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Capital One Hates Deaf People

Why? Because a deaf person filled out an application for a credit card and ran into relay services hell. (Something that I’ve experienced myself as well).

Holy crap. Just went through hell trying to finalize my application for a credit card when they wouldn’t even accept the relay calls for some reason and kept shuffling me around. I have never been so ANGRY before. Apparently, they don’t like dealing with deaf people!

Here’s another reason not to have a Capital One card:

Capital One’s Credit Trap

“Cap One… is simply aiming to maximize fee income from debtors who may be less sophisticated and who may not have many options because of their credit history. By offering several cards with low limits, instead of one with a larger limit, the odds are increased that cardholders will exceed their limits, garnering over-limit fees. Juggling several cards also increases the chance consumers may be late on a payment, incurring an additional fee. And if cardholders fall behind, they pile up over-limit and late fees on several cards instead of just one. “How many more ways can I fool you?” says Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who has written extensively on the card industry. “That is all this is about.”

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Update: Sorry this is a repeat posting but it was deleted by mistake during re-editing for XHTML Validation.

This was written by an Indian living in Northern California, but subsitute “Indian” for “Deaf” and it’s a pretty good description of what MLM does in the deaf community.

I Hate Indian Network Marketers So Much

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think all Network Marketing (MLM) is bad. I’m in one myself. However I don’t go out recruiting my deaf friends and associates and I do earn a check every month.

There’s a lot of information about MLM (good, bad and ugly) so I’m not going to be the first place to ask. Read the blogs and MLM forums and find out for yourself.

Found this on Consumerist.com

Chipin - the easy way to collect money.

Just add a few lines to your website and come up with a reason for collecting money - beer money, charity, bail money, whatever it is for.

Then promote and collect via PayPal.

A mom figured out a fool-proof way to prevent iPod from playing too loudly:

Christine Ingemi got tired of telling her four kids to stop blasting their iPods. So she did something about it.

IHearSafe earbud-style headphones are designed with a built-in volume control or audio limiter that doesn’t exceed 80 decibels, she said.

“Kids can’t turn it up, no matter what,” Ingemi said.

iHearSafe was designed and made in the USA. Go check it out!