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As I noted in a number of bilious posts, I got hosed in a hijacked auction and then hosed again by both eBay and PayPal.
PayPal & eBay–it’s like being beaten by two completely different kinds of whips.
So here’s the deal on what went wrong and how I got my money back.
If you buy something in […]
Consumerist.com often rights about degenerate sales practices of corporations, but they got in hot water with Dell for one of their more benign posts, Confessions of a Former Dell Sales Manager.
Dell got pissed off sufficiently to turn lawyers loose on Consumerist, which refused to back down.
And now Dell has pretty much admitted it was wrong […]
Trip Hawkins and various permutations of Palm have cranked out a ton of PDAs over the years, and now the company is cranking out a $9 dividend to holders of the $17 stock, all as part of a recapitalization that will give 25% of the company to Elevation Partners and put $440 million in debt […]
It’s not even an election year, and the pot’s a-bubblin. Whatcha need?
HP’s Hurd scores $8.6 million bonus. And in a generally scandalous year. Seems like that’s on top of other comp and the million dollar plus sale of stock he executed when he was being grilled about the spying thing.
Israel Sex Fiasco. […]
Now we hear from the Chron’s Matier & Ross that former HP vice president Karl Lamb says HP purportedly paid off a Dell executive in Japan in order to cop trade secrets relating to Dell’s imminent launch of a printer business.
But Lamb happens to be one of four people HP is suing for […]
When we left off, Larry Ellison’s 454 foot yacht was taking on water most expensively. Why? Because his henchmen failed to foresee Bill Gates deployment of mini-subs to puncture the hull and ruin all of Larry’s Shai Agassi dartboards. The penalty for failure at Oracle? Ask any salesperson who failed to […]
Written by Paul Springer for b5media.
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