October, 2008

7 Ways dealers make you pay extra

7 Ways Dealers Make You Pay Extra

Your goal is to get the best car at the best price. The dealers goal should be to help you do this, but too often its simply to make as much profit as they can. As a smart shopper, you need to know the common strategies that dealerships use to pad their bottom line–from tricky negotiating tactics to trying to sell you unnecessary extras–and how to avoid playing their game Read More »

Your company is bankrupt, you keep $480m. Is that fair?

It was a showdown to cherish for critics of Wall Street’s culture of enrichment. The grim-faced boss of the bankrupt bank Lehman Brothers was left squirming yesterday as a veteran Democrat roasted him over his multimillion-dollar pay. Read More »

Invasion of the Cassowaries

The most dangerous bird in the world, the Cassowary, is on the move. Read More »

Food makers want to sell cheap food for big profits

Food Makers Want To Sell You Cheap Food

Gone are the days of pushing “premium” food offerings, says the Wall Street Journal -big food manufacturers like Kraft and Campbell are going to be pushing “cheap” foods like tomato soup and cheese singles – foods which are thought of as “easy on the wallet” but are still hugely profitable for the manufacturers. Read More »

Hundreds of car dealerships are apparently doomed

After the failure of the nation’s largest Chevy dealerships brought the plight of the car dealer to everyone’s attention, the bleeding hasn’t stopped. The California New Car Dealers Association says dozens of dealerships in CA have also closed. Read More »

Woman Buys House For $1.75 On EBay

Joanne Smith from Chicago now owns an abandoned home in Saginaw, Michigan, and she only paid $1.75 for it on eBay. Read More »

$10,000 date with Sharapova

Date with Sharapova

This is one of those stories that makes you shake your head in disbelief — first, that it happened, and second, that you didn’t get in on it in time. Seems the lovely Wimbledon champ Maria Sharapova put herself — well, a date with herself, anyway — up for auction at a charity tennis tournament. The winning bid was $10,000, which seems a bit below market value Read More »