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uh what? hasnt been that way for me. might be different for everyone i guess.
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to be fair, they also mail the winner a shiny golden pile of poop trophy.
http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/files/original/goldenluckyshit.jpg
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yea, but that is like saying Ford is a worse company because they charge you more for your car year over year than Hot Wheels...
EA is screwing you our of 30%-40% of what you are getting...BoA is...
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not surprising. thankfully i just give EA money for COD games....still stupid of me but...wth
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Yeah, you do - the previous year's version, bought used :D
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Dear Consumerist,
Thanks. Could you also please tell me what color the sky is while you're at it?
XoXo
-Tools
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EA's response
EA, you don't make games. Your developers do.
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Truth, especially the last sentence.
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Forbes:EA is the Worst Company in America, Now What?
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Right, and as I said, "It sets a bad precedent and is easy to fix." $7500+ taxpayer subsidy for every Chevy Volt? Come on.
If people still needed cars to buy, they could have bought cars...
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Alright, I feel I need to temper all this red-blooded 'Merican obsession with 'capitalism.' Now, I work on Wall Street guys - I'm not a pinko Commie or something. But I think it's very important to...
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It sets a bad precedent and is easy to fix.
Calling GM "Government Motors" isn't far off the mark.
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Only about 20%, didn't know about that income figure though (link = source)...that does make it a bit sickening.
They are selling near 2000 a month though now...To sit and think about the...
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http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/bailouttracker/#AIG
I think Curtie's point is that comparing the bailout money allocated to the automotive sector with the bailout money...
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depends on your belief in the role of government and the government's role in capitalism.
letting the banks fail would have been bad, see era after the run on the banks in 1929/1930. letting...
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it actually wasn't in small print. it was part of the table that showed the APR/APY and fees. people just never really got it. the average consumer is a moron.
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do not remember the exact cost. It was right before the rates went up - and yes it was points - 0.x something - not sure exactly and not where the papers are. we shopped around and went with the...
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I saw 7 year arms advertised at 2.5%. I didn't read what the APR was though.
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wouldnt touch those with a 10-ft pole in this market. not unless you were 100% sure you were gonna move in the near future.
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3%
we paid a little to get it down. but not much :) And the lifetime savings was worth it for the savings of the 0.x%
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and this is why i refuse to buy any games or products made by ea.
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True, the dislike of a company that I can largely ignore by simply not buying video games vs disliking a company which ended up with my mortgage even though I never dealt with them and helped the...
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If people used their credit responsibility, and paid their bills on-time, chances are they wouldn't be charged 30% interest. A lot of people don't get that credit is a privilege, not a right. The...
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:highfive::applause:
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I wonder how many votes were video gamers and how many were the "wives of EA" or whatever that fiasco was. IIRC, tons of people that were family members of people that worked for EA vehemently hated...
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Its funny how most credit card agreements are 10X bigger than mortgage closing documents.
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well if I loan someone money at 30% and it was a mutural agreed upon with no force or coercion, i'm a loan shark and it is illegal
when a bank loan someone money at 40%, it is perfectly legal
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lehman failed late 2008. TARP was bush, you are right.
gm bail out was in mid 09, not part of tarp. tarp did bail out GMAC but gm and gmac are seperate companies.
can credit bush, thats fine...
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Weren't those technically on Bush's watch and set into motion before Obama took office?
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Agreed, people blame banks and lenders for our lovely economy, but no-one forced these people to buy these inflated houses. If people simply understood how to do some math and figure out that there...
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However, banks also have to approve these loans, and when they approve loans that they know people can't afford, they're just as bad as the consumer. Then the banks get into financial trouble...
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it was called universal default. all the companies had it. for some reason i want to say it was outlawed.
basically you miss a payment and they can jack your rate up. or if you missed a payment...
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this is true if the person with whom you are entering an agreement does not give advice with the signing of the contract. You expect their advice to be accurate and in good faith. Considering people...
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True, but government bailing out "too big to fails" and using taxpayer money to subsidize new cars and destroying the old ones and privatizing profits while socializing losses isn't "capitalism."
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Link fail..keeps sending me to SD's main page.
Good effort, but needs a little more randomness. You kept it all on money.
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nothing about governemnt regulation is capitalism.
if 15billion dollars keeping a few hundred thousand people employed, i'm ok with it. you'd spend about 8 billion in unemployment ($400 wk * 99...
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but who caused the banks to require the bailout?
who allowed them to get so big that they had the economy by the balls in the first place?
You can't blame just the person who lit the match...
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Deusxmachina: First of all, I'm very sorry to resort to ad hominem attacks, but Rick Santelli is a fcking idiot. Sorry. The guy hasn't the first clue what he's talking about, and is more adept at...
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obviously, you guys haven't read the articles on consumerist.
their editors were fairly upfront about their disbelief that EA won.
they didn't pick the winner, they just offered a open poll,...
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And people shouldnt be upset with BoA over the ATM fees they almost tacked on. BoA was just reacting to a wack Government mandate. Bunch of politics they were playing there, decrease fees banks can...
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