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NetMagazines Online Store: Netmagazines.com is disappointing, unreliable, and a rip-off

Sat, 2 Apr 2005 10:45:42 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - My husband (the man I met on the internet) kept shaking his head and warning me: "One of these days you're gonna get burned shopping on the internet." Well, after years of safe and successful purchases, he may finally be right. Netmagazines.com, a...

Whirlpool GHW9150 Front Load Washer: Forget tv, we're watching the laundry

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:07:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - It began with a tragedy. After less than eight years of mediocre to good service, my top of the line GE Profile top loading washing machine gave up the ghost, dying quietly with a tub full of cold, soapy water and dripping sweatpants. After I closed...

VistaPrint Online Store - vistaprint.com: VistaPrint offers shoddy quality, if it prints at all

Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:49:48 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but thanks to Vistaprint, there is a free business card. Sort of. But as mother always said, you get what you pay for. Well. . . sort of. In the case of VistaPrint, you do get something--if you...

Little. Yellow. Different. Not Better.

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:29:06 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - Somewhere in the faraway land of Clinique, where women have clear complexions and men smell faintly of soap, a river must flow with Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion, a Clinique staple for many years. (The stuff's been around since I started...

Tea and Dignity

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:50:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - Remember the good old days when department store salespeople actually liked to wait on customers? When they approached not in hopes of garnering another quick commission, but instead to greet you, determine your needs, and solve them--with pleasure?...

King Size Direct Online Store: I detest this company

Sat, 2 Oct 2004 01:29:28 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - I've got to talk about my husband's underpants. He's a big guy, and despite the fact that I've dangled the cute little purple briefs in front of him with a wicked grin, he just loves to don his white briefs. When he runs out, I'm off to...

Black beauty keeps cracking. Should I shoot?

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:47:27 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - The harvest gold, coil-topped torture box with the oven door that wouldn't close is no more. If it's any indication of just how dreadful it was, the ghouls that prowl my modest neighborhood at night looking for appliance treasures in the trash left it at...

My microwave has a brain

Sat, 10 Apr 2004 04:08:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - Eight months ago, we ripped out our ugly harvest gold 70s kitchen and began the tortured process of building the kitchen of our dreams. If you are contemplating such a move, the best advice I can give is this: buy lots of plastic forks, learn to triple...

Yet Another Useless Appliance to Clutter the Closet

Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:28:42 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - Okay, I asked for it. Truth is, when I saw a few ads for the Salton Lemonader, I was entranced. I had to have it, and gosh, my birthday was just around the corner. So ignoring all the past woes I've had with birthday appliances, I emailed the link to my...

Hallmark.com: Flowers So Gorgeous, They Impressed My Dad

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:22:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - My mother is fortunate enough to own just about everything her heart desires--lucky for her, but torture for me when it comes to buying gifts. Despite her pleas to stop with the gifts already, I remain grateful and in her debt for all those late...

The Little Icemaker that Couldn't: Tales of the Frigid

Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:04:22 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - When we bought this house, we inherited a truly hideous relic from the 1960s: a harvest gold, itty bitty, brown-fake wood trimmed Hotpoint refrigerator. Having spent the better part of my life with proper side-by-side models, I was horrified by the...

Attention Fat People: Buy This Car

Mon, 8 Oct 2001 03:20:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - Just in case my profile photo doesn't make it perfectly clear, I'm more than pleasantly plump. Use all the polite words you want--but ask me, and I'll tell it straight: I'm fat. I'm strong and healthy, but I'm living in a big body, one that sometimes...

CarsDirect.com: Yes, I bought my car on the internet

Sun, 30 Sep 2001 04:32:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - Five months ago, I used an internet service (Autoweb.com) and the enormous sum of about $30 to sell my eight year old Ford Tempo (less-than-affectionately dubbed Thumpo). In less than two weeks, I had a swarm of less than serious car-seekers, many who...

Big Burgers, Bad Attitudes

Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:40:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - "You won't believe these burgers," said my husband's best friend, a man well aware of hubby's ability to down superhuman quantities of beef. "They're huge."

While huge to hubby means that more than one cow was involved, we hadn't seen M and...

Getting High on Hair Gel

Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:14:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - He was the hairdresser from Hell. Pompous, prancing, and utterly unwilling to listen. Though I'd seen his work on the heads of my friends (and swooned) it was quite clear he didn't want me in his chair.

But I was paying a fortune, so I sat...

Chin-Chin is Yum-Yum

Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:42:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - Three weeks ago, my boss quit to start a new career. Although the man is 71, he's not the sort to sit home and play checkers or frolic with the grandkids. He's used to giving the orders, not taking them. When we asked where he wanted to go for a little...

Continental: the average airline

Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:07:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - This weekend, I became the godmother to my 3 month old niece, Kaitlyn. Since she and her parents are smart enough to live far from the New York metro area, I had little choice but to jump on a plane, gift bags filled with funky little dresses and picture...

Avon Nail Color--I almost threw it in the trash

Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:49:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - For a brief period in my teens, we lived across the street from the world's most annoying Avon lady. Oh, she was nice enough, but when it came time to hit her quota, she knew she had an easy mark in me, a madly-in-love 15 year old who would do...

Bring on the sandals, I have pretty toes!

Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:19:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - Oh, the perils we women endure for beauty. Last Thursday, I was flopped back in the mission style pedicure chair at my favorite salon, head wrapped in truly foul-smelling towels, foil, and chemicals, sipping a Coke and chatting with a similarly garbed...

AT&T Mobile Phone Service in New York: I Dumped AT&T Wireless

Fri, 13 Apr 2001 02:52:51 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - I do not live in outer Mongolia. Nor do I live underground in a cave, gnawing on mammoth bones and grunting at my husband when he invents fire. Oh no, indeed. By the hordes gathered at my Long Island train station every morning, it's safe to assume I'm...

Monte Carlo restored my faith in Vegas

Mon, 9 Apr 2001 01:59:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - A recent business trip to Salt Lake City had me marveling at the joys of a complicated airline itinerary--complete with multiple changes, canceled flights, and a stowaway dog that ran barking through the first class cabin at two am eastern time. With all...

Palace Station, Where a Man Offered Me $20 for 15 minutes

Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:58:54 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - It's been one week since I laid my head down in Palace Station, advertised as the place to stay for Vegas locals. I'm still shuddering--and my suitcase still reeks of cigarette smoke--after being there for less than 10 hours.

The place was a...

Delta's First Class: Two Thumbs Down

Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:34:49 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - They say money talks--but not on Delta. Our latest experience with Delta's first class product has me convinced: spending extra on this airline still doesn't guarantee good service.

Our recent trip to Orlando was booked on TWA, in first class,...

Walt Disney World Dolphin: Our Fifth Honeymoon: the big one

Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:47:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - "Honey," I said to my husband, "if you had to choose between spending our fifth honeymoon in separate beds or spending $70 more a night for a week in a king, what would you do?"

Sigh. I guess the romance is over. He chose the bargain...

The perils of vanity. . . with pain

Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:29:47 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author pbyaeger - In early December, I did something stupid.

The company Christmas gala was one day away, and I wandered into the nail salon with wicked notions: I wanted long, sexy, oval-shaped dragon lady nails. Given that my nails are generally short,...