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Archive for the ‘Consumer Information’ Category

June 3rd, 2008

How to Stop Phone Book Delivery

Is there any (good) reason why I have three or four telephone books delivered to my door, or rather thrown on my front lawn, every year?
There are phone books for just my township and phone books for the county. There’s a phone book just for local businesses and phone books for every business […]

By Deborah Ng -- 8 comments

May 5th, 2008

Where to Find Cheap Prom Dresses

I’ve been writing a lot about proms lately for a few of my b5 blogs. In my neck of the woods, the last weekend of May is prom, and right now teens all over are booking hair and makeup appointments and looking for the perfect dress. Through my two year stint as a wedding […]

By Deborah Ng -- 1 comment

April 19th, 2008

Customer Service Tip: How to Really Speak to a Supervisor

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Any regular reader of The Consumerist knows there are really no supervisors standing around waiting for angry customer calls. If you’re not getting proper customer care and ask to speak to a supervisor, your call can be turned over to anyone from Joe in the cube next door to the pizza […]

By Deborah Ng -- 5 comments

April 17th, 2008

A Tale of Two Estimates

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If you’re a regular visitor of Simply Thrifty, you’re probably following the sad saga of our DIY fence project. Thins are moving along…slowly.
One of the hold ups involves a few trees growing around the fence we’re to replace. Before we install a new fence we have to remove the trees and […]

By Deborah Ng -- 11 comments