Category Archives: Consumer activism

Web site pet peeves

ZIP code fields that don’t accept the ZIP+4, or only accept it without the hyphen, or only accept it with the hyphen, or let you enter it and then tell you it’s invalid Credit-card number fields that don’t accept spaces or hyphens, or require spaces or hyphens, or tell you to enter the card number… Read More »

Comcast drops the ball yet again

April 13, 2009 Mitch Bowling General Manager and Senior Vice President, Online Services Comcast One Comcast Center 1701 JFK Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19103-2838 Dear Mr. Bowling, Today, my wife received at her Comcast email address, elided@comcast.net, your email message with the Subject line “Apology for Service Disruption”. My wife’s email address is a secondary address… Read More »

US Airways responds to my letter

(Follow the whole story at http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/tag/trapped-in-georgia/.) Executive summary As expected, US Airways refused to refund the $500 we paid to get my wife home after her illness, and instead offered me five $150 travel vouchers, one for each ticket.  I told the customer relations rep that she could send the vouchers if she wanted to,… Read More »

Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College: Bad for my mailbox, bad for the environment, bad for their donors

I have been asking the folks at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College for over a year to stop sending postal mailings to our address.  According to my records, I’ve contacted them on January 4, 2008, November 21, 2008, November 22, 2008, and January 6, 2009.  During that time, they’ve sent me three mailings,… Read More »