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• Sony Offers Refunds for Buggy PSN Games

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:52 am

  Tags: Sony, Medievil, Playstation Store, Psn, Refund, Spyro

  Store customers offering refunds for two games that were apparently suffering from some technical problems. The emails at first noted the PSOne title, Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer, but later messages also noted refunds for MediEvil as well: “You will be aware from the description of the product on PlayStation Store that some variation in

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• You'll love Friday Night Lights, or your money back

  Published: August 22, 2007, 8:35 am

  Tags: Dvd, First Season, Friday Night Lights, Money Back Guarantee, Moneybackguarantee, Nbc, Refund, Season One

  whenever I hear news of a refund that old electric razor commercial pops into my head. Remember that one? No? Okay, moving on: The folks behind NBC's Friday Night Lights are so sure you'll love the first season DVD set coming out next Tuesday that they're offering to refund your money if you don't like it. In order to qualify for the refund,

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• Ads: Apple Gloats, Spits in Early Adopters Faces With iPhone Contextual Ad

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Ads, Apple, Iphone, Price Drop, Refund

  Check out this Sponsored Google Link ad you get when you search for "iphone price drop". Thanks Apple. Thanks. [Google]

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• How will you spend your Apple Store credit?

  Published: September 14, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Credit, Iphone, Refund

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhoneAttention, reckless fanboys with no will power or self control early iPhone adopters. You've certainly heard by now that your $100US Apple Store credit is available. Now that you've got it, the question is, what will you do with it? We're guessing that most customers will use the credit towards something that

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• Computer Software For Taxes

  Published: September 27, 2007, 7:22 pm

  Tags: Financial, Computer Software, Education Expenses, Filing Taxes, Medical Expenses, Saving Money, Tax Refund, Tax Return, Turbotax

  expenses, saving money, tax refund, tax return, turbotaxDid you enjoy reading this post? Buy me a nice cup of coffee to fuel my late night writing sessions and keep the content

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• Beware latest tax refund scam

  Published: September 30, 2007, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Irs, Refund, Scams

  he or she is eligible for a refund. The taxpayer then is instructed to click a link that will take them to the bogus refund page, which copies the appearance of "Where's My Refund?" The official, legitimate "Where's My Refund?" online tracking tool allows you to trace your refund online. At the IRS site, you enter your Social Security number,

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• Apple iPhone GPS software maker offering refunds on Navizon

  Published: October 3, 2007, 4:24 pm

  Tags: Iphone, Applications, Announcements, Gps, Iphone, Navizon, Party, Refund, Third, Virtual

  Navizon is offering up refunds for the full $24.95 purchase price. The refund is only available to those who updated their phones to the new firmware. The company wants to make it clear that they are working on getting the Navizon Virtual GPS service to work with the new firmware and that rumors suggesting that Navizon is halting all

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• Nike T-shirt and German Sex Slaves

  Published: October 14, 2007, 11:57 pm

  Tags: Doing Business In Japan, Innuendo, Nike, Refund, Sexual, T Shirt

  A 40-year old woman didn't know the slogan on her t-shirt had a sexual innuendo until a professor from her tourism group told her wrongly. He also managed to persuade her to change it. The T-shirt -  "I like being on top."He told her the message meant "she wanted sex." Nope...prof...sorry...doesn't mean that. A

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• Professor Teaches 40-year old about Sex - Wrongly

  Published: October 14, 2007, 11:51 pm

  Tags: International Education, Innuendo, Nike, Refund, Sexual, T Shirt

  A 40-year old woman didn't know about the connotation of the slogan on her t-shirt until a professor from her tourism group persuaded her to change it because he thought the words were embarrassing. The T-shirt -  "I like being on top."He told her the message meant "she wanted sex." Uh...prof...sorry...but that's

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• Fat refund for fraud-based tax payments

  Published: October 21, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Business, Refund, Taxes

  a $440 million federal tax refund. The money back was in connection with taxes HealthSouth paid on $2.7 billion in fraudulent profits. The IRS issued the refund because the taxes were assessed on profits that were not real. The check was for $296 million in overpayments and $144 million in interest. This is one case where I'm glad

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• Are you missing some tax money?

  Published: November 19, 2007, 8:09 am

  Tags: Irs, Refund, Taxes

  approaching. Online refund tracking: If you think some of that money earning interest for the federal government could be yours, you can use the IRS' Where's My Refund online tracking tool. Just go to the official refund Web page, and have last year's 1040 handy. You'll be asked to type in your Social Security number, filing status

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• IRS considering delaying start of 2008 tax-filing season

  Published: December 2, 2007, 12:26 pm

  Tags: Filing, Irs, Politics, Refund, Taxes

  to process returns and issue refunds in a timely manner and imposes significant burden on taxpayers." Just how big a burden is shown in the table below. The 2008 filing season is scheduled to begin Jan. 14, 2008. The Board estimated that a two-week delay in the start of the filing season could delay the processing of 6.7 million returns

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• Give yourself an end-of-year pay raise

  Published: December 4, 2007, 9:01 am

  Tags: Finances, Refund, Taxes

  so that they'll get a big refund check. And there are a lot of such taxpayers. According to IRS figures, in 2007 more than 103 million taxpayers received refunds; that's 76 percent of taxpayers getting money back, with the average check coming to almost $2,300. Those folks, on average, could have been pocketing an extra $191 a month.

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• Refund anticipation loans under the IRS gun again

  Published: January 3, 2008, 5:12 pm

  Tags: Filing, Irs, Refund, Taxes

  to inappropriately inflate refund claims." Did you hear that big "Duh!"? It was from those aforementioned consumer advocacy groups. "In general, RAL amounts are capped by the amount of the refund claimed on a tax return," says the IRS. "Therefore, a preparer who inappropriately inflates the amount of a refund is able, directly or

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• Refund Lenders Feel IRS Heat

  Published: January 4, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Refund, Lenders, Feel, Irs, Heat, Internal Revenue Service, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc, H Amp R Block Inc, John Hewitt, Dan Smith, Liberty Tax Service, Michael Yerington, Virginia Beach, Yerington, National Consumer Law Center

  The Internal Revenue Service said it may try to prevent tax preparers such as Jackson Hewitt Tax Service and H&R Block from offering customers refund loans and audit insurance because those products can encourage fraud.

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