Michael D.

FeverUp is a worldwide events promoter/organizer that hosts some of the silliest events with relatively poor performances at exorbitantly high prices and then provides terrible customer service. Even though you'll have timed ticketed events, you'll find long lines, poor organization, poor flow, and that you are not getting your money's worth. And if you try to get help, their customer service is horrible.

Checkbook.org designs a Guide to Federal Employee Health Benefits for federal employees - but unfortunately it is severely inaccurate and could end up costing you thousands of dollars. The site often ends up recommending HDHP with claims that their members rate them highly on quality and coming up with forecast costs that are on par or less than normal insurance plans.

However, what they fail to tell you is that they do not account for the cost of prescription medications prior to hitting the plan deductible, which is high. Some drugs, even generics, can cost twice as much as they would under a regular insurance plan, leaving you spending the majority if not all of your HSA funds on prescription medications.

I've been comparing linear algebra courses being offered by the various MOOC websites and universities out there. Curious.com has been sponsoring a bunch of NPR ads, so I thought I'd look at what they have on offer for linear algebra.

So it turns out that Curious.com is kind of like YouTube, but you have to pay for it. Ie, you have to pay a subscription to access completely awful, unprofessional, unintelligible, boring, and useless videos where someone, who knows their credentials, in heavily accented english, write unintelligible equations on a computer white-board.

While there are valid caregivers and parents on this site, there are just too many opportunities for scams and unreliable information. We paid $79 for a Preferred+ background check which COMPLETELY MISSED a conviction that was easy searchable on our state's court case search database.

On another front, we saw reviews placed for caregivers that didn't make much sense, but we had no way of communicating with the reviewer and the caregiver didn't have any method of dealing with the bad review - and it sounds like the review came from one of those scams asking trying to get bank account information.

We wrote to Care.com to try to resolve both of these issues, but received nothing but automated messages back.