I accumulated 175, 630 PNC Bank Points (April 2007 - lost some) they are good for
48 months. I had to call their Manilla, Philippines call center to redeem them as cash - it took 36 minutes...
I redeemed 170,000+ points for $344.00....
What do you think?? - which are good programs and which are not - when I looked to buy something with them a year ago - the items for purchase were at MSRP (it seemed) and not a good buy...is it better to take cash???...............
Also - The non Item Pricing Law is cheating customers - stores are failing to post visible prices and those that are posted on shelves are too small for seniors or people wearing glasses to see...and stores are just not posting prices on items, leaving customers to lug item up to the cashiers.
Younkers in Lansing had at least 4 items with no price visible and their pricing kiosk was malfunctioning. Now four items don't sound like a lot - but I didn't check for more.
CVS has one price scanner - requiring you to lug any item across the store to it....they also have clearance items with no prices and computer prices, that dont tell you what the previous price was - so you dont know what the amount of savings are for an item.
Staples has a clearance shelf and table where some items are item priced and others that are not - and sometimes the price and computer price don't match up - leaving the buyer at the mercy of the store clerk to give a price.
There is a serious lack of price scanners in stores...and lack of enforcement to make stores comply - now consumers are at the mercy of stores - and their computers, which often are updated properly. Consumers are getting cheated.............................
Mail in Rebates - are cheating Michigan residents out of millions and millions of dollars - because of the extensive requirements that are needed to redeem the rebate: original receipt (what if you want to return item?), original or copied sales receipt, rebate form, etc...and you have to pay to mail it in...and then it may get lost in the mail or at the rebate center, and unless you are very very organized - you may never know that you didn't get a rebate.
Stores should be required by law - to issue the rebates at the cashier....that way customers get their rebates instantly, no muss no fuss...and if item is returned - the customer gets what he/she paid for item.
Contact your state legislator and tell them of your concerns and tell the store manager - you are upset with these failures to protect the consumer and register a complaint with the company via their websites...
We need to say: We deserve better - we deserve to be protected.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
DETROIT MAYOR BING - WRONG; CHARLES PUGH TAKES PAY CUT
Mayor Bing is wrong and misguided to support the shot spotter technology - Detroit needs basic items - not a luxury item that covers such a small area....
It may not even be legal to use Narcotic Forfeiture Fund money to purchase this item - (unless the City bends and twists the facts)
Mayor Bing is being mislead, that this will be better for DPD than other needed items - updating the aging fleet of old police cars - obtaining scout cars with working computers, oscillating lights, sirens...in car video system that works...
DPD needs to comply with DOJ requirements, including a computer to track officer citizen complaints, and jail space to reduce prisoner medical costs...
The Mayor and the media have not addressed the current high costs of prisoner medical costs....
The Mayor MUST now help seat a Retired DPFF Pension Board member, as required by City Charter and State Law....Retirees have given up a 13th check, while the City and active unions benefited from a sick time agreement - and Retirees had their medical costs increased - but the City and others are preventing a Retiree Board Member...that is wrong....
The City just completed Act 312 contract with the DPOA / LSA ...why didn't this include the items the Mayor wanted??? Negotiations will begin in 2012 for a new contract.
DPD needs to raise hiring standards - to get better qualified officers which will reduce lawsuit payouts...
Ps..Detroit City Council President,Charles Pugh - agreed to another $8500. / 10% pay cut on WXYZ TV 7...Anchor Stephen Clark asked about a Council paycut - Pugh danced and dodged saying the Council took a pay cut and that they couldn't cut their own pay because a Compensation Committee sets their pay - Clark asked - 'Why don't you just give it back'...Pugh agreed / $8500...LET'S SEE IF HE FOLLOWS THROUGH...
It may not even be legal to use Narcotic Forfeiture Fund money to purchase this item - (unless the City bends and twists the facts)
Mayor Bing is being mislead, that this will be better for DPD than other needed items - updating the aging fleet of old police cars - obtaining scout cars with working computers, oscillating lights, sirens...in car video system that works...
DPD needs to comply with DOJ requirements, including a computer to track officer citizen complaints, and jail space to reduce prisoner medical costs...
The Mayor and the media have not addressed the current high costs of prisoner medical costs....
The Mayor MUST now help seat a Retired DPFF Pension Board member, as required by City Charter and State Law....Retirees have given up a 13th check, while the City and active unions benefited from a sick time agreement - and Retirees had their medical costs increased - but the City and others are preventing a Retiree Board Member...that is wrong....
The City just completed Act 312 contract with the DPOA / LSA ...why didn't this include the items the Mayor wanted??? Negotiations will begin in 2012 for a new contract.
DPD needs to raise hiring standards - to get better qualified officers which will reduce lawsuit payouts...
Ps..Detroit City Council President,Charles Pugh - agreed to another $8500. / 10% pay cut on WXYZ TV 7...Anchor Stephen Clark asked about a Council paycut - Pugh danced and dodged saying the Council took a pay cut and that they couldn't cut their own pay because a Compensation Committee sets their pay - Clark asked - 'Why don't you just give it back'...Pugh agreed / $8500...LET'S SEE IF HE FOLLOWS THROUGH...
Monday, October 31, 2011
Wayne County Airport Authority - Turkia Mullin...fiasco
The Wayne County Board of Commissioners should ask for the resignation of ALL the Wayne County Airport Authority members...
She is the best
Better than all the rest
Simply the best
Better than all the rest......
OMG...now Turkia Mullin is on the Yellow Brick road to riches, after WCE Robert Ficano, 'threw her under the bus' thus paving the road for her very profitable lawsuits against the Wayne County Airport Authority and Wayne County.
The WCAA fired Mullin, as CEO of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, after hiring her, with no airport experience because 'she was the best candidate'
Now she is not so much a rising star but an embarrassment and Wayne County taxpayers are going to make a very large contribution to her future - retirement fund, in excess of $700,000.
The WCAA Board should be forced to resign - all of them for the hiring and firing of - Turkia Mullin - the Board is now and should be the focus of a federal criminal investigation for their actions and inactions.
She is the best
Better than all the rest
Simply the best
Better than all the rest......
OMG...now Turkia Mullin is on the Yellow Brick road to riches, after WCE Robert Ficano, 'threw her under the bus' thus paving the road for her very profitable lawsuits against the Wayne County Airport Authority and Wayne County.
The WCAA fired Mullin, as CEO of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, after hiring her, with no airport experience because 'she was the best candidate'
Now she is not so much a rising star but an embarrassment and Wayne County taxpayers are going to make a very large contribution to her future - retirement fund, in excess of $700,000.
The WCAA Board should be forced to resign - all of them for the hiring and firing of - Turkia Mullin - the Board is now and should be the focus of a federal criminal investigation for their actions and inactions.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
FIREWORKS - ITEM PRICING, WRONG FOR MICHIGAN
Protect Michigan residents and consumers - propose a law to BAN - mail in rebates !! Thousands of Michigan residents lose hundreds of millions of dollars, by being forced to mail in sales reciepts (some originals), fill out forms, and then use their own stamps to mail them in - and not recieve their rebates or have an avenue to pursue them.
Rebates can be given to customers at the time of purchase, with the rebate deducted back to the store, if the item is returned (so that no one loses).
Item pricing - decieving consumers - leaving them clueless - I dont know how other states do it - but Michigan companies are hurting consumers by not pricing items, so that it can be seen and not having pricing stations withing easy access ...law needs revision. CSV Drugs, Staples, and ACO Hardware, make it hard to find out prices of items, and often don't have shelf pricing - A manager at ACO (W Chicago - Telegraph / Redford) told me customers knock off the pricing slips on the shelves and that ACO doesn't need to have pricing stations (because they cost $1,000 or more) and that big stores like Meijers can afford them.
DANGER: I spent part of my career trying to protect children from dangerous fireworks - and now the Michigan Legislature wants to expose children to injury and death - for more revenue!!Wrong...Illegal fireworks now under Michigan law can cause maiming, injurty and death to children - I have seen children as young as 5 with money in their hands trying to buy fireworks and unscrupulous vedors, ready to take their money.
What's more disturbing is that the Detroit Free Press endorses this lunacy !!
If Ohio and Indiana and other state sell Illegal and Dangerous fireworks - let them - Michigan does not have to emulate or conform to dangerous practices and laws -to get a few more dollars for the State Treasury.
Rebates can be given to customers at the time of purchase, with the rebate deducted back to the store, if the item is returned (so that no one loses).
Item pricing - decieving consumers - leaving them clueless - I dont know how other states do it - but Michigan companies are hurting consumers by not pricing items, so that it can be seen and not having pricing stations withing easy access ...law needs revision. CSV Drugs, Staples, and ACO Hardware, make it hard to find out prices of items, and often don't have shelf pricing - A manager at ACO (W Chicago - Telegraph / Redford) told me customers knock off the pricing slips on the shelves and that ACO doesn't need to have pricing stations (because they cost $1,000 or more) and that big stores like Meijers can afford them.
DANGER: I spent part of my career trying to protect children from dangerous fireworks - and now the Michigan Legislature wants to expose children to injury and death - for more revenue!!Wrong...Illegal fireworks now under Michigan law can cause maiming, injurty and death to children - I have seen children as young as 5 with money in their hands trying to buy fireworks and unscrupulous vedors, ready to take their money.
What's more disturbing is that the Detroit Free Press endorses this lunacy !!
If Ohio and Indiana and other state sell Illegal and Dangerous fireworks - let them - Michigan does not have to emulate or conform to dangerous practices and laws -to get a few more dollars for the State Treasury.
Friday, October 21, 2011
DETROIT CHARTER - REVISION, VOTE NO...NO
VOTE NO NO NO..
On the new Detroit Charter - it does more hame than good.
Detroit does not need districts - there are too many council members - Now, they should have voted to reduce the Council to 5 to 7 members, not make up districts that will eventually be proliticized and patronage will infect them
The Detroit Board of Commissioners is already ineffective and to add more politics, is to, put Detroit residents and police officers in danger.
Vote NO...
On the new Detroit Charter - it does more hame than good.
Detroit does not need districts - there are too many council members - Now, they should have voted to reduce the Council to 5 to 7 members, not make up districts that will eventually be proliticized and patronage will infect them
The Detroit Board of Commissioners is already ineffective and to add more politics, is to, put Detroit residents and police officers in danger.
Vote NO...
Sunday, September 25, 2011
DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION (DEGC), GEORGE JACKSON, M1 RAIL PROJECT
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation executives LIED...
DEGC executives lied to the City of Detoit Planning Commission, in regards to, their Tiger Stadium demolition request, and the DPC knew it, and denied their request.
DEGC executive lied to the Corktown Citizens Council.
NO one has held the DEGC accountable.
Many people suspect that the DEGC was doing the bidding of Mike Ilitch, part of a
group of 'wealthy private investors'. There were many proposals to preserve historic
Detroit Tiger Stadium as an entertainment venue, a tourist attraction and a revenue generator for Detroit. George Jackson and the DEGC did not make a decision 'in the best interests of Detroit' nor did they - 'help walk the deals through the complex process of buying city land, crafting creative financing with a web of tax credits and other incentives and otherwise nurturing deals from concept to ribbon cutting'. He, George Jackson (DEGC) made the decision 'to nix the proposals he (Jackson) finds inconsistent with his mission'.
A Detroit Free Press article,by John Gallagher (9/25/11) mentions several redevelopment projects that the DEGC was involved in, since George Jackson's appointment by disgraced convicted felon former X-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, but does not list, if there was any involvement by indicted Kilpatrick contractor Bobby Ferguson, who also is under indictment, as part of the Kilpatrick Mafia. Ferguson it seems was involved in all development and construction projects, under the Kilpatrick regime - Was the DEGC involved with him???
Jackson is quoted by Gallagher as saying "My job is to make a decision that's in the best interests of Detroit". He is now Mayor Bing's point man on the proposed M-1 Light Rail Plan, which is backed by a "group of wealthy private investors helping bankroll the light rail line".
But if Jackson and the DEGC really did 'what was in the best interests of Detroit', he would put the M1 plan on the back burner - and insist that SMART and DDOT merge into one (1) cohesive bus system that truly serves the residents of Detroit and the suburbs. Detroit residents now stand in the cold, wind, rain, snow and hot sun, for the most part without simple bus shelters, for a bus that is sometimes to most times running slow. People have lost their jobs, waiting for a DDOT bus - that is WRONG. Detroit residents need and deserve a modern efficient bus system. They are already subsidizing the out moded, tax subsidized, People Mover and an inefficient bus system - the M1 should be shelved for now, simply because Detroit can't afford it - but if wealthy private businessmen want to take complete control and financial responsibilites - GO FOR IT...
And why is the M1 running up Woodward - when a more productive and prosperous route would be between Detroit and Ann Arbor (home to the University of Michigan, properous Google offices, research companies, and other 21st Century companies). The answer maybe that wealthy businessmen want subsidizes, federal and state grants, to develop properties, they own and will make them, huge profits at public expense.
Apparently George Jackson, a Southfield city resident, after nine (9) years at the DEGC, not to mention 30 years before that - Jackson can't find a home in a wealty Detroit subdivision or an apartment or condo in Detroit, to his liking???? OMG and he professes to want to make decisions in the "best interests of Detroit"
Hopefully the FBI is investigating the DEGC. Detroit deserves better.
What do you think??? No is the time to speak up.
Read - John Gallegher's Cover Story: Jackson known for down-to-earth attitude, Sunday, September 25, 2011.
DEGC executives lied to the City of Detoit Planning Commission, in regards to, their Tiger Stadium demolition request, and the DPC knew it, and denied their request.
DEGC executive lied to the Corktown Citizens Council.
NO one has held the DEGC accountable.
Many people suspect that the DEGC was doing the bidding of Mike Ilitch, part of a
group of 'wealthy private investors'. There were many proposals to preserve historic
Detroit Tiger Stadium as an entertainment venue, a tourist attraction and a revenue generator for Detroit. George Jackson and the DEGC did not make a decision 'in the best interests of Detroit' nor did they - 'help walk the deals through the complex process of buying city land, crafting creative financing with a web of tax credits and other incentives and otherwise nurturing deals from concept to ribbon cutting'. He, George Jackson (DEGC) made the decision 'to nix the proposals he (Jackson) finds inconsistent with his mission'.
A Detroit Free Press article,by John Gallagher (9/25/11) mentions several redevelopment projects that the DEGC was involved in, since George Jackson's appointment by disgraced convicted felon former X-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, but does not list, if there was any involvement by indicted Kilpatrick contractor Bobby Ferguson, who also is under indictment, as part of the Kilpatrick Mafia. Ferguson it seems was involved in all development and construction projects, under the Kilpatrick regime - Was the DEGC involved with him???
Jackson is quoted by Gallagher as saying "My job is to make a decision that's in the best interests of Detroit". He is now Mayor Bing's point man on the proposed M-1 Light Rail Plan, which is backed by a "group of wealthy private investors helping bankroll the light rail line".
But if Jackson and the DEGC really did 'what was in the best interests of Detroit', he would put the M1 plan on the back burner - and insist that SMART and DDOT merge into one (1) cohesive bus system that truly serves the residents of Detroit and the suburbs. Detroit residents now stand in the cold, wind, rain, snow and hot sun, for the most part without simple bus shelters, for a bus that is sometimes to most times running slow. People have lost their jobs, waiting for a DDOT bus - that is WRONG. Detroit residents need and deserve a modern efficient bus system. They are already subsidizing the out moded, tax subsidized, People Mover and an inefficient bus system - the M1 should be shelved for now, simply because Detroit can't afford it - but if wealthy private businessmen want to take complete control and financial responsibilites - GO FOR IT...
And why is the M1 running up Woodward - when a more productive and prosperous route would be between Detroit and Ann Arbor (home to the University of Michigan, properous Google offices, research companies, and other 21st Century companies). The answer maybe that wealthy businessmen want subsidizes, federal and state grants, to develop properties, they own and will make them, huge profits at public expense.
Apparently George Jackson, a Southfield city resident, after nine (9) years at the DEGC, not to mention 30 years before that - Jackson can't find a home in a wealty Detroit subdivision or an apartment or condo in Detroit, to his liking???? OMG and he professes to want to make decisions in the "best interests of Detroit"
Hopefully the FBI is investigating the DEGC. Detroit deserves better.
What do you think??? No is the time to speak up.
Read - John Gallegher's Cover Story: Jackson known for down-to-earth attitude, Sunday, September 25, 2011.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
ERNIE HARWELL - MICHIGAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME, DETROIT TIGERS
The Inductees into the Mi Sports Hall of Fame should have their plaques hung in a museum at Michigan-Trumbull, which would also house the Ernie Harwell Collection...using a $3.8m Federal grant - and the Mayor and Council should accept Chevrolet's offer to preserve the Tiger Stadium baseball field - that would create a Michigan Field of Dreams - a tourist attraction, and generate money for the City.
The Mayor and Council should exclude George Jackson (who maybe under FBI investigation) and the DEGC from any discussion about Tiger Stadium area use.
The DEGC lied to the Corktown Community Association - telling them that Tiger Stadium
was too dilapidated and unsafe, inside for the group to inspect / tour...
The DEGC lied to the Detroit Planning Commission about Tiger Stadium..
Ken Cockrel told me that Mike Ilitch owed the City - money, for failing to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium per City agreements...Ken Cockrel told me that he would do everything he could to get the money back. One estimate is that Mike Ilitch owes the City up to $12 million dollars...
If it were not for George Jackson, the DEGC and Mike Ilitch - Tiger Stadium - today - would have been a tourist attraction, and entertainment / sports facility that could be producing more revenue to the City, than any costs to the City.
Use the federal grant and the Chevrolet offer to make Tiger Stadium grounds an asset to the City...NOW...
The Mayor and Council should exclude George Jackson (who maybe under FBI investigation) and the DEGC from any discussion about Tiger Stadium area use.
The DEGC lied to the Corktown Community Association - telling them that Tiger Stadium
was too dilapidated and unsafe, inside for the group to inspect / tour...
The DEGC lied to the Detroit Planning Commission about Tiger Stadium..
Ken Cockrel told me that Mike Ilitch owed the City - money, for failing to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium per City agreements...Ken Cockrel told me that he would do everything he could to get the money back. One estimate is that Mike Ilitch owes the City up to $12 million dollars...
If it were not for George Jackson, the DEGC and Mike Ilitch - Tiger Stadium - today - would have been a tourist attraction, and entertainment / sports facility that could be producing more revenue to the City, than any costs to the City.
Use the federal grant and the Chevrolet offer to make Tiger Stadium grounds an asset to the City...NOW...
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