Archive for the 'Commerce' Category

Shameless Bank of America Advertising Practice

Monday, May 8th, 2006

My wife just received a new Bank of America debit card and managed to persuade me to activate the card by calling the number on the sticker. In the past, this was usually a simple and painless procedure: enter the card number, the expiration date, and the last 4 digits of the SSN, and you [...]

Need customer support?

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

If you’ve ever been annoyed at how difficult it can be to get a customer support representative on the line instead of having to navigate through levels and levels of automated voice systems, this might be for you: gethuman cheats.

The comprehensive list of phone numbers includes many banks, retailers, manufacturers, airlines, phone and other utility [...]

Gmail Package Tracking

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Once more, Gmail released a bunch of new features. I am particularly excited about the new Gmail Shortcuts. These show up on the right hand side of the page, right above the sponsored links, when Gmail was able to parse a mailing address or a tracking number from the email. I order a lot of [...]

Spreadshirt

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Ken Adams left a comment for my previous posting about my CafePress store and recommended that I check out Spreadshirt instead. After checking out their website, I am pretty impressed. Spreadshirt operates pretty much the same way as CafePress, which means that you can either create a design for yourself and order your own items, [...]

Amazon Prime

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

When I went to Amazon a few minutes ago, I was presented with a memo from Jeff Bezos, introducing the new Amazon Prime service. This sounds like an excellent idea, and certainly one that I’m bound to benefit from. Amazon Prime requires a yearly membership fee of $79, for which you get free second [...]

Amazon Plog II

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004

Even though the Amazon Plog initially did not show up for me when this feature was first launched, it started to show up a few days ago. The name definitely seems like a poor marketing idea, since this feature has absolutely nothing to do with a blog, other than its blog-like layout and the reverse-chronological [...]

sell your old cell phones

Monday, June 7th, 2004

I came across an interesting link on the wireless weblog: CellForCash.

They make it easy for you to sell your old cell phones by sending you a postage-paid box. The few phones that I have checked only sold for slightly above $10, but since they make it so easy, I may very well take advantage of [...]