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...company, however, has left some consumers grumbling, citing hidden charges, weird flight itineraries and lousy customer service. "My experience is that you don't get what you think you're gonna get," says Herb Zimmerman, a Lancaster, Pa., stockbroker. "The thing that perturbed me most was the excess charges that were added [to the airline-ticket price] for fuel and miscellaneous." Other customers have complained that hotels rated as four-star turned out to be less than stellar. Frequent user Raquel Johnson of Bloomington, Minn., though happy with the service, warns, "Read all the fine print." Priceline does ask customers...
Overall, Priceline savings present a crazy-quilt pattern. The company has succeeded in lining up partnerships with second-tier telephone companies eager to unload excess long-distance capacity, such as Net2Phone and ZeroPlus.com so consumers shopping for long distance via Priceline can get good deals. But with major oil and gas companies such as Exxon-Mobil and Texaco, Priceline has struck out. Oil companies that spend millions building brands are loath to sell gasoline via a site that puts price before brand...
...Neal on the court, but why must everyone adopt a policy of selective vision? What about his inflated salary, obscenely palatial home and the fact that he is an unwed father twice over? Do we really want to lionize a man who, for all his laudable qualities, also exemplifies excess and social irresponsibility? LISA AND JOSHUA VELTMAN Columbus, Ohio...
...guard a title that was rich before/ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The AP has already hit us," said Dave Lambert...
...bull-call spread. That's a fairly conservative play in which you buy one long-term call option and sell another at a higher strike price. You lock in most of the difference--though the stock must go up, and if it goes way up, you lose the excess gain. If you've got a big portfolio, odds are there is an options strategy for you. Talk to a pro on this one. But, hey, how bad can it be if Grandma's doing...