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Well, the other day me and the lady went to Circuit City. We were looking at car stereos, after which we were just walking around the store looking at nothing in particular. Anyway, my girlfriend saw a laptop bag that she was interested in. Naturally, there are no prices on anything and circuit city so we had to find someone to do a price check. Of course, no one could be found to help us, so I decided look online while she went to hunt someone down.

Don't get me wrong, I love my DirecTV and would NEVER go back to comcast cable TV (not quite as bad as time warner, bright house, whatever they're called now), but this direcTV "go green" thing doesn't make sense to me.
DirecTV is pushing people to go to paperless billing. In fact, they won't let you view your detailed bill online unless you go paperless. That's fine, I'm sure if all their millions of customers went paperless they would save a ton of money, make sense.
So I got my paper bill today - and what I don't get is in the envelope alongside the bill I have:
*MLB promotion
*Refer a friend promotion
*UFC promotion
*Moving installation instructions
all full color flyers.

If they're trying to save money, why double/triple the cost of paper & ink?

Ok, I know I will get called cheap for this, but I feel this is worth posting. Drink (non-alcoholic) prices at restaurants are out of control. Each time I went out I would put the price of a Coke in my Treo. Below are the prices for restaurants in Jacksonville Fl, from 6/2007 - 12/2007.

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