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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 24 Nov 2009 20:30 : \____
> nessuno pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> <Quote>
>> So, if I go directly to butterflyphoto.com, I pay $699 with 0%
>> cashback. If I use Bing Cashback, I pay $758 with 2% cashback, or
>> $742.84. Using Bing cashback has actually cost me $43.84, giving an
>> effective cashback rate of -6.27%. Yes, negative cashback! Is this
>> legal? False advertising? I don?t know, but it?s pretty sketchy.
>>
>> The problem doesn?t end there. Using Bing has tainted my web
>> browser. Butterfly Photo set a three month cookie on my computer to
>> indicate that I came from Bing. Any product I look at for the next
>> three months may show a different price than I?d get by going there
>> directly. Just clicking a Bing link means three months of potentially
>> negative cashback, without me ever realizing it. I?m actually afraid
>> to use their service even just to write this, because it may cost me
>> money in the future. If you?ve been thinking about trying out Bing
>> Cashback, you may want to rethink that.
>>
>> To be fair to Microsoft, they aren?t offering negative cashback on
>> every item at every store, but I know of more than a few instances.
>> Let?s see if/when they decide to remove this ?feature.?
>> </Quote>
>>
>> http://bountii.com/blog/2009/11/23/negative-cashback-from-bing-cashback/
>
> Bing, v. -- To extract money from, as in "Microsoft binged my wallet."
You have to have been having a binge with the bender to have actually used Bong [*puffs smoke*]
over Google. :-D
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