Bits And Pieces

More information trickles in about the company that handled the Iowa Appliance Rebate Program.

This Minnesota company, paid $25,000 by Iowa, also ran the Minnesota Appliance Rebate Program at the SAME TIME on the SAME DAY.

PURE GENIUS and the scientific community is united in that fact!

Eerily similar to Iowa, Minnesota's program ran into difficulties as the site was down most of Monday and the toll-free lines were jammed.

The company's excuse for Minnesota officials included a possible cyber-attack theory as they issued a statement, saying it had found "burdensome and suspicious activity" on its site.

Damn those Chinese hackers!

More likely it's an excuse to cover the company's ass as they were caught up in a federal civil lawsuit in 2006 and have 143 complaints filed against them in the past 36 months in Minnesota.

Of those, 136 were complaints regarding a refund or an exchange.

That leads one to believe it won't be the last of this story.