The makers of Weight Watchers snack cakes want you to try their newest product risk free.

If you don't like their new Red Velvet creme cake or -- or any of their other creme cakes, coffee cake or brownie -- mail in your receipt and the UPC code for a full refund, up to $4.99.

A friendly freebie reminder:

Today (Wednesday, April 11) is the day to collect your "early refund" from Qdoba Mexican Grill in the form of a free order of handmade tortilla chips and signature 3-Cheese Queso.

Progress Energy agreed to a $288 million refund for its Florida customers as part of a rate settlement announced Friday with that state's regulators.

The refund reflects the extra costs Progress incurred to generate or buy electricity to replace the output of the disabled Crystal River nuclear reactor, which has been shut down for more than two years because of damage caused during maintenance.

Raleigh-based Progress will record pretax costs of $288 million for the fourth quarter, which is expected to trim 59 cents from that quarter's earnings, Bloomberg News reported. Progress will announce more details when it issues earnings on Feb. 16.

The Florida rate refund will largely offset a rate increase planned for Florida customers, bringing down the increase to about 4 percent, or nearly $5 a month for a typical household.

The Florida rate case has no effect on customers in the Carolinas, but the $288 million write-down will affect all investors.

Internet phone pioneer Vonage will issue $3 million refunds to dissatisfied customres in North Carolina and other states, under an agreement announced today with 32 state investigative agencies.

The refunds are part of a settlement between Vonage and state attorneys general over customer complaints alleging that Vonage refused to cancel service after a temporary trial period.

Vonage made a splash as one of the first phone services that sends calls over the Internet and computer networks, rather than using standard phone lines. Vonage now has nearly 2.5 million customers nationwide.