Jean Machine sells brand name casual wear in denim and corduroy. Brand names include Guess, mavi, and others. More details at JeanMachine.com

Jean Machine has a number of stores in Ontario. Jean Machine store locator

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If Geography lessons were that fun in school I wouldn’t have ended knowing the names of less the 20 countries in the world. Check out this world map game and see what score you get.

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I got an email from J.T. regarding her unfortunate experience with a car dealer. She asked me to post it here so that readers can give her advice. J.T. I’m sorry I’m not very familiar with car dealers (that’s why I never post about them) but hopefully someone reading this can help.

Please leave her a comment if you have any advice or suggestions.

Hey guys.

My boyfriend got a car in May of this year and had several problems in terms of the information that was fed to him. Here’s the story:

The situation began on the day he visited the dealership and was introduced to a sales representative by the name X, the person responsible with helping out with his transaction process. Mr. X before signing any papers had provided him with confident understanding that the $1000.00 deposit would be refunded if for any reason he would not want to close off the deal. Trusting that Mr. X was an honest and loyal sales representative he signed the papers off for a lease. Approximately a week later, we returned to the dealership stating that he would want to receive the deposit back. We were then consulted by Mr. X’s manager who stated we were unable to do so and cannot even forfeit the deposit.

We had originally wanted to purchase this vehicle under a financing plan but was advised that the price to lease was a cheaper and smarter method to obtain the Mazda 3. Mr. X had made it clear that during anytime within the lease period he was qualified to switch to a financing program. At the end of November this year, he decided it was time for me to switch to the financing plan. He had phoned back to the dealership who advised him that he would need to call the head office to obtain this information. Once he had contacted the head office they told him only the dealership would be able to provide him with this information. This processing of calling head office suggested by Agincourt Mazda had occurred twice before he was told by the dealership he was not qualified to be on a financing plan.

He has emailed the head office and been told he will get a response soon. But from all those lies, I’m not sure what a ‘response’ would be like. I hope it is not a “We are sorry” and done deal.

What?
This sale features portable TVs, projection TVs, VCRs, DVD players, and more at very low prices and with Toshiba’s regular warranty.

When?
Saturday, December 9, 2006
8:00am – 1:00pm but try going as early as possible.

Where?
191 McNabb Street
Markham, Ontario
(2 Lights north of steeles and east of Warden Ave)

Phone: (905) 470-3456

Reminding everyone of VisaPerks.ca which has a huge collection of shopping and travel deals. You’ll need a Visa card to get these deals but I think I’m safe enough to assume that most people have one.
They offer discounts or offers for the following stores/websites:

1850, Access, Amazon.ca, Archambault, Baskits, Ben Moss Jewellers, Bentley, Best Buy, Blue Nile, Bluenotes, Camelot, Carlton Cards, Cayne’s Super Housewares, cbcshop.ca, Choice Hotels, Collacutt, CompuSmart, Computer Systems Centre, Cyberflowers, DVDboxoffice.com, Elite Jewels, EMI/Esounds.ca, Escents Aromatherapy, Everything Olive, FIXX, Flight Centre, Floral Connections, Gabriel Ross, Grand River Toys, Grocery Gateway, Henry’s, Hertz, Ice.com, Jive Jewelry, L.L.Bean, La Senza Lingerie, Lenovo, Miego, Movieposter.com, National Post, Naturalizer, Panda Software Canada, Pantorama, Purdy’s Chocolates, Rocky Mountain Trading Co., Running Room, Sirens, SIRIUS Radio, SoftMoc, Solstice Beauty, Sport Mart, Stitches, Suzy Shier, TELUS, Total Home Store, UNIC, UR2B, Urban Planet, VistaPrint, Vistek, Vonage, Watch IT!, Xcetera, XL100.com

Sorry this list looks so ugly

Sorry for breaking my promise ftcnt 🙂

Tickets for Cirque 2007 in Toronto are now on sale! A great chance to book the best possible seats. Cirque du Soleil is a modern circus that focuses upon a storyline as well as amazing performances which people adore.

Click here to book your Cirque du Soleil pre-sale tickets

I just received my 2007 Smart Consumer calendar in the mail today and it looks very nice with drawings and consumer tips and advice. You can see what it looks like here. You can order your free hard copy by calling 416-326-5300 or 1-800-668-9938.

More details on this Smart Consumer calendar here

Note: this Calender is for Ontario only

Last month I mentioned a Banana republic promo where, if you spent $150 you got a $25 gift card.

Gale left a comment on that post saying:

I received 4 of these giftcards and bought something with them. the item I purchased did not fit my husband and had to be returned when I returned the merchandise, the store credited me with the money portion but did not return the gift card. so much for banana republic and good cheer I will never go there again.

So in a nutshell, she used the gift card to buy something and when she returned it, Banana Republic just credited her the difference (original price minus the gift card amount).

Gale, I think that we shouldn’t let incidents like that go unnoticed. Ignoring them will only make us, consumers, more vulnerable to corporate greed in the future. Usually the main headquarters don’t even know about these appalling incidents. I suggest you contact their main office and explain what happened and hopefully they’ll resolve your issue. If you don’t want to contact them and would rather I do that instead please let me know. Here’s Banana Republic’s contact information:

1 (888) BR-STYLE
[email protected]

I suggest you phone instead of email. Companies take phone calls more seriously.

Thanks to Ceci for mentioning this factory sale.

More details on this Umbra factory sale here

Get a free appetizer at Kelsey’s with a minimum food purchase of $25. Unlike the Wendy’s coupon, this coupon has been confirmed to be legitimate and was emailed to people who entered one of Kelsey’s contests.
Click here to print this Kelsey’s coupon.

It’ll be more than 25 years before I could get a letter but I’m not that eager. Would’ve been more valuable had it been from the Queen.

Actually, on a second thought, this could be a very nice gift to your parents or grandparents on their wedding anniversary or birthday.

On request, the Prime Minister sends congratulatory letters and certificates to Canadians celebrating significant birthdays or wedding anniversaries.

Congratulatory letters are available for:

25th, 30th, 35th, 40th, and 45th wedding anniversaries
65th and 70th birthdays

Congratulatory certificates are available for:

50th wedding anniversaries and up
75th birthdays and up

You can send your request one of three ways :

1. Online by filling out and submitting either a

Birthday Congratulatory Message from the Prime Minister Form

or a

Wedding Anniversary Congratulatory Message from the Prime Minister Form

2. Filling out and Faxing a Congratulatory Message from the Prime Minister PDF form (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader),

3. By contacting:

Coordinator
Congratulatory Message
Room 105 – Langevin Block
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A2
Fax: (613) 941-6901
Email: [email protected]

To ensure on-time delivery, we ask that you submit your request at least three weeks before the event date.

More details