Buy Now Pay in 2011with no Interest-Is there a Catch?

    
Now that we are in peak holiday season, the electronics retailers roll ou buy now pay later with zero interest. On the surface this sounds like a great deal and it can be if you are very careful with following the rules. Many people do not and end up paying a huge amount. The credit [...]

Airlines Charging for Pets on Board Another Ripoff

These days when you bring a pet dog/cat on the plane the airline charges you as much as $100.00. Even though the small carrier will fit under the seat in front of you. This is another consumer ripoff. while airlines control how many pets in the main cabin I think the fee is another way [...]

Airline Credit Cards-Forget them

I am telling everyone to dump and forget virtually all airline credit cards. I have nothing against getting that new airline card with the 20K mile bonus and 1 year free. After that dump those turkeys. The problem is the airlines themselves. Peter Greenberg (The Travel detective)calls most frequent flier programs a lottery where everyone [...]

Hotel Charges for High Speed Access can be a Ripoff!

Now that hotels can’t make any money from local and long distance phone calls, they are looking for a new revenue source. High Speed/wireless internet is considered a luxury in most hotels. It is amazong that many discount or budget hotels offer FREE wireless/high speed access while a $300.00 room might have a fee up [...]

Beware of Ads Touting Sale Items

I have seen a number of ads where they list an item as being on sale when it is not on sale. They show an original price that is higher than normal average retail. Department stores seem to do this more often in their ads. They sell the item at basically the going rate and [...]

Holiday Shipping-What is the Best Service?

                       
Now that holiday season is here many people are shipping gifts all over the us and the world. Many americans are shipping gifts to Iraq and to soldiers around the world. I have been shipping items for more than 20 years mostly to businesses ,however I have alot of experience in this are and [...]

Wal-Mart Black Friday Secret Sale Items-Unbelievable!

Just when I thought it could not be any funnier than some of the Best Buy limited specials. Wal-mart added a number of Black Friday secret sale items from 5AM-11AM. They have a special on a high end mixer, a laptop for $388.00 and some other items. Of course the ad on Yahoo states min [...]

Best Buy Black Friday Ad-Is it worth it?

There are some special offers in this weeks Black Friday Best Buy ad. the question is whether it is worth it to wait on line in the middle of the night to get a few of these deals. What is especially amazing to me in the color circular are various specials on video games and [...]

Save those receipts this Season!

Retailers are becoming super tough with accepting returns on products. This holiday season make sure to ask for a gift reciept on every product you purchase and file those receipts in an envelope. The thermal paper reciepts will also detoriate when exposed to light. You might want to scan in the big purchase receipts for [...]

Big Companies only Care When you Walk

The big companies will do anything to get your business. especially on services like cable tv, cel phones, high speed internet,online subscriptions and even insurance companies etc. They do anything and everything to get you to sign up for a given term. The deals are hot and everyone is so nice about getting you signed [...]