednesday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: -- Attention, wireless hogs: AT&T plans to put you on a tighter leash. The company says it will crack down on wireless users who swallow too much bandwidth by watching videos on their handsets (particularly iPhones). AT&T hasnt ...
  2 weeks ago

• GOOGLE HOME PAGE IGNORES PEARL HARBOR DAY

  
  The News Factor ... an informative online Conservative news magazine — Authority: 143
  What’s up with this people?Somehow, the emphasis falls short on many levels. Was the birthday of a cartoonist born over 100 years ago merely a random choice … or was this a conscious snubbing of an important event in America’s history?Google is a private business and thus, free to be whatever they desire that is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Safety commission reviewing safety concerns about Zhu Zhu robotic hamster toys

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 670
  The Consumer Product Safety Commission said today that it was looking into the safety of Zhu Zhu Pets, one of the holiday seasons hottest toys. Last week, a consumer website raised concerns about the levels of the chemical antimony in one type of the robotic toy hamsters. Over the weekend, manufacturer Cepia ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Thread Sunday

  
  Black & Right — Authority: 443
  Another reason I’m glad we created NMATV … h/t Mauser
  2 weeks ago

• Lexus in CHP officers crash had been flagged for sudden acceleration

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 670
  The high-speed crash of a Lexus ES 350 that killed off-duty California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Saylor and his family Aug. 28 may have been caused by the vehicle’s accelerator pedal becoming trapped by a rubber floor mat, but a range of other possible electronic or mechanical problems could not be ruled out, ...
  3 weeks ago

• ARE YOU A FACEBOOK ADDICT? HOW TO KNOW WHEN IT’S TIME TO QUIT

  
  The News Factor ... an informative online Conservative news magazine — Authority: 143
  Maybe you got on Facebook just to keep in touch with your friends, or possibly to make new ones. Where you just bored? Is Facebook becoming a thorn in your side, and possibly a clinically defined mental addiction? Do you find it difficult to spend one hour without checking Facebook? These questions and more are [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Lamborghini opens its first stand-alone U.S. retail boutique

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 670
  Car aficionados and their expensive toys were out in full force tonight, but no, it wasn’t at the L.A. Auto Show. Branching out from its roots as an exotic car maker, Automobili Lamborghini unveiled its first U.S. stand-alone retail boutique with a grand opening party at Westfield Topanga shopping center. ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Is Google/YouTube Up To?

  
  Black & Right — Authority: 443
  It’s funny; liberals always complaint about the lack of ethics and fairness when it comes to monopolies… unless they own them. Democrat-controlled congress, senate, and White House: okay. Oil companies and banks: problem. And since they have some of their favorite people at (let’s say) Google, making it so they ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nordstrom’s…rip-offs shoppers! Prissy fag clerks incompetent and dishonest…

  
  Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture — Authority: 127
  Imagine that!Today, after a couple of exhausting hours shopping at the mall, I stepped up to the cash register at Nordstrom’s in West Los Angeles to purchase a pair of running shoes for the sum of $49.95 & basic no-frills jeans for the princely sum of $78.00 (yes, at this snotty outlet, the merchandise is ...
  3 weeks ago

• More than 2 million Stork Craft and Fisher-Price cribs recalled after four infants die

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 670
  More than 2 million drop-side baby cribs built by Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc . are being recalled in the U.S. and Canada after the deaths of four infants. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Canadian government agency Health Canada announced the recall, which is being issued with the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Update on US Appliance TV Order

  
  Chart Swing Trader — Authority: 125
  I posted a few days ago about my experience purchasing a TV (the LG 47LH90) through the website http://www.us-appliance.com. At the time, I was very disappointed that they charged my credit card and then three weeks later told me they would not be getting any more TVs in and that I was out of luck. Well, after ...
  4 weeks ago

• Update on US Appliance TV Order

  
  Forex Bull — Authority: 145
  I posted a few days ago about my experience purchasing a TV (the LG 47LH90) through the website http://www.us-appliance.com. At the time, I was very disappointed that they charged my credit card and then three weeks later told me they would not be getting any more TVs in and that I was out of...
  4 weeks ago

• Consumer Cosmetic Injectable Safety Tips

  
  IAPAM — Authority: 106
  We’ve all heard of DIY home repairs, but DIY Botox and laser treatments? Yes, in this economy many people are looking at cutting costs, but before you start injecting yourself with cosmetic injectables or using a laser on yourself, you need to evaluate the potential life threatening risks. Injecting foam insulation ...
  4 weeks ago

• SHOCKING PRODUCT NEWS: ShamWow’s performance less than ‘wow’

  
  The News Factor ... an informative online Conservative news magazine — Authority: 143
  Comparison test: ShamWow’s performance less than ’wow’ Korky Vann | Chicago Tribune I was seduced by a ShamWow, the spiffy chamois cloth that promised to replace bathmats, sponges and paper towels from what CNBC has rated the No. 1 infomercial of all time. … a colleague mentioned that he’d purchased a ...
  5 weeks ago

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