Best Buy Receipt Check
- http://www.die.net/musings/bestbuy/
- Shopper declines to show register receipt for purchase to door guard at Lakewood Best Buy, which is voluntary. Employees attempt to seize cart, stand in shopper's path, and park a truck behind shopper's car to prevent departure.
Consumer Alerts
- http://www.madwand.org/
- A personal list of companies the author has had dealings with in the past. Includes copies of complaints and correspondence.
Ed Foster's Gripelog
- http://www.gripe2ed.com/
- A place where customers of technology products can air their beefs with vendors and read about the problems and issues other customers are raising.
Grumbletext
- http://www.grumbletext.co.uk/
- Submit and read opinions and complaints on big corporations in the UK. Site creates news stories based on user contributed content and actively publicises it to the media.
JC Penney's Customer Treatment Philosophy
- http://ihatejcpenney.homestead.com/
- JC Penney sent erroneous report of $2607.93 judgment for nonpayment of store credit card debt to credit reporting agencies. Despite collection attorneys admitting error in May 2000, report still not retracted in January 2001.
Jvision Image Name Dispute
- http://er3.com/ojvision/
- Object Insight lawyers threatened trademark infringement lawsuit over filenames containing the letters "jvision", such as an unrelated "jvision.gif" image.
Reality Click
- http://www.realityclick.com/index.html
- Promotes customer relationships. Realityclickers can post rant or rave messages and realityclick will then email the company mentioned and let them know that there is a posting directed towards them.
Scandinavian tour operator VING
- http://www.vingkund.com/en
- How worlds biggest tour operator (Airtours) acts when an accident happens. Actual material form investigation, police reports and correspondence from VING management told by survivor of bus crash.
What's Wrong at Jiffy Lube?
- http://www.jiffylubeproblems.com/
- Vehicle inspector at Dallas, Texas, location did not follow regulations when performing vehicle inspection, leading to investigation by Department of Public Safety. Links to dozens of other webpages reporting issues with Jiffy Lube.
