When Americans travel, our money goes with — and not just in a metaphorical sense. Where people go, coins get left behind. Meanwhile, the pe...
Collectibles Seller Films FedEx Worker Flinging Packages Around
When a Long Island collectibles seller heard reports from customers that items were arriving damaged, he became a one-man investigative repo...
AB InBev To Sell SABMiller’s Eastern European Brands For $8B
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s pending $107 billion merger with SABMiller will now include fewer brands: the beer behemoth announced today that it w...
American Airlines Apologizes For Preventing Musician From Bringing Violin On Board
American Airlines has apologized to a concert musician who wasn’t allowed to board a flight carrying her 18th-century violin, despite the ai...
Rovi Buys TiVo For $1.1B
Rovi and TiVo are getting hitched. The technology maker announced Friday that it would pay $1.1 billion to bring the set-top box recorder un...
Screwed Over By A For-Profit College? You Probably Signed Away Your Right To Sue
When Corinthian Colleges Inc. collapsed, leaving thousands of students in the lurch with student loan debt and credits that they didn’t know...
Does Cord-Cutting Always Automatically Save You Money?
For the past several months we’ve been working our way through real customers’ pay TV bills one by one , and one piece of reader feedback ke...
PayPal’s Venmo Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Under Federal Investigation
Venmo is a PayPal-owned money-transfer service that allows users to send payments to each other over the internet. Yesterday, PayPal reveale...
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
Here are ten of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usability in a Consumerist p...
Amazon’s Alexa Now Available On A Device That Isn’t The Echo Speaker
Alexa is spreading her personal assistant wings. The Amazon Echo mainstay is now available on its first device not produced by Amazon: the T...
Language Creation Society: Paramount Does Not Own Klingon Language
As we reported earlier this month, Paramount Pictures is trying to block a crowdfunded Star Trek fan film based, in part, on the studio’s c...
Subway Giving Out Free Breakfast Sandwiches For The Month Of May — But There’s A Catch
In what seems to be an effort to carve itself a share of the fast food breakfast market, Subway is offering customers a free breakfast sand...
McDonald’s Brings Back Mighty Wings In Atlanta: Wait, What?
You might remember Mighty Wings. Back in 2013, McDonald’s tested the breaded and fried wings after months of testing, and they failed, leav...
VW’s Emissions-Cheating Scandal Could Cost Carmaker More Than $18B
It doesn’t pay to cheat. That’s the moral of Volkswagen’s ongoing emissions-cheating scandal after the carmaker announced Thursday that its...
Take This Weight-Loss Supplement And Give Up Your Right To A Jury Trial
If you wanted to get an idea on the ridiculous overuse of forced arbitration, here’s one of the more absurd examples we’ve seen — a weight-l...
Lawsuit Accuses Snapchat Of Negligence For Speed-Capturing Filter
On the list of dangerous and distracting activities you should not be doing while driving, Snapchatting behind the wheel is definitely up th...
Thieves Ram SUV Into Paris Chanel Store, Make Off With Designer Handbags
The lure of luxury goods can be very strong, but thieves in Paris took that desire for designer products to an extreme, police say, using a ...
Dole Restarts Production At Salad Facility That Had 9-Month Listeria Outbreak
Back in January, the state of Ohio and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discovered and investigated Listeria contamination...
American Airlines Flight Turns Around After Bird Strike Leaves 2-Foot Dent In Plane
A bird might be small compared to a jetliner, but get a whole bunch of them together and they can do some pretty serious damage. Passengers ...
Comcast Officially Acquires DreamWorks For $3.8B
The rumors are true: Comcast’s media empire is getting a new addition in the animation department. Comcast is, of course, not just a cable...
Priceline CEO Resigns After In-House Investigation Uncovers Relationship With Fellow Employee
Online travel booking site Priceline announced today that CEO Darren Huston — who has served in that role since January 2014 — will be resig...
Owner Of Radisson Hotel Chain Purchased By Chinese Conglomerate
Just weeks after China’a Anbang Insurance Group bowed out of its bid for the Starwood Hotel brand , another Chinese hotel group has gobbled ...
The Consumerist Guide To Understanding Your Dish Network Bill
When you sign up for telecommunications services — some combination of TV, broadband, and/or phone — you’re told you’ll pay something like $...
5 Things We Learned About The $300 Billion Painkiller Industry
Relieving pain isn’t a simple issue of taking a pill and feeling better. It’s a complicated cornucopia of treatments ranging from over-the-c...
You Now Might Have To Pay Extra If You Keep Your Uber Waiting
Just like you might get annoyed when you have to wait too long for your Uber driver, that driver might be losing money for all the time you ...
Comcast Raising Data Caps To One Terabyte On June 1
Comcast has — deservedly so — been the subject of thousands of customer complaints since expanding its test of data caps in 2015. In an eff...
Girls Scouts Want To Know How Pallets Of Girl Scout Cookies Ended Up At Discount Stores
The only place you’re supposed to be able to get Girl Scout cookies is from the scouts, so how did a bunch of discount stores in South Caro...
JetBlue Pilot Charged With Flying Plane From Florida To New York Drunk
FAA regulations prohibit pilots from consuming alcohol at least eight hours before flying or having a blood-alcohol level higher than .04%, ...