TWITTER Week of July 25, 2022 (see last week)
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Imagine buying an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax and discovering all of a sudden that you can no longer scan or fax for a reason that has nothing to do with those functions working properly. That's what some HP customers have discovered, and they're not happy about it.
That is our Mouse Print* story this week.
Buzzfeed examined close to two dozen hospital bills from the past 100 years to see how prices have changed. For example, in 1950, it cost a Texas family $54 to have a baby delivered. Today it would cost $17,738! See 20 more amazing examples.
You'd think that an expensive, fancy schmancy new car like a Tesla would be a hot car to steal. Nope. The top two most stolen vehicles for last year were pick-up trucks... and really old ones. See the list of the top 10 hot cars.
Like many companies, DirecTV uses a mandatory arbitration clause in its contracts that prevents consumers from joining together to sue the company when many people are affected by the company's practices. In a long fight, the forced arbitration clause was upheld, and the company raked in over $80-mil in early cancellation penalties.
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