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They've worked well for me, aside from the price increases. Do you recommend an alternative?
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Freeze your credit that is the best way to safeguard your identity.
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I have my account to track my accounts and credit score, not to safeguard my identity.
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If you have that many accounts then it's time to sort them out.
Seriously.
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Exactly what I'm doing. Nothing else I know of allows me to see my student loans, car loan, major loan account, Kohl's charge card, Care Credit card, and 4 credit cards in one place, in addition to seeing the history on them and my credit score in addition to the breakdown of my credit score and what I can do to improve it.
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Yeah, I got 3 credit cards because I wanted one credit card from each major credit card company. Then I got a fourth as a backup in case I ever needed it, which I did at one point in order to make a long distance relationship less long distance. And three of those cards are completely dwarfed by the single credit card I use regularly. It is not the number of credit cards that matters, it's the cumulative balance that does... which the credit monitoring website tells me (though I typically use my Bank to more closely monitor those, as it has a nifty little graph that shows the balance history).
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aspdotnetdev wrote: Nothing else I know of allows me to see my student loans, car loan, major loan account, Kohl's charge card, Care Credit card, and 4 credit cards in one place, in addition to seeing the history on them and my credit score in addition to the breakdown of my credit score and what I can do to improve it
Although I would normally consider this to be the last place on Earth that one should mention MS Excel, you can do all of that with it, by using it to import the same data from the same sources of personal, private information that you appear to have given this third-party company access to.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Our email Credit Alerts allow you to catch signs of fraud"
True. It allowed you to spot that they're defrauding you out of every cent they charge.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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aspdotnetdev wrote: I hate when companies try to hide fees with information overload.
Most people won't see it, making it a "good" tactic. I do hope you're not expecting that the company is there to serve you in the best way possible, afraid that you're going to run to the competition.
If you're taking the risk of .05% of customers leaving, then you'll merely have to launch a new marketing-campaign. Or make sure that the next product isn't comparable to Vista 
I are Troll 
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Let me get this straight. You pay some company $16.95 a month to tell you not to spend so much money! 
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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Actually, I was originally paying $10/month. And that's not the only purpose of the account. And $200/year is a relatively small amount compared to what I have to pay off. To put it into perspective, the amount I pay on my various loan accounts (credit, car, student loans, etc.) each month is roughly four times what I pay to that credit monitoring company each year. So it's basically a 3% interest rate on the interest rates I already pay. Putting it another way, instead of paying $36 in interest, I'm paying $37 in interest. Still, I'd like to only have to pay $36.50 like with the old pricing model.
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Well it's your money, I guess. But, having been in a similar situation in the past myself, I can say from experience you are wasting your money. Make every effort to reduce your monthly outgoings by paying things off rather than adding to your debt, just so you can see what you owe in one place. You could see that by writing the totals on a piece of paper, which would cost you nothing.
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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I recently had to get a new mp3 player when my old one went t/u.
I did a fair amount of searching around for a plain old player. Viewing videos not required, Radio optional and cheap, very, very cheap.
As luck would have it I found something suitable with the added bonus of a discount offer. I got one of these[^]. When I saw the offer I remembered someone posting here about buying one (think it might have been Mike Hankey, but can't really be sure and I'm too lazy to search. ) and how they liked it, so I went ahead and ordered it.
Charged it, loaded it up and away we go. Very nice! Even with the standard ear buds, quality was good enough for me. The screen is bright enough for me to be able to use it without specs. The shuffle actually shuffled, I heard tracks I had forgotten were on my old one. Very Pleased.
Then I tried to use it whilst on a bus. Even at max volume could only hear the odd snatch of whatever track I selected. Not a happy bunny since this is when I mostly use it and London buses aren't that noisy really. When I got home I searched on the SanDisk site and found a better User Manual than the 'Getting Started' thing that came with it. In which I discovered that in the settings there were two options for volume - normal/high, little smile, went to the settings setting on the player and lo and behold no volume option, little grimace.
After more googling today I finally found out that this problem is caused by a EU restriction on the max volume of such devices. Stupid EU! Although I can't believe that SanDisk is near to reaching the upper limit of even this, given how quiet my player is.
Luckily, on the same site, I found a solution. Had to tell it to reset to Factory Settings then, when asked, tell it I was a USian. Result, I now have the normal/high options on the settings menu and about 4 times the volume available. TfL do your worst! I'm ready for you now. 
Can't get used to La Traviata with a country twang though. 
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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If you haven't already, then you should probably invest in a half-decent pair of sound isolating headphones (y'know the in-ear kind) which should drastically reduce most external sounds. That way yo don't need to have the player so loud which means the battery will last longer, and other people don't need to hear the scratchy sounds of you music from the seat behind you.
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SK Genius wrote: invest in a half-decent pair of sound isolating headphones
I already have some. They didn't help, prior to my change of nationality.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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The player must have been damn quiet then, my old player was limited by the same laws and I never had too much trouble with it. Maybe somebody just ballsed up somewhere.
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SK Genius wrote: Maybe somebody just ballsed up somewhere.
My thoughts too. Either that or I have acoustic bones that translate the rumblings into my skull.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Thanks, I got bored with my SanDisk for that reason.
*Elaine no longer fears the reaper* 
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Another way to get around the OF stupidness is to install Rockbox[^] on it. In the process, you'll learn that these little critters by Sandisk beat the hell out of any iPod out there (except the Touch, but that isn't an audio player IMHO).
Luca
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV
En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur.
(But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.)
-- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote: Rockbox[
I came across that whilst googling around this afternoon. I've bookmarked it for future reference but as mine is only a few days old and I have an unfortunate track record on firmware upgrades, I'll try it out when I'm ready to replace this one.
Thanks for the tip though.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I'm afraid I'm going to have to report this to the authorities. You've committed multiple violations.
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Trollslayer wrote: Yay! He can do maths!
I don't see how math has anything to do with this.
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