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It took less than 48 hours for Verizon to cave in to decide not to charge customers a $2 ‘convenience fee’ for the convenience of paying phone bills on the phone or online. What were they thinking? It’s the second time in recent months that consumers have forced corporations to roll back new add-on [...]  Verizon has announced plans to charge customers $2 to pay their monthly phone bill by phone or online, beginning January 15, 2012. The bad news bill is already getting buzz among tech websites like CNET, which already is speculating whether the new fee will cause a consumer backlash, like the one that hit Bank [...] This could be a battle of the goliaths on wheels. Megabus is suing to put BoltBus, its biggest competitor, out of business, or at least break it up into small pieces that would — effectively — make it disappear. There’s millions of dollars of shiny new busses and bus company profits at stake, along [...] We are barely done sorting through the Halloween candy haul the kids brought home, and already it’s time to start thinking about Black Friday and holiday shopping. Here are some shopping tips on making the best use of your time to save the most money, from the website BlackFriday2011 – Research: start your Black [...] Bank of America has been losing customers in droves since it announced it would start charging customers $5 a month to use their debit cards, and announced today it would scrub the new fees. Other big banks, including JPMorgan/Chase and Wells Fargo, chose not to follow BOA’s lead. Bank of America wound up looking [...] Priscilla of Boston is clearing out top designer wedding dresses at up to 70% off at its NYC salon today through Thursday, November 3, 2011. If you are in the market for an elegant, carefully made wedding gown, don’t wait, because after 65 years, Priscilla of Boston is going out of business on December [...] Arrow Electronics is moving its global headquarters from Long Island to Denver. That’s 550 jobs going west, from Melville, to the Denver suburb of Englewood. Normally, I would say stop buying Arrow Electronics products as a way of showing your displeasure with this bad bite into the Big Apple economy, but Arrow makes products [...] Starting next year, Bank of America will charge you $5 a month for the privilege of paying for purchases with your debit card. It’s the latest of a pile-up of new and increased charges for bank services before new consumer regulations go into effect limiting how much banks can charge for their services. Already, [...] AAA New York and AAA North Jersey are filing a Federal lawsuit in Manhattan today seeking to stop the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from collecting higher tolls on the Authority’s six bridges and tunnels connecting New York and New Jersey. AAA is also asking the United States Court to compel [...] It now costs $12 bucks to cross the George Washington Bridge or Lincoln Tunnel if you don’t have an E-Z PAss, and around $9 if you do have one. A lot of us are horrified at the toll increases the Port of New York Authority jammed down our gas tanks and into our [...] @NYCCheap
I just tried to pay a Macy’s credit card bill by phone and was astounded, horrified and truly disgusted to learn that Macy’s charges a whopping $14.95 to let you pay your bill by phone. That’s not the case with any other merchant I do business with, including American Express. Every [...] The dirty secret New York City sports clubs and gyms don’t like to talk about is thieves who pilfer valuables out of your gym locker while you are lifting weights, doing crunches or swimming laps. These are sophisticated thieves. They can ‘bump’ a lock, which allows them to open your locker without looking like [...] |
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