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‘If your name is Brittany…’: FedEx driver calls out customer Brittany after she orders 19-piece sectional from LoveSac

By Alex Samuels Nov 29th
‘Immediately, $1,000 to DoorDash. I’ve never used DoorDash in my life’: New York woman gets 8 calls from unknown number. Then her Klarna account gets hacked

By Braden Bjella Nov 15th
‘They think they were fake pictures’: Power window salesperson gives 2.5-hour pitch to Austin woman instead of ‘free quote.’ Then the homeowner checks her email

By Rebekah Harding Nov 15th
‘They still get paid:’ New Jersey woman orders Uber. Then she catches him sitting in car for 15 minutes instead of picking her up

By Braden Bjella Nov 15th
‘Costco would never!’: Dallas woman gets $500 Williams Sonoma-exclusive Le Creuset Dutch oven with lifetime warranty. Then it cracks

By Rachel Thomas Oct 26th
‘I hear Lowe’s is good’: Florida Best Buy customer spends $22K on appliances, installation. Then the worker installs a broken oven and ‘runs away’

By Braden Bjella Oct 26th
‘Speed Queen is the way to go’: Pittsburgh woman gets $748 Maytag washer after Kenmore floods her home. Then she’s ready to return it after less than 8 hours

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Oct 25th
‘They scammin’’: Uber quotes Atlanta woman $33.05 when she puts her American Express card. Then she switches to a Visa

By Braden Bjella Oct 19th
‘I feel like these companies need better management’: Cleveland woman’s uncle passes away. Then she tries to stop AT&T from billing his account

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Oct 15th
‘They don’t have scales anymore in the fruit department’: Walmart shopper buys 6-pound chicken for $16.42. Then he weighs it at home

By Claire Goforth Sep 16th
‘Please don’t send no more money to Elon’: Woman tries to send her ‘boyfriend’ Elon Musk money while at Florida Publix. Then a worker intervenes

By Claire Goforth Sep 11th
’Scary how they have pics of your car though???’: NYC woman gets a traffic ticket in the mail. Then she realizes she may have been paying someone else

By Rachel Thomas Aug 22nd
‘I’m not the first girl that he has done this to’: Florida woman matches with man on Hinge. Then she discovers he’s a ‘con artist’

By Charlotte Colombo Aug 21st
‘That’s insane to assume people can afford that’: Woman takes 4-minute pedicab after Morgan Wallen concert in Cleveland. Then she sees the total

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Aug 20th
‘They’re doing this shady thing…’: Texas woman calls out Walmart for ripping off the edges off their price tags. Then she sees a blatant markup

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Aug 6th
‘If I can’t buy it at Costco, I don’t need it’: Woman says she was ‘scammed’ by Ashley Furniture. She fell for this loophole

By Claire Goforth Aug 1st
‘[The] same with the high end Samsung phones!’: Woman goes to T-Mobile store. Then she finds out her iPhone is ‘fake’

By Rachel Thomas Jul 20th
‘No Lennar or DR Horton’: Houston woman buys Lennar home. Then it’s deemed ‘uninhabitable’ less than 2 years later. She’s not alone

By Chad Swiatecki Jul 7th
‘Verizon does the same thing’: AT&T customer opens her phone bill. Then she says a $200 mystery charge was added

By Claire Goforth Jun 15th
‘Take it to your garbage outside immediately’: Woman says you shouldn’t let dates leave cell phone chargers in your house. Here’s the scary reason why

By Sabine Joseph Jun 5th