Category: "Public Service Articles"
Aetna OTC & Healthy Food Extra Benefits / Rewards Program - 2026 Information
By Paul Rudoff on Feb. 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM in Public Service Articles
For the past few years, I have been documenting the results of my tests with Aetna's OTC & Healthy Food Extra Benefits card, as well as Aetna's Rewards program. As of 2026, the two programs are essentially one and the same, so I thought I should… more »
eBay Bad Seller Alert - Brian West (cottoncatfish)
By Paul Rudoff on Feb. 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM in Public Service Articles
This is another in a series of articles about eBay, who covers up the deceitful business practices of its sellers, while turning its feedback system into an utter joke. I will do my best to inform the public about eBay's scummy practices and the bad… more »
Aetna Forces Members To Use Liberty Dental; Has So Many Restrictions It Barely Counts As Insurance
By Paul Rudoff on Feb. 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM in Personal, Public Service Articles
This is the latest in a series of articles about the dental hassles that I have had to go through due to being poor, and thus not being able to afford proper dental insurance. It was never meant to be a series of articles, but I have had to endure so… more »
Why You Should Never Use A Physical Burger King Gift Card In The App
By Paul Rudoff on Feb. 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM in Public Service Articles
After years of sending feedback to Burger King's base-level (and useless) customer service, and posting it on this site back in 2020 and 2022, last month I finally found a way to get my feedback through to the appropriate party at Restaurant Brands… more »
UPS Sends Import Fee Bill For eBay Item A Week After Delivery
By Paul Rudoff on Feb. 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM in Public Service Articles
Although the eBay logo is at top, and I am adding this to my series of articles about eBay, the fault for the matter also lies in the hands of UPS. In regards to "import fees", both are equally responsible in never informing buyers of how much they… more »
Tripp Lite Internet750U Review + Newegg & Eaton Plug Deceit
By Paul Rudoff on Jan. 20, 2026 at 7:25 PM in Reviews, Public Service Articles
I use three Battery Backup UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) units in my house for all of my electronics, such as my computer and accessories, and my two televisions and related components. For many years, I had three CyberPower EC850LCD units, but… more »
Uber Constantly Charges Unwarranted and Unfair Wait Time Fees
By Paul Rudoff on Jan. 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM in Public Service Articles
My family started using Uber for our twice-monthly supermarket shopping trips since late November, after dealing with an All Island Taxi driver who extorted us for money after bringing us home. She refused to open the trunk, so we could unload our… more »
Walmart Delivers Package to Wrong Address, Provides No Proof of Replacement or Refund
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM in Public Service Articles
I have had the displeasure of dealing with horrible customer service, but I think that my current experience with Walmart.com has proven to be the worst. more »
Fake Autographs Bought at Sept. 2025 Collectibles Yard Sale (Fan Mail Direct & Andso PR COAs)
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM in Other, Public Service Articles
On Sunday September 28, 2025, I went to a "collectibles yard sale" in Valley Stream, New York, where I purchased five fake autographed photos, each with a Certificate of Authenticity from Fan Mail Direct (one from Andso PR). I purchased them in the… more »
eBay Sellers Who Gift-Ship From Amazon (dionis_mart)
By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM in Public Service Articles
This is another in a series of articles about eBay, who covers up the shady business practices of its sellers, while turning its feedback system into an utter joke. I will do my best to inform the public about eBay's scummy practices and the bad sellers… more »
Crappy Multi-Disc All-in-One DVD & Blu-ray Cases
By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM in Home Video, Public Service Articles
As evident by the Reviews section here on The Corner Penthouse, I am an avid collector of physical media. For disc-based video formats, I've been collecting them since the mid-1990s when I bought my first laserdisc player. I graduated to DVD around 1997… more »
eBay Makes Buyer Wait Three Weeks For Refund Of Unshipped Item From Unresponsive/Dead Seller
By Paul Rudoff on Jul. 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM in Public Service Articles
This is another in a series of articles about eBay, who covers up the shady business practices of its sellers, while turning its feedback system into an utter joke. I will do my best to inform the public about eBay's scummy practices and the bad sellers… more »
Verizon's Safelink Wireless Refuses To Replace Fire Hazard Phone
By Paul Rudoff on Apr. 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM in Public Service Articles
SafeLink Wireless, the government-supported Lifeline service of TracFone Wireless, a Verizon company, provides free cell phones to low-income Americans. I have had a free cell phone from Safelink since 2016. For the first six years, they saddled me with… more »
United Healthcare Deceives With Outdated Dental Provider Search & Representatives Who Lie
By Paul Rudoff on Mar. 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM in Personal, Public Service Articles
I've already written about all of the dental woes I've had because dentists will usually stop accepting my insurance (Medicaid) after a few years, and then I'd have to find a new dentist. The latest variation on that was last year, when the insurance… more »
Stop & Shop's New Savings Station Kiosk Disables Internet On Some Customer's Cell Phones
By Paul Rudoff on Mar. 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM in Public Service Articles
Sometime in February 2025, the Stop & Shop supermarket chain here in the northeast United States installed "Savings Station" kiosks in their stores. Unfortunately, these kiosks have caused some customers to lose internet access on their cell phones,… more »
GameStop Employee Refused To Process Return/Exchange *With* Receipt Without A GS Account
By Paul Rudoff on Mar. 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM in Public Service Articles
Well, I guess it's now 100% confirmed that GameStop hires the worst people to staff its stores, and provides the worst customer service. After the incident in October 2022 with ex-store manager Brendan Guerrin, and GameStop corporate never providing me… more »
eBay Seller (grimreaper430) Makes Unauthorized Use of USPS Priority Mail Packaging
By Paul Rudoff on Jan. 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM in Public Service Articles
This is another in a series of articles about eBay, who covers up the deceitful business practices of its sellers, while turning its feedback system into an utter joke. I will do my best to inform the public about eBay's scummy practices and the bad… more »
eBay Lets Sellers (Pop.Market) Disable Messaging So Buyers Can't Contact Them
By Paul Rudoff on Jan. 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM in Public Service Articles
This is another in a series of articles about eBay, who covers up the deceitful business practices of its sellers, while turning its feedback system into an utter joke. I will do my best to inform the public about eBay's scummy practices and the bad… more »
United Healthcare Healthy Benefits Plus OTC & Healthy Food Extra Benefits Card - 2025 Information
By Paul Rudoff on Jan. 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM in Public Service Articles
In 2023 and 2024, I wrote about the extra benefits plan that was provided to me by NationsBenefits through my Aetna health insurance plan. Thanks to Aetna fucking me over with my dental plan, I had to switch insurance companies to United Healthcare.… more »
eBay Removes Feedback That Exposes Seller's (Azsa-9617) Deceitful Business Practices
By Paul Rudoff on Jan. 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM in Public Service Articles
This is another in a series of articles about eBay, who covers up the deceitful business practices of its sellers, while turning its feedback system into an utter joke. I will do my best to inform the public about eBay's scummy practices and the bad… more »