City boy: ‘We were aggressive with our sales pitch and didn’t give risk warnings if we could avoid it’. Photograph: Grant Smith/Rex Features
Pacific Continental Securities was possibly the UK’s most notorious firm of stockbrokers. Its team of young salesmen used high-pressure tactics to lure clients into buying shares that for most investors were almost a [...]

How bad does Circuit City want your money? So much so that the retailer is willing to “instal” backward compatibility on your Xbox 360. Reader Brad snapped a photo of this sign at Circuit City in Newport Beach, California, which reads:
Want to play your original xbox games on your new Xbox 360?Backward compatibility on the [...]

Greg Miller, the son of Bette Miller, the woman who is in a dispute with Bank of America over a $5,000 bond bought in 1984 from Rainier National Bank, has written in to tell his side of the story. Here’s his letter.
Greg writes:
Having read all about this on your web site, I can see there [...]

Level of upset :: 2
Business in question :: Dooby restaurant (packwood, WA 98361)
Complaint :: cheating on the quality and quantity of food; lacking sincerity and bad services
Level of upset :: 4
Business in question :: DeWalt Tools & their merchant DHC Supplies [...]

Level of upset :: 4
Business in question :: LG Electronics
Complaint :: I purchased a DVD Recorder/VCR Comination. It did not work straight out of the box. I called LG, and they advised me to have [...]

Business in question :: MLB.com
Complaint :: I ordered a jersey as a gift order on the 25/12/05 from the MLB.com online shop which was subsequently lost on the way. I am an international [...]

Level of upset :: 4
Business in question :: Clickbank
Complaint :: I bought an e-book and submitted my payment on-line to clickbank. I was promised a refund if my dogs behavior didn’t change. I [...]

Level of upset :: 3
North and South Truck Tire Sales,Inc.
Complaint :: Don’t pay there bills.Do any work or sale them anything, get your money first. There in North Carolina
Level of upset :: 3
Business in question :: Blue Haven Pools aka Diving Lady in Az
Complaint [...]

Title :: interesting site
Pertaining docs ::
Comments :: I’ve been reading your posts and also some of the letters. There is sure no shortage of cons and thieves posing as businesses. I recognize a [...]

Level of upset :: 4
Business in question :: Registerfly
Complaint:: i received an email today from registerfly.com saying i had 2 domain names about to expire this month.
how is this a scam?
first of all, the 2 names are for .info which i have NEVER registered.
second, [...]