Amazon emailed Prime members today, letting them know that, beginning January 29, Prime Video will begin including ads within programming. Of course, for an additional $2.99 per month, you can maintain the ad free experience you have had until now. Amazon wants you to know that you still get lots of other value out of your prime membership, so this is not so bad. Prime is a very compelling value. Prime members enjoy a wide range of shopping, savings, and entertainment benefits, including: More than 300 million items are available with free Prime shipping and tens of millions of More…
MegaMillions Irresponsible And Bizarre Promotion January 1, 2012
It shouldn’t come to our readers that lottery tickets are not a good investment and are certainly not a retirement planning tool. But we were surprised to see “Save For Retirement” prominently featured at megamillions.com presumably as something MegaMillions might allow one to do. This is an irresponsible and dangerous message. We understand that people enjoy buying lottery tickets for the chance it gives them to dream of a major change in their lives. However, lottery tickets are not a retirement saving tool. We call upon MegaMillions and the states behind it to immediately cease this misleading promotion and stick More…
Be One of The People Paying their Credit Card Bills On Time August 17, 2011
Late Credit Card Payments are the lowest they’ve been in seventeen years. This is despite an increase in the use of credit cards. People are cutting back on the number of cards they carry and accumulating less debt in general. Credit cards are great…if you pay them off. It is often too easy to lose track of how many money you have because you can spend much more with a credit card. As long as you pay off the bill by the due date, a credit card is essentially a short-term loan. The downsides only come when you can’t pay. More…