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Websites that lure consumers with the promise of free credit reports are merely trying to get you to sign up and pay for monthly subscriptions to credit-monitoring services.
Are these services worth paying for? For most people, the answer is absolutely not because the government mandates that you can check out your credit score for free. See the NY Times story, and the government-produced video spoofing a very popular TV ad.
A frantic search for safe, guaranteed monthly income in retirement is leading government and big employers to make their 401(k) plans look a lot more like a traditional pension. But you will still have to self fund
Daily deal giant Groupon is known for its peculiar sense of humor. There was the time the site “bought” April Fool’s Day. The introduction of marketing gimmicks like the creepy virtual discount wheel called “Clicky” can only be attributed to some offbeat sense of what’s amusing. And of course, from the beginning, subscribers have been reading Groupon’s trademark absurdist, careful-not-to-offend descriptions for deals arriving in their in-boxes. The fact that there’s a network sitcom in the works featuring Groupon is apparently no joke, however.
