As we enter the holiday season, many shoppers are being asked to consider opening an account at nearly every retailer …
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Although it may not feel like a very personal gift, you probably can’t go wrong giving a gift card as …
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Passengers are used to hearing flight attendants give safety briefings and warn of the perils of using their smartphones below …
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The federal agency in charge of making sure consumers have adequate protections when it comes to financial products noted that …
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In recent months, Americans have received a number of protections from the federal agency tasked with helping to protect consumers …
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You know what’s really annoying? Buying something, say a $500 HDTV, and then seeing the same TV on sale for …
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I don’t encourage the use of prepaid cards, but the industry obviously doesn’t care about getting my blessing. In 2009, …
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Credit cards are often presented as the best thing since sliced bread. Go to the home page of any popular …
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Over at George Gombossy’s CT Watchdog Consumer Payback site, I read about a website called DazzleWhite Pro that lures you into filling out a form for a “free” sample of a teeth whitener product, then starts charging your credit card $58.76 per month for the stuff. (They get your credit card number when they ask for a $4.95 shipping and handling charge.)
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According to the saying, “The devil is in the details…” These days, the devil is just as likely to be in the fine print.
A new website wants to expose the traps in the fine print for consumers. Mouseprint.org is the brainchild of Edgar Dworskey, a.k.a. “Mr. Consumer,” a long-time consumer advocate who also produces one of my favorite consumer information sites, ConsumerWorld.org.
The website states: The goal is to help educate the public about the catches or “gotchas” in disclaimers, and to encourage advertisers to abandon the motto, “the big print giveth, and the little print taketh away.”
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