7421, Report:
#2191
Posted Date:
May 03 2000
CIRCUIT CITY and THOMPSON ELECTRONICS RIP-OFF dvd hardware offer Buy a qualifying dvd player get shafted
Circuit City offered a promotion which states if you buy a qualifying dvd player and send in the required information you will recieve 5 free dvd's and 13 free rentals. We purchased one of the qualifying dvd players from Circuit City on October 9,99. Our qualifying request was recie...
Entity
dvd hardware offer
Categories: Electronic Manufacturers
7422, Report:
#2072
Posted Date:
Apr 14 2000
Long Distance Scam
AOL Long Distance called our home and offered us 100 free minutes, $5.95 per month with rates of 5 cents per min., and a reimbursement of the switching fees for both lines. The salesgirl also said that we could be billed on our regular phone bill and we would receive calling cards....
Entity
AOL Long Distance
Categories: Telephone Companies
7423, Report:
#1615
Posted Date:
Mar 20 2000
CON-PAQ'S MY PC is SORRY - OH!
A week before Valentines Day, My amazing boyfriend told me he was taking me to buy myself a new computer for Valentines Day. The love of my life, Marc Anthony; My Computer, not my boyfriend! I have never had a brand new computer, so you can understand why I am so attached to him. ...
Entity
Compaq Computer Corporation
Categories: Computer Manufaturers
7424, Report:
#1513
Posted Date:
Mar 14 2000
Free Disk Space a free online file storage provider, a joke
I joined Free Disk Space and was allocated 300 meg. of space to store my files, I did this to free up my limmited space on my local hard drive. I was able to upload my files, however I noticed the site sponsor advertisements were not workiong properly. I assumed this was a minor pro...
Entity
Free Disk Space(Your Z.com Inc.)
Categories: Internet Services
7425, Report:
#1437
Posted Date:
Feb 29 2000
CD-Rom club ripoff
In December of 1999, I received an offer by mail for MICROSOFT OFFICE 97 PROFESSIONAL free!!! Just pay the postage of $3.00 and join the CD-ROM OF THE MONTH CLUB. Then pay $9.96 per title for six month's worth of cd-roms - 12 total plus $1.50 s/h on each hot cd-rom. Office 97 came w...
Entity
CD-ROM OF THE MONTH CLUB
Categories: Software
7426, Report:
#1374
Posted Date:
Feb 23 2000
Fraud
I took my computer to Computer Denn on Jan 20, 2000 to have my C: drive get fixed, because it was not working.
Specification of my computer: Floppy drive, two removable 1.2 gigabyte western digital drives (C: & D:), and the following was installed on the C: drive ( Window 95 ID:...
Entity
Computer Denn
Categories: Computer Service & Repair
7427, Report:
#1242
Posted Date:
Feb 10 2000
Buyers Reward Membership Credit Card charge
I received a credit card billing for Buyers Reward (Phone # 1-888-249-5880. I called The company using the phone # I found on your site (not given permit #517 dated 12/11/99), They told me they would credit back to my account the $72 charge. I asked how they got my credit card, he s...
Entity
American Direct Marketing
Categories: Sales People
7428, Report:
#980
Posted Date:
Dec 10 1999
Microsoft Network Internet Acess
New to Internet, 1 week, had to switch to AOL since MS IA had too few 818 Area code servers for LA CA Area,
TOO many Disconnects.Lost messages, etc.
Enough, yet both for Same monthly rate.
Avoid MSN IA at any cost.
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Entity
Microsoft
Categories: Internet Services