Um, maybe you should just try calling T-mobile again, and tell them the phone won't charge and you would like to return it. If they try to tell you it has to be refurbished, then tell them you want a refund. You deserve a new device.

And why didn't you ask for a new battery?

As for the South Park reference, as funny as it was, that kind of conversation is not productive.

The person who wrote in is also confusing T-mobile with a phone manufacturer. T-mobile does not produce the Sidekick. Danger (recently acquired by MSFT) produces the Sidekick. T-mobile pays Danger, and then brands the phone.

Moreover, no where in the letter does the writer state the purchase location of the Sidekick.

The effort seems incomplete to me: why didn't the writer attempt to return the sidekick to the original point of sale?

While T-mobile's response seems unfortunate, I don't see it as wrong. While they should have been able to recommend contacting Danger some how to resolve the defective part, T-mobile isn't going to bend its return policy because a buyer wasn't cogniscent of it. At least a repair shop was recommended.

Oh well.

and yes, vtext.com is a nice feature, to let you block some real garbage out there.

you really wanna end all spam from your own failure? get a new number.

Consumerist, you are a consumer protection and advocacy blog. Nothing under that umbrella should allow you to spout incomplete and unscientific data as actual science. I'm very disappointed in your incomplete commentary on such claims regarding electromagnetic fields and personal health.

And for not making one stink about a quote that an A.C. Meter is enough to detect these? That's hogwash. Not only is an A.C. Meter the incorrect device to measure EM, it's not even that accurate.

Apparently Jay Slatkin isn't familiar with any of the recent nonsense surrounding EM:
- wifi causing sickness in the UK? Proved to be nonsense. Even children who were interviewed by the BBC said it was idiotic.
- cell phones predisposing people to cancer: inconclusive. The technology has not existed long enough in a consistent state to provide proper controls for study. Moreover, people seem to forget how much Gamma Radiation (oh my god, GAMMA) comes from their TV sets.

And therein is your failure when you posted this article: like Jeff the Riffer said: stupidity of the masses.

Welcome to failure. I hope you can learn from this one.

If you use the appropriate methods of buyer validation, you should be able to sell just fine on ebay.

This article is nothing more than posting the log of a melon head.

Moreover, Steve Jobs has nothing to do with your mom's iPod being stolen. Maybe you should have refused receipt of the package when you saw the seal was broken, or I don't know FILED A CLAIM WITH FEDEX?

Asshat.

Come on Consumerist. You complain about packaging issues, and now you don't see the ecological rationale behind using less paper?

Who said you had to answer HONESTLY? :)

So you should sign your card AND write "ask for ID" if you are so inclined.

On a related note, Bully, a game made by Rockstar, the makers of GTA III and IV, has immediate punishment for any violence against girls.

Do some more research before you complain next time.

PS I'm surprised there was no mention of "hot coffee" here.

(Look at how many thinkpads out there don't have the grounding tip!)

I don't care what the disc looks like! I rented it to watch the movie, not ogle the label.

The degree of the shock I think depends on the capacitive power of the speakears in these headphones: think about it, the more charge that can build up to make heavy bass, the more charge from static electricity can build up to cross the voltage gap between the phones and your ear.

I do find it a big odd that Bose hasn't figured out a fix for this yet.

woohoo! well done!

Seriously, until the dollar gets stronger again, some prices of "luxury items" will just be higher than we expect. Bread is generally not a luxury item; it is a need and commodity. The Eee PC is not.

on the head. There's no threat, there's no mental challenge or reason for vigilance reactions to engage in your body. You became a battery of sorts: you power the flight operations of something miles away. Your skills for split second reactions aren't as important. It's not life or death. It's extra lives.

I've had no trouble on ebay. I'm a modest buyer and seller with ~80 feedback. So I've been around the block, but don't know the whole neighborhood.

And why the hell did someone pay $40 in shipping? HELLO? USPS flatrate box?! FLAT RATE FLAT. Time to go enjoy friday night...

Moreover, the user is looking at different URLs. Therefore you cannot assume the prices will be the same, especially since one is pretexted as "Dell deals" whereas the other is the plain Vostro site.

Invalid and incomplete analysis.