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Tip: Use One Catch-All Email Address To Collect Restaurant Offers

Tracy Ham and Eggs shared a great tip with other readers on our Pizza Hut spam post earlier today:
My last decent sized company had a "food@company" email. They opted into everyone deals and menu emails and when we wanted to order something we hit that email and searched for what we wanted. Worked out so well I set the same thing up for myself with gmail.

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8:09 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Chris Walters
6,697 views, 20 comments

Latest by sleepydumbdude: My spam accounts eventually got over run also. I got about 350 a day. At work when I was bored more »

security

How To Spot Fake Craigslist And eBay Listings

Planning on doing some buying or selling online? Wired offers some tips on how to spot scammers when you're on eBay or Craigslist. More »

6:20 PM on Fri Oct 12 2007
By Chris Walters
5,899 views, 19 comments

tips

Online Guide To Home Energy Savings

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has just updated its Consumer Guide to Home Energy, which "draws on the latest research on home performance and energy use, translating research findings into the practical steps consumers can take to cut their energy consumption." The guide is offered for purchase, but you can also access highlights from it fro free online. More »

12:23 PM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Chris Walters
1,021 views, 1 comment

Latest by Samantha: Hey your consumer guide on home energy is wonderful. I too found an interesting site Smart Consumer Tips more »

beat the system

How To Fill A 120-Day Prescription For 1/5th Of The Regular Price

Here's a potential way to get certain drug prescriptions filled cheaply—as in, a several-month supply for less than $15—from our own Consumerist reader and commenter Hambriq. He posted it last week and we thought it was worth bringing to the foreground for more readers to see.
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3:41 PM on Wed Sep 26 2007
By Chris Walters
11,283 views, 37 comments

Latest by Hambriq: @tklawsonpharmtech: ...This comment is nearly incomprehensible. What are you trying to say? more »

comments

Reminder: Anyone Can Be A Commenter

Just a friendly reminder: every reader can and should become a Consumerist commenter. The bar to entry is just insanely low: have a somewhat sane point, don't type in all capital letters, and follow the process below... More »

7:34 AM on Fri Oct 20 2006
By consumerist.com
39 views, 10 comments

consumerist kit

Tape On Your Wet Cellphone Won't Help You At All

In response to our post on Saving A Wet Cellphone, and specifically the advice we for some reason gave about trying to trick companies to pay for dropping the blasted phone in the sink by taping over the water damage sticker, an anonymous tipster wrote: More »

6:53 AM on Wed Oct 18 2006
By consumerist.com
788 views, 8 comments

Latest by Troy F.: I mentioned this in the original post. Warranties cover DEFECTS (to the device, not the operator). Unless the more »

tipping

How Much To Tip All Those Grubby Bellhops

There is a large number of petulant, pouting employees ready to freeze you with an icy shoulder if you don't pony up a tip. It can be hard trying to figure out just whom social etiquette dictates you tip and whom can safely be ignored. More »

7:15 AM on Mon Oct 16 2006
By consumerist.com
942 views, 9 comments

Latest by sonic0boom: Funklord, I don't ever tip for room service due to the reasons that you pointed out. It's the same more »

how-to

Kit: Protect Your PC From Viruses for Cheap

And there you go: that's how easy it is to completely brick your newly bought PC. Luckily, it's just as easy to prevent that from happening. So here's one for the Consumerist Kit: how to protect your computer from viral scumbags without paying a dime. This is only valid for Windows users, the suckers. More »

6:32 AM on Wed Oct 4 2006
By consumerist.com
2,823 views, 39 comments

Latest by CaliforniaCajun: There are about 60,000 viruses known for Windows, 40 or so... According to established figures, Windows marketshare = 95%, Mac marketshare more »

idt energy

Don't Get Bilked By IDT Energy

We've been getting a slew of complaints recently about consumers bilked by IDT Energy into signing up for vastly inflated new electricity contracts. Worse yet, IDT will often claim to be agents of your real energy provider. More »

6:04 AM on Mon Sep 18 2006
By consumerist.com
249 views, 1 comment

travel

Even More Ways To Actually Use Your Miles

Our buddy Mark over at Upgrade Travel was a great help to us when we put together our recent How-To: Actually Use Your Frequent Flyer Miles. More »

6:00 AM on Fri Aug 4 2006
By consumerist.com
242 views, Comment