Posted on August 31st, 2007 by Justin Ryan
The blogsphere is abuzz this week about deceptive practices at social networking site Quechup. Apparently, the site is using customer’s propensity to scan and the tendency to rely on similar experiences in order to create a massive spam campaign.
Several dozen bloggers have posted apologies in the last couple of weeks after Quechup scammed them and [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2007 by Justin Ryan
The time has finally come: I’m in the market for a new car. Right now, I drive a late-90’s Toyota Camry that I bought in 2005. It’s been a good little car, but it’s beginning to need parts replaced and extra maintenance, and so I’ve decided to find it a new owner and find myself [...]
Posted on August 15th, 2007 by Justin Ryan
Ever find yourself on Amazon, staring at the checkout form and wishing you had a coupon code to enter? If you spend much time shopping online, you’ve seen the box, and probably wondered how you get those codes. The search is now over, thanks to online coupon clipper Coupon Craze .
Coupons Craze collects coupon codes [...]
Posted on August 14th, 2007 by Justin Ryan
A close friend of mine – Jen – called me the other day to vent – the bill for her cable TV and internet came in, and they’d raised the price of high-speed internet by $5. Now, $5 isn’t really that much, but to someone who keeps careful tabs on their bills, that extra $60 [...]
Posted on August 11th, 2007 by Justin Ryan
Dumpster diving – searching through the trash to retrieve items others have thrown away – isn’t a subject I’ve given much thought to as a frugal solution. (My thoughts on it have tended to be worries about potential identity theft.) However, this week’s “E-Journal” from the American Bar Association carried the headline Law Grad Spots [...]