DC Tickets And Tows Stolen Car, Releases It To Thief, Then Sends Collection Agency After Owner [Dc]

After Steve Steinberg refused to pay a parking ticket issued after his car had been stolen, the Washington, DC Department of Motor Vehicles sent a collections agency after him. Steinberg's car was stolen in September of 2006. After he reported the theft, Steinberg says, the DC police and DMV ticketed his car, towed it, then released it to the thief.

Despite having several opportunities to check the car's license plates, the only thing Steinberg got from the police was a $200 ticket for the parking violation that thief had committed. Steinberg sent letters to the police and DMV and informed them that his car had been stolen and he would not pay the ticket, so the DMV reported him to a collections agency.

Redzee Won't Stop Trying To Scam Charlie's Boss [Business Scams]

Charlie has had it with the sleazy hard sell from a Redzee sales guy—after bugging her daily for a month, he started urging her to log in to "her account" on Redzee so she could see the amazingly valuable traffic he was generating for her site. "He kept saying that he had clients waiting out the door for the opportunity that he was offering us, and I quite bluntly told him that he should then answer their calls and accept their business because I was not interested." So what the heck is Redzee?

It's ostensibly a search engine, and it makes money getting businesses to buy prominent placement in their search results. But according to members of this forum , it's nothing but a scam:

RedZee is nothing but bogus. If you have purchased key phrases in their "top 3" ppc [pay per click] program, every single hit that comes from either their search engine or their spybar is a bounce.
 
I'll say this again because it is very important:
 
Every single hit that comes from either their search engine or their spybar is a bounce.
 
Excluding my own testing, in every single case where an IP address has entered my sites from the redzee search engine - either directly from their search engine or from browsers that have the redzee spybar installed, which appends redzee "top 3" ppc results to the top of the Google, MSN or Yahoo organic listings - that IP address goes no further than the landing page. In some cases, the IP bounces out before the entire landing page is requested from the server.
 
I have tested and confirmed this through exhaustive manual analysis of my raw log files. There is absolutely no doubt that the redzee "top 3" is a scam.

Just want warn everyone if (when) you get a call from Redzee.com to hang up the phone and save yourself some time. They are selling prepaid PPC packages for their "search engine" that is suppose to have all of this traffic blah blah blah.
 
Redzee wants you to pre buy for $4-500 worth or clicks...hint if they actually had traffic they wouldn't need you to prepay.

Redzee.com calls my office on a daily basis trying to get my boss to renew our account with him. It's to the point where I feel harassed. I ask the man to leave a message, and he declines and hangs up only to call back the very next day. When I first heard about Redzee, I did some research and they are nothing but a scam. They send web bots and crawlers to your site that hit the front page and then bounce. After a month of this guy calling and lying to me saying that he was making a 'personal' call to my boss, he finally started conversation with me in which I said that I was now in charge of making marketing decisions for our company.
 
He proceeded to tell me that my free trackers that I was using to monitor my web stats were not set up to properly monitor his traffic and that I needed to log in to my account on his site so that he could show me that his site was, in fact, was generating a considerable amount of traffic to my site. He then went on to say that his engine was a tier 2 search engine and that normal trackers don't track the type of search engine that his company uses. And then again said that I should log onto his site for accurate statistics.
 
He kept saying that he had clients waiting out the door for the opportunity that he was offering us, and I quite bluntly told him that he should then answer their calls and accept their business because I was not interested. He stammered a bit before again rambling his spiel about making an informed decision and logging into his site so that I could see the cold hard facts that I could not find anywhere else on the internet. How is what this company doing not fraud? They are selling you a service that they are not providing.
 
I see quite clearly through this scam, however my boss did not. Please post an article about Redzee.com and warn people not to waste their money or their time with this company. We need a reputable source such as the Consumerist to call a spade a spade and a scam a scam!
 
A simple Google search of redzee will show the top two hits as their sites, and the rest are message forums of people complaining about being ripped off.
 
Thanks guys,
Charlie

TIME's "Subscribe For $1.99" Offer Misleading [Fine Print]

First, we want to say thanks to TIME Magazine for naming us one of their top 25 blogs . Now that's out of the way, and we can ask why they're using such a misleading ad on the masthead of their site: "Subscribe to TIME Magazine for just $1.99" it says! Yes, but when you click through to the sign up form, you see that your "subscription" is for six issues—six weeks—and that the fine print indicates you also agree to an auto-renewed fee of $19.95 every six months . We don't mind the $1.99 tryout period, but hiding the real subscription fee in fine print is sneaky. Any magazine with the good taste to recognize our blog should also respect its readers enough to be upfront on the details of its subscription offers.