Consumer Thoughts

eBay To Go is eBay’s latest web widget that lets you embed any auction (not just your own) or eBay search results into your website.

I’m not sure I entirely understand this commercial. Is he supposed to be an actor? Why does he say the little rhyme once in a normal voice, then in his little boy voice?

I hadn’t been to TGI Friday’s in four or five years, until this past weekend. We have a new one that’s only a few months old. It seems like their menu has shrunken drastically - it was so disappointing. I wasn’t in the mood for a burger, so the only thing I [...]

Todd Goldman, the artist behind “David and Goliath,” blatantly plagiarizes work from other artists… even Schoolhouse Rock!
Kind of a Big Dealio

Google’s shopping comparison search engine, Froogle, has been renamed to Google Product Search.  More details here on CNet News.

Broadband Internet providers are increasingly imposing early termination fees to keep their customers from straying away for a better deal somewhere else.
“Cancellation penalties are anti-competitive and deprive consumers of the benefits of competition in the markets where there is more than one broadband provider,” says Kenney. “The justifications for them are suspect. Once enticing consumers [...]

Just so we are all clear, cell phones are not banned from flights for safety. They’re banned for crowd control.
The airlines fear “crowd control” problems if cell phones are allowed in flights. They believe cell phone calls might promote rude behavior and conflict between passengers, which flight attendants would have to deal with. The [...]

I entered CrunchGear’s Laptop Horror Stories contest which clearly states here that entries are to be 200 words maximum. (Here is a list of all entries - mine is #4, Rock and Crunch.)
One of the entries was clearly much longer, so I e-mailed CrunchGear stating that it was unfair. At that time only 2 [...]

If you’ve bought a single song, or a few songs, off an album from iTunes, now you can get the entire album at full cost minus the price you paid for the individual songs. Right now there’s a grace period in which you can do this with all your songs, but in the future, [...]