My Desultory Blog

RichC | January 12, 2018

Last spring I was so disgusted with the Time Warner to Spectrum change for cable and Internet along with their price increase that I switched to Cincinnati Bell Fioptics. The painful rewiring and equipment switch worked to my favor and lower the bill with the help of a representative that handled everything as if he […]

Category: Business, Misc, Technology | No Comments »
Tags: billing, cable, cincinnatibell, customer service, fail, hassles, internet, rant, spectrum, twc

RichC | December 16, 2015

When you begin to depend on prompt order fulfillment and reasonable delivery times from online retail stores, it feels like we’ve gone back a decade or two? On Cyber Monday, November 30th, I placed an order with Target thinking there was plenty of time before last minute Christmas ordering. I entered both my email address […]

Category: Holiday, Misc, Personal, Shopping | No Comments »
Tags: fedex, Holiday, rant, shipping, target, usps

RichC | November 29, 2014

I received a letter from Liberty Mutual, my auto insurance company, earlier this month “appreciating my loyalty”  … until I looked at the details – Eligible in 2019 — hmm, must be a mistake? So … I first called the number on the bottom of the letter and reached the corporate folks so that they […]

Category: Advice, Automotive, Misc, Personal | 2 Comments »
Tags: auto, insurance, liberty mutual, loyalty, policy, rant

RichC | September 13, 2012

I’m finding a nutty pricing structure for for my morning newspaper and a questionable explanation (or lack of one) from Dow Jones in my attempt to renew my Wall Street Journal subscription. It sort of reminded my of a Twitter conversation last week on how  Amazon sells some paperback and hardback books cheaper than they […]

Category: Financial, News, Personal | 4 Comments »
Tags: digital, newspaper, rant, subscription, wsj