ConsumerAffairs Reviews

I'm reading an article about Water4Gas, using hydrogen to boost mileage. Do you know how ** you sound? I am proof that they work. I've had one in my car for 7 months and I get 75mpg, highway, and 55mpg in the city. I've even started a business of selling and installing these units. Even all of my customers are reporting 50 to 75 percent increase in mileage. All your company is, is just another government controlled agency backed by big oil or the scientist are that **. I will forward this info to as many websites and news channels as possible stating that Consumer Affairs makes allegations to persuade the general public's thinking depending on who is funding them!

The article “Bank of America, Chase Rush to Cut Fees as Congress Gets Restless; Consumer Anger Forcing Congress to Get Tough on High Bank Fees, Charges” by James ** dated September 23, 2009 on ConsumerAffairs.com is really wrong now that, 2 months later, Congress passed the Credit Card Reform Act, which takes effect in February 2010. The interest rates are being jacked up now by all the major issuers to keep the interest rates at 29.99% and up when the new law takes effect. Perhaps Congress should amend the bill to require these companies retroactively adjust the fees and interest rates levels they charged a few months ago. Write Obama, your senators and representatives in the House. This has resulted to pain and suffering.

If users cannot read the owner's manual and pay attention to the manufacturer's recommendations, then don't ride an atv or sxs. Cars, guns, and power tools are the same. Parents don't allow their 12-year-old to drive the family car, so why would it be OK to let them drive an sxs or atv? The ridiculous lawsuits and public posturing are a silly reaction to poor parental supervision masquerading as a safety issue.

Mr. Truman ** published an article in your publication regarding Consumer Product Safety Comission's intent to begin the process of further regulating ATVs and RUVs. In the article Mr. Truman states several times that "ATVs cause injury or death". ATVs do not cause anything. The cause of people getting hurt is always people. I know of no machine that is manufactured with the intelligence to have malicious intent. In virtually every case involving injury or death, deliberate decisions by the operators to ignore the manufacturers recommendations regarding age limits, safety gear, and proper safe operation resulted in the injury or death.

In the October 25th edition of your "Consumer News & Alerts," I was reading "Cybercriminals scare users into installing dangerous software," and when I clicked on the links "Internet Users" and "Identity Theft," advertisements popped up--one for Verizon and one for Credit Reports. I was not able to get the additional information that was supposed to be available. I had to click on the "close window (X)" to get rid of the advertisement. I'm surprised and disappointed that your site would allow that to happen when a reader is looking for additional information related to the subject.

Advertising on your website is the same company that was in the article. My stomach hurt from laughing. You are advertising for the same company I looked up for being bogus.

Do you check out those that advertise with you? As I looked through different websites, one thing stands out and that is that companies that claim you can make money working through Google and other such site are scams. To have them on your site makes people think they are for real. If you want to give the impression you are looking out for the consumer, we figure the advertisers with you are safe or at least honest. Thank you.

All consumers has become is a blog for consumers to list their complaints! Another do nothing company! Lack of true follow up from consumers.

I recently read an article on your site pertaining to VW/Audi ignition coils failing. In this article, you mentioned a situation involving Audi from the mid 80's regarding a symptom propagated by Ralph Nader known as unintended acceleration. I have been working on Audis in the US for well over a decade and have never witnessed anything of the sort. Furthermore, it was proven that the so-called unintended acceleration was actually due to the driver unknowingly pressing the accelerator pedal when attempting to depress the brake. A company should not be blamed for something if the consumer does not understand how to operate the equipment. Do your research and stop perpetuating information that was actually proven invalid. If the American public would actually pay attention to driving, they would not find things like this to be a problem.

I have a complaint about whoever you are. I contacted you this morning and due to distractions was unable to complete my complaint about AT&T. Believe me, my complaint has very little to do with the whiney problem of talking to someone there. It's the overcharging and entrapment of customers into plans they don't want and making it hellish to get out of. Oops, I should never have called in the first place.

This site is a site created by lawyers just to create business for themselves. You don't get a company's side of any of your complaints.

I submitted a Consumer Affairs complaint form on 9/14/09. I wanted to let you know that I used the sample letter How To Resolve a complaint, sent certified return receipt copy to the Daily News, since they claimed they had no record of my request to stop delivery. Today, I received a call back from Susan **, a manager who informed me that they are going to clear my account and I don't have to worry about my credit be ruined. Thank you for your assistance.

Consumeraffairs.com has posted a complaint about my business. The complaint was false and there is no way to defend the false statement made against my company. Consumeraffairs.com has a company response form and encourages those responses, but I do not see a place on their website that company responses are available for viewing. It also states not to make responses directly to the false complaint.

I sincerely hate the vibrant in-text advertising that Consumer Affairs uses in their stories. Vibrant in-text advertising says they are not a pop-up but that is a lie. I didn't click on the word in the story, yet an annoying pop-up comes up and I have to stop reading the story and close their stupid pop-up box. I love consumeraffairs.com but my friends and I all agree the "vibrant in-text advertising" make it the most annoying website ever! Please reconsider the use of this type of advertising. I am making it my personal mission in life to stop "vibrant in-text advertising", that's how bad/much I hate it.

Your website page reports the scam concerning U.S. government grants. On the same page is an advertisement for the scam promoting how to get Canadian government grants. I thought this was kind of funny.

I recently read a post of a complaint about the service at Ingram Park Nissan. The review ended by saying Reynaldo should get an attorney to help with the problem. The post had been done by a man not named Reynaldo. Reynaldo was the salesman who was trying to ripoff the customer. Clearly, the reviewer had not read the article he was commenting on, thereby lessening the integrity of consumeraffairs.com. Anyone who reads the article will think consumeraffairs.com is run by brain dead ** who try to sound as if they know what they're talking about when in fact, they are clearly not. Consumeraffairs.com should sue themselves in order to weed out the ** who are making them look like a bunch of Texas A&M graduates.

I just want to thank you for your service. I've found your site invaluable in supplementing my internet search for a car. I read your site regularly. I loved your response. Brilliant. Thank you so much for your work and help!

Whatever editors you have writing the "we respond" comments are rude and arrogant. The first response I read each had sarcastic, personal attacks on posters. I won't be coming back to your website. I would estimate that it is mostly to your own advertisers.

I recently attempted to look for new cars for my mother until suddenly, I was stopped in my tracks. I came upon www.consumeraffairs.com. According to them, every single car from every single company available in the USA has massive engine failure. Even the brands that seemed to do very well in every other review that I read: Governmental, non-governmental, profit or non! None were as harsh and told as much truthfulness as consumeraffairs.com. Thank you for being a true American. I bought my mom a bike!

Consumeraffairs.com is putting complaints about Kevin Trudeau on their website. If you look at the top of the page, you will notice they have an ad from Kevin. Let me show you how to spell Morons. M-O-R-O-N-S.

Why do you have this advertisement (see copy below) on your site? It does say ad by Google, but you are supposed to be a consumer advocate organization and you are allowing this sort of advertising, which is meant to spy on others, invade their privacy, and hurt them. “Listen-In On Cell Calls, Read Text Messages, Cell Phone Spy Undetectable! Works With All Phones **.”

When someone makes a complaint to the Better Business Bureau, the BBB gives that company an opportunity to respond to the complaint. If anyone in your organization went further than the eighth grade, maybe you would have thought of this as well. Maybe you were raised in a communist block country. The first complaint you have registered against Sun State Enclosures (dated 2003). A woman named Sheri sounding like an angry 2nd grader was also filed with the BBB and answered by Sun State, then dismissed! The second complaint concerning a man by the name of Stan (dated back to 2000), this man never even worked for Sun State Enclosures but an inquiry or I don't know a little investigation on your part would have been, I don't know fair! I'm real curious as to how many other companies you have frivolously slandered without the benefit of a rebuttal. Keep up the great work.

You wrote a bizarre, one-sided report on new CPSC head Tenenbaum. In it, you point out that there was a series of safety recalls for products that could have injured kids (let's ignore the obvious fact that kids play with adult objects, rocks, etc. all day long which poses safety risks). These recalls were, of course, prior to the enactment of the CPSIA. The CPSIA benefits nobody but attorneys and government bureaucrats. I challenge you to examine the law and explain to me how the testing standards required by the law improve child safety.

When I navigated to your site, I found a whole lot of JavaScript that is related to tracking cookies and other malware. I think that your site should not be using or hosting spyware that is well known as invasive. I blocked about six types of JavaScript on your site.

I read and understand that you do not endorse products and services that are posted by 3rd party advertisers. However, in your June 25th newsletter, you have Freedom Debt Relief listed as a New Rogue, yet when I clicked on it to read the comments, there was an ad for the same company!

I have been an internet user for many years and have become increasingly depressed by the amount of nonsensical, scurrilous and dishonest material published via this medium. Your website, ConsumerAffairs.com, established a new low in my depression level with the publication of a piece purporting to debunk the claims made by Ozzie Freedom on his Water4Gas website.

ConsumerAffairs.com gave misleading information regarding water for gas in an article by Mr. David Wood. The article misleads the public when he says "Scientists debunk 'scammish' gas-from-water claims." Mr. Wood is spreading false information about water for gas. I installed a device based on the information Ozzie Freedom provided and my van went from 24 MPG highway to 31 MPG highway.

Yikes! I noticed that Quicken Loans has an advertisement at the top of this site! How is such a thing possible? Don't you read the content that you put online?

Excuse me if this is wrong place, but I couldn't find anywhere else to comment.

I love your web site and the articles are great! But the last few newsletters, every time I read an article and the mouse cursor gets near an underlined word, these advertisements from Vibrant keep popping up! And they won't go away! It is so hard to read and learn something when these ads keep popping up. Please fix this! I love your articles and by learning from them, I can help my customers where I work by answering their questions. And you also help me keep my family updated on recalls. You have saved my family from multiple chances of salmonella from sprouts, pot pies, Pan peanut butter, hamburger and pet food, lots of stuff. These ads are such a pain! Please fix them or get rid of them, something! Thanks for for your time in this. I really appreciate it!

I find it funny that you are always attacking Nutro products, saying the FDA has filed complaints once again yet the FDA has filed nothing since the recalls of 07-08. Even in the letter from the FDA that you posted in your new link shows that the FDA denied your request for information (the first box marked with an x). For once, will you stop reporting on products (not just Nutro) if you don't have all the facts? It is making your site look like you are making things up just to get the public stirred up. I have used Nutro products on my pets since I was a child and have never had any problems. Even vets have said that there was more to these cases than what people were feeding their pets, yet you seem to leave that out of your reports. I think it is about time that you are investigated for once for all of your claims that seem to prove false and not just the companies that you rag on.

When will Consumer Affairs update the Nutro information? CNN has already reported there was never anything wrong with it, and that there never was an investigation? Why do you just pick out one company?

You said that Nutro was under FDA investigation? Why? The FDA has confirmed to me that Nutro was not under investigation.

I think that you put things on your site that you do not have facts to support. Consumeraffairs.com has reported Nutro is being investigated but no one can verify this. Maybe Consumer Affairs should be providing facts, not hearsay. You are confusing and frightening pet parents with no proof about these companies. In this economy, it is especially unfair to consumers and retailers to affect their confidence in premium pet products.

You have falsely accused Nutro dog food and probably created some undue panic in the pet world. These are false statements on a consumer website, I guess you don't check for accuracy. That will surely hurt your presence as an authority in consumer advocacy. I, for one, will not be back or refer anyone to this site.

Your site is a farce. You should be ashamed. There is nothing there that benefits the consumer. Oh, and govermental, is that a word?

My complaint is not about the product but the blogs on this site! Mars has owned Nutro for almost two years now. This is not something new! There is no perfect food that's why we have hundreds of pet foods. Why do I not hear about all the recalls Old Roy and Special Kitty has had over the years? Is it because they are Wal-Mart's signature brand? I work in a retail pet store and have not had a return or complaint on Nutro Pet Foods in a long time.

ABC News article says the Nutro article on your site is incorrect.

I have fed all my dogs and cats Nutro products for over 20 years. They have all been healthy and lived to 17 yrs., 16 yrs. (dogs), 23, 24 and one is 20 (cats). I currently have 2 dogs and 3 cats eating only Nutro with absolutely no health problems or vet bills. I think that you need to have some positive tests of the food being bad, before you keep slandering premium products. You have no evidence and keep up your trashing of the food. Find some actual (true) research on food samples that are contaminated before you spread more lies.

Why would you have ads for the very grant scams you warn about on your web page?

Yes! My complaint is about your stupid captcha at the end of this page! I am legally blind and cannot read that idiotic thing! Let's find another way to verify someone's identity! So far it has taken me thirty minutes to send you this form. I am using dial-up!

Your 4/2/09 article about eHarmony made the reference to Theodore Olson (a former Solicitor General who also represented President Bush in the infamous 2000 recount). This gives a negative implication about these men. Al Gore was the perpetrator of the damaging legal actions to try and steal the 2000 election so your article is guilty of serious misrepresentation of the facts of the matter. I can only assume you are promoting a political attitude by this misrepresentation. Your political action puts a cloud over your purported consumer advocacy.

Your article regarding small claims and how to file in Arizona courts is completely flawed. The court does not mail out the complaint to the defendant, nor can we help an individual fill out their paperwork.

I am a huge fan of Consumer Affairs, but I must disagree with the listing of New Rogues. Every week, there are some very good companies that are listed along with not so good companies. All companies make mistakes, and what is important is that the company is free from an unusual pattern of complaints. The BBB advises when considering complaint information, please take into account the company's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints.

Online idiots become so-called experts in whichever subject and category they are posting. They just regurgitate information that they find online from illegitimate sources and are not held accountable for their postings.

With all the consumer complaints on the website dealing with Capital One and you have a Capital One banner ad on top, don't you think it's rather brazen? It cheapens your site and makes you look like you're in bed with them. My hope is that websites like this actually do good, but I think it's just a place for people to vent.

I was very disconcerted to find that every red link in the article - Credit Card Rates on the Rise; Fear of delinquency has banks increasing APRs - was NOT to another article with further information, BUT TO a commercial link selling me a new card or other service. Yikes, guys! My faith in your weekly letter had been severely compromised! Are you just another, albeit more subtle, scam site?

I just want to applaud ConsumerAffairs.com for their reply to that insane idea of trying to gag medical patients from commenting online about their doctors. AWESOME JOB. Keep up the GREAT work, guys. It is MUCH appreciated (and apparently needed)! :-)

If the people complaining on your website knew how to spell or talk, it would be a relief. They probably would not complain so much.

Re: "Your doctors gagging patients" article. I am not sure I completely agree with your position. The professions such as medicine and law do not share the same arms-length business/consumer relationship as that of any business such as a mechanic, realtor or any other business. The nature of the relationship is much more intimate, where the customer is relying on the doctor or lawyer to tell them what they need and they disclose confidential information.

Your banner ads are for government grants!

I haven't been scammed. I'm not dumb enough to fall for them. I thought, however, that it was extremely ironic that when I read your article it was flanked by two ads by Google both of which were exactly the same scams you were talking about in your article! Jeffreysgrant... It's bad enough that they run these ads, but it's not very smart for them to run them right next to your (very helpful) article exposing them! :D

I just read your article for government grant scams and in it you state “any government grant offer is a scam. Period.” So if this is true, tell me please why on this exact same web page you have no less than 3 ads for free government grant money? So either they are all a scam period and you allow scam artist to advertise with you, or your reporting is in error.

I came to this site to get information about government grant scams and you people have the bogus ads on your website from Google ads. Your right hand doesn't know what your left hand is doing.

Mark Huffman's article regarding the dangers of zapping "eye floaters" with the so-called controversial YAG laser is bar none the most unprofessional article I have ever read. I have yet to see one shred of medical or scientific evidence to prove that this procedure is as dangerous as your article claims it is. Well-trained ophthalmologists have performed this procedure thousands of times without incidence.

Your website is not working properly. I am trying to look up information on various companies in various states. When I go to www.consumeraffairs.com/db/ConsumerProtection.html, there is a way to search by zip - which I do and I get an error that I cannot access your database. I see no way to contact you on your web page, other than this complaint form. Can you please provide assistance with this? Am I doing something wrong? You can call or email me. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

For the past week or so, I've been receiving the Consumer Affairs e-mail alerts where the links for the articles don't work properly. Today, the links to "read more" or the article "title" link lead to a Save prompt instead of opening the article.

I went to consumeraffairs.com to read about cash4gold.com. While there reading, I see a flashing, very annoying ad for yourgiftexperts.com. This ad is so annoying that I click on the X at the top right corner to cancel it; instead of cancelling, it brings up a window. I next click on "cancel", which brings up another window. Now I have to wait for them to come up completely before canceling each one separately. I think cancel should mean cancel especially on a consumer affairs type of website.

As I read complaints on ConsumerAffairs.com about an apparent scam run by people selling Bromalite, I noticed an ad in the left margin for the very product being criticized! The ad promoted free samples of Bromalite and a similar offer for Acai Berries. Together, these products were the dynamic duo of weight loss programs. I was skeptical of the request for a credit card in the free promotion, which charged me $4.99 shipping. So I did not submit the order and avoided any damage, except, I now question the legitimacy of ConsumerAffairs.com! What is going on here?

I recently stumbled upon ConsumerAffairs.com and began reading some of the consumer posts on the website. What I have mostly noticed is that it is full of ignorant people who are looking for any way to get a little extra something from someone. To be fair, I'm sure that there are several consumers who have used this website that have legitimately been scammed or wronged. However, I feel that this website will only contribute to the continuing economic struggles that our nation has been dealing with. Several of these companies or small business which have actually done no wrong could see a loss of customer base due to the content of this website. It is admirable that whoever built this website is trying to help consumers, but I wonder how many people have actually been helped compared to the number of innocent small businesses that have been hurt by the slander found on these forums. I do not demand that this website be shut down, just that consumer posts should be further looked in to and confirmed prior to allowing comments to be posted.

You guys have a lawsuit on your hands. The attorneys will be contacting you about your misrepresentations about other companies and individuals that are reported. The class action lawsuit is going to be against you. The problem comes from idiots like you and your website, not knowing the whole truth. You just post your complaints without any research whatsoever. Well the end result is slander. You are just as at fault as the person writing the complaint. If the papers and media as a whole were allowed to do that using companies and individuals' names and states, there would be lawsuits. Well, yours is coming. You might want to take the time to read and then research the postings for more truth than emotional anger. Most of the time, idiots react without thinking through the consequences. Now you have your turn to see just what it feels like to try and help people, then have it turn on you for doing nothing more than what you thought was right.

Joe consistently publishes complaints about the Prius with article headers that don't match the content. He takes every complaint as if it is the gospel truth and fact based, numbers or any questioning be damned. For example, The Ten Worst Used Cars and Trucks. It starts out with a claim of 215,000 complaints but each of the selected vehicles has no number of reports out of the 215,000. In short, he has cherry picked his favorites to complain about with no metrics from this claimed 215,000 entry database to back up his claim. This is pure hokum and propaganda.

There’s a misleading headline in news story on your site. I didn't see any other way to contact you, but thought you'd like to know. The headline was, "H&R Block to Stop Selling Refund Anticipation Loans in California". The story begins on January 2, 2009.

I read the report about the Grinches that stole Christmas and found it to be insulting and close-minded. On behalf of the nearly 700,000 postal employees that make every effort to deliver the mail correctly and in good condition, while driving safely, I want to say that while you may have thought you were being funny, you are not. Yes, there are the 5%-ers that we make every effort to address. I am sure you are in the 5%-er club where you work. 5 percenters are those that do not live up to the expectations of their position.

I have looked repeatedly for your contact e-mail address - either you have done away with it or have it hidden. I have also looked for your rogue gallery and can no longer find it. On some subjects you can find some complaints, but not the rogue gallery. You have changed and made it too hard for the consumer to use your site, and it appears you do not want to hear from the consumer. What happened? You used to be for the consumer - no more!!!!

While trying to research past consumer affairs with Comcast internet company, I found this site through a Google search. Searching through Consumer Affairs' listings of previous consumer complaints, I realized that either Americans now have drastically low grammar, punctuation, and editing skills, or that you have some version of a mechanical trained chimp writing your complaints for you. Though, unbelievable as it may seem, I believe in this case the latter to be true. I'm not sure if you realize the dribble posted on your site, but I think anyone trying to run a reputable business, should at least maintain a website in one well written language. Due to the poor quality of the written complaints, I chose to question and eventually rule out the validity of anything posted on this site.

For about the last week, you have had a very annoying, flashing logo on your site. Every single time, it advises me I have "WON" a Dell Laptop computer. I can't make it stop flashing. If I click on close or the X, it takes me to their page. Where, the only way I can shut them down is to unsubscribe and that requires that I give them my EMAIL ADDRESS! Your site, of ALL POSSIBLE SITES, ought to be free of such chicanery and dishonesty! I understand you probably need advertisers to keep this site running. But I INSIST that you only do so with reputable advertisers! And a flashing sign that keeps telling me I am the lucky 100,000th person, and says it for days or weeks, is clearly running some kind of scam! Shame on you!

This page on Consumeraffairs.com offers false and misleading information. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/12/laptop_shopping.html Examples are as follows: OSX... it is invariably more expensive than an equivalent machine with a different OS. False. The retail price of OS X is cheaper than Windows Vista. As part of a purchased system it is certainly not a more expensive option than Windows. Especially when ongoing costs are taken into consideration. Spanning the gap is Microsoft, makers of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Windows is the most common OS on the planet. Are you offering consumer information or marketing for Microsoft? It's usability as well as price falls somewhere in between OSX and Linux. This is false and misleading to the consumer. OS X and desktop-oriented Linux distributions offer superior security, usability, reliability, and performance when compared to Windows Vista. And again, Windows is NOT cheaper than OS X. If you're buying at a store, be sure to ask someone if you can try out a computer with each OS if you're not familiar with the differences. And the chances that you will find three approximately equal products running these three operating systems under one roof are?

Your forty-eight hour notice emailed to me advising you were using my complaint against grocery practice of shrinking product has turned into a week. Although I appreciate the thought my article was worthy of publication on your site, I'm a little miffed it never saw print. What happened? Thank you.

After hearing from a client in regards to problems with the Canidae dog food, we researched the issue on your website. I have to say I was not impressed with the fact finding abilities of the presentation of the information. The other food companies could easily trash Canidae, thus providing them with FREE negative marketing. The average consumer, who should not have to worry about such a problem occurring, is not after reading this review is certainly inclined to feel Canidae is a horrible food, when the facts belie this point.

I am here reading your web page and seeing your ADVICE saying all of these are scams. Yet I see 3 ,Count them, 3 ads on your page right now advertising FREE GRANT MONEY. I am very disappointed in you. You say that they are a scam then you advertise for them. What does that say about you??

I am complaining about your article on 7 reasons why not to trade in your gas hog. I think you are missing the point. It's not only saving money on less fuel usage it's getting off of foreign dependency.

Why is it that when I click on an auto manufacturer, say Honda, it immediately shows a list of all the complaints, but when I click on Toyota, nothing comes up unless I click the categories on the right.

You have complaints about nutraceutical free trials, and yet you run banners for Central Coast Nutraceuticals. Silly.

I sent you a complaint regarding AIG annuities. You have agreed to publish it. It has been over 10 days and this has yet to occur. I do believe my letter will help others. What is the hold up?

The advertisement showing Senator Obama as some kind of sullen, crude and evil person and suggesting that HE is the criminal - not McCain (Keating 5) or Sarah Palin (Alaska succeed from States) should not be allowed on a website like this without equal time from Obama's campaign. the post office is government agency that is in place for all people - not just Republicans and not McCain - emphasis on the name CAIN. I am going to inform all Obama supporters that this advertisement is on here including Move On, etc. Thank you.

I read a debunking expose from Consumer Affairs on their website about cars running on hydrogen (water). The report spent some time and space quoting detailed responses from eminent scientists as a "scamwatch" type story. I thought this was helpful until I realized that the surrounds of the story contained maybe a dozen direct adverts on how to convert your car to run on water!! What is going on here?

Why, under the "pocket pets" section where you report rodents carry diseases that are dangerous to humans, are you listing ferrets? If you bothered to read up of them, you would know ferrets are not rodents and pose no disease risks that cats and dogs don't already pose. Because of this information, some daycare licensing regulations ban ferrets from centers as both pets and drop in visitors. Your information is wrong!

I think this web site is a waste of time. I see no real prupose of this web site but to spread rumors.

Consumer affairs never allows any post to enter their website with proof of actual purchase which forces me to question the validity of each complaint. If they don't check the validity of the complaint how do you know if someone actually purchased something from the company their complaining about and furthermore if the complaints are genuine? I question the structural integrity of this website and until someone can verify that the complaints are attached to a specific purchasing situation any and all complaints listed on this website are subject to question.

As I used your web site to check on shower doors and specifically Century Shower Doors I first had to read a disclaimer from one manufacturer, Century Shower Door Inc. in California, which clearly states that the complaints listed below are not about them. Then as I proceeded to read and INVESTIGATE I determined that the first 3 complaints after their disclaimer were directly pointed at Century Shower Door Inc. of California and not the other Century Shower Door of NJ. As a company that has a tremendous impact on the well being of businesses you have a Large Duty to correctly and ACCURATELY direct the complaints. You have a duty to determine which company the complaint is directed at and to clearly state that in any complaint you publish. Now that you have received a complaint about your inaccuracies will you correct your mistakes?

I live in the Philippines, having been married to a Filipino 15 years. The article against marrying Filipinos is not exactly true. Only 15% of u.s. marriages last in America among Americans. Thats very poor. The article is biased not not exactly true. Americans men must be careful marrying abroad, but if they use common sense and rather than infatuation overlooking the negative signs, they get fantastic wives. In the Philippines thousands of Americans reside with their Filipino wives, securely, more than in America.

I went to your cite looking for info about companies who monitor your credit and hopefuly keep people for stealing your personal information. I read about the horror stories written by users of freecreditreport.com and behold, who is one of the supporters of your web site? freecreditreport.com!

I find it very interesting that your web site touts the Hartford Insurance company (AARP) as an advertiser and they are the one consumers complain about. Any comments?

I keep trying to read your web page, but it is always out-of-wack. Nothing in the middle or left side of the web page is used and there is only writing on the far right side of your web site

your article on the prius is the most pathetic, lame, poorly researched, based on hearsay, GARBAGE i have ever read. get your facts from real people, not some made up ****!

Your report does not reflect my experience with a 1st generation seven year old Prius. I typically get 50-55mpg (old EPA 52mpg city) and have a best of 72.4mpg that included over 10 miles of 65mph traffic. I have driven this vehicle over eighty thousand miles and have almost never gotten less than 50mpg. Even when loaded with 1200lbs the car still gets 48mpg and doesn't have problems with hills.

What irrespnsible reporting! Where is the science? If so many people have bad food from Nutro, why haven't any sent it to a lab for testing? Why don't you? Are you afraid to find out that you are wrong? Now some of these people are feeding homemade food, some even raw. We know how much less regulated human food is and the danger of raw food diets has been forgotten almost as soon as the dogs were buried. Shame on you!

You are supposed to be a consumer advocate site, and you had an advertising link for Nutro pet food, the same company that is poisoning animals all over the country- I don't understand how you're doing that

This is in regards to your article -Midwest Storm Victims May be Victimized Again - https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/03/storm_chasers.html It talks about storm chasers; however it is not really talking about storm chasers that actually chase storms for scientific, educational, and public safety reasons. This could very easily be misconstrued and make people think that real storm chasers are bad people. Just because Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon calls these storm repair scam artists storm chasers doesn't mean you shouldn't put a side note in the article saying who real storm chaser are and how these are not the same people as to what the article is talking about.

Hello: Ok, I enjoy your newsletter, but this is bothering me. Where do you get off calling the AFA, or anyone else a hate group. The have their right to use any legal form at hand to put their point across, as you do. That you could be considered a hate group by the groups and people you attack (mostly with-in your right also). I thought that you were a bunch of adults with at least a small sense of propriety. Please print a retraction.

You are slandering the family group that boycotted ford by calling them a hate group, I happen to agree with them. You owe them an apology

Your article on home sales being at their lowest took only PART of a report from NAR and is not presented accurately. For me, it's a scare tactic. Markets vary from area to area, and more importantly the national figures, if you review them more carefully, do NOT show this stat.

What a pile of absolute, complete, idiotic bullshit.

I find it interesting that you have a forum to complain about the supposed wrong doing of Vehicle Service contract companies. I have been connected with the industry for over thirty years and the reality is this:

I really have to wonder about your website (https://www.consumeraffairs.com). I go to the site to read the complaints about Comcast and what do I find on your OWN webpage - lots of advertising for Comcast ! ! ! Unbelievable...

I find your review of Nutrisystem to be extremely biased, one-sided and unfair. Not once did you talk to or acknowledge that there are hundreds/thousands of happy, satisfied customers.

I am sending you this complaint about a story i read on consumeraffairs.com that i think is grossly innaccurate - about laser surgery for eye floaters. I recently (July 2007) had this surgery and it has provided dramatic vision improvement in my left eye - which was previously quite obscured by a large suspended floater. I was referred by my local opthamologist in Hyannis, MA. I would appreciate the opportuntity to speak with your editor-in-chief, Mr. Hood about my experience in hopes of correcting the many misperceptions about this type of laser surgery that have been created by this story. Please understand, I am doing this on my own. I have not contacted dr. karickhoff about the story and do not know if he's even seen it. I'm not writing you to be his advocate. I feel strongly that patients, who may be good candidates for this procedure, could be wrongly swayed so as to not have the procedure, after reading your story. Thank you.

Damage? Not sure yet. Depends on whether my phone's email function can be fixed. I guess, in the meantime, it would be significant annoyance, stress, and inconvenience. Since I tend to get frightening chest pains when stressed, perhaps more serious liability as well on consumeraffairs.com's part. Have to see what happens..

I find it incredibly stupid that you publish an article re the FTC cracking down on deceptive mortgage ads while you have not one, but TWO such ads on the same page. You pretend to be advocates of consumer protection while in fact you are perpetrators of mortgage advertising deception.

...WHY IS THE SITE FULL OF ORECK ADS???

Yet another self-serving, baseless muckraking article trying to create problems with the Prius that do not exist. Slander is illegal, don't forget.

Are you kidding me? On your Home Consumer News Page you have Applied Card Bank advertising their services. If you really were going after these sob's then should you be taking their advertising money. Give me a break you are as bad as they are.

Your headline states - Easy-Bake Ovens Recalled after Finger Amputations The text of the article described one partial finger amputation. Your headline blares Amputations (plural). The article enumerates one (partial) amputation. Slow news day?

What a joke your website is, I read through and see consumers that are not educated on products or how they should be cared for, yet you post this information for viewers all over to think it is real. Though some of it may be fact, you have only one side of most stories. Get a real job, or go fix some problems that exist.

You guys are ALWAYS posting ANTI-HYBRID car articles and it makes me SO MAD. Find a time when you posted ONE SINGLE PRO-HYBRID articles. EVERY SINGLE HYBRID ARTICLE I HAVE EVER READ ON THIS SITE IS ANTI_HYBRID. It's awful and it's disrepectful to the hundreds of thousands of hybrid vehicles owners in the USA. You should really question your motives and see that you are doing a disservice to the consumers you are SUPPOSEDLY trying to protect.

My complaint concerns your site. Your response to the question Who are you? is inadequate. It violates all principles associated with the consumers right to know who they are dealing with. Are you a person, a company, etc.? Do you have a board of directors? Should you be considered an authority? This information should be available as an easy to use option. I cannot use your site (except as a suspect site) in my university teaching until you follow rules of good practice in website design.

I would just like to say, that I am SOOO happy that I came across this website. I have been feverishly searching the internet for a good deal on a 48in Viking range. I see after reading customer complaints that the only good deal that I would have likely found is a good deal of problems and customer service neglect. I thank you all for taking the time out to warn potential future uncooked and uneaten food.

In an several articles on consumeraffairs.com the writer referred to the American Family Association and 19 other such groups as hate groups, or anti-gay religionists for boycotting Ford over their advocacy of the homosexual agenda. As a customer of Ford do we not have the right to disagree with them based on religious values and not do business with them. Why would your writer approach this cultural issue from such a biased point of view and used such infalamatory labels. I will never use your website and tell others of your bias.

Your website is filled with misinformation and outright lies. All you scumsucking lawyers should be rounded up and shoved over a high cliff, you goddamn bloodsuckers.

The Internet allows people to set up websites to create the illusion that they are part of a real organization.

I have been reading articles published on this website and have discovered misleading and deceptive information concerning various products. For example: a complaint about a particular manufacturer's car was cited as a problem with the car ('rotten egg' smell, poor starts). This is usually caused by poor quality, high sulfur fuel. Also, you should be aware by now that the fuel economy numbers generated by the federal test that make assumptions about how people drive. 'Detriot foot' afflicts most US drivers and is the source of bad fuel economy. It would be refreshing to read an article on your site where you told the Whole Story, not just what someone who dosen't wnat to take responsibility for thier own actions wants to hear.

You guys should be shot for puttting this webiste up and lying to people. You are a bunch of lawyers that try to pick up new business through lies. You guys suck! and I hope you have problems with dealers. You guys are a poor excuse for human beings. When you look in the mirror know that you are a liar.

How can you take advantage of people by saying you're not affiliated ... Knowledge is power! ConsumerAffairs.Com is a non-partisan, independent information provider. We are supported entirely by advertising and are not affiliated with any other consumer organization, government agency or corporation. You are letting these corporations advertise on your site so therefore you are sleeping with the enemy by taking their money and searching out for class action lawsuits which what percentage is your take? Do you get a fee for referrals? Look at the complaints about Carnival cruise lines. Why do you let advertising go on that promote these Carnival cruises after the many complaints from comsumers on your site that they are horrible. A true consumer site wouldn't be such a hypercrite.

your articles look interesting but the salmon ads cover the text

I looked at two topics on ConsumerAffairs.com on June 22, 2006 and in both cases I noticed a complete conflict of interest. The first was a dire warning on the use of Advair asthma inhaler arguing for the removal of such inhalers from the market immediately. At the top of the screen was an ad for the product. The second article was the horror stories regarding trying to terminate AOL service. At the left of that screen was an ad for AOL. In other words, we have the image of a business drawing people into this site thinking that this is a consumer protection organization but in fact, it is just another Internet business making it's money by advertising the very things it is reporting as problems for consumers. That's why Consumers Union takes no ads. Although it appears to be rather cute that you get the very companies you are reporting on to pay for the page that questions the dealings of those companies, it still leaves a very bad taste in one's mouth.

Yours is the only site I have where a POP uP adverisement comes up. I don't like that. Not even a pop up from American Express offfering me another credit card like you have on.

Visited site to find about H&R Block and the lawsuit against them by the State of CA. Was shocked, horrified, and disgusted to see ads for H&R Block on the site. Spare me the it's Google and we have no control over what they send us. Would you allow Block to say that? Hell no. Very hypocritical.

I'm calling you out on the carpet. You say you are not anti hybrid but lets look at the current list of artciles on hybrids: A Wild Ride in a Prius • First Chinese Prius Ready to Go • Prius Supplies Will Remain Tight Through 2006 • Prius Runs Amok After Stalling, Hits Tow Truck • Toyota Boosts Prius Price, Cancels Fleet Sales • Toyota Continues to Sell Faulty Prius Hybrids • Greens Call Toyota a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing • Toyota Warns Prius Owners of Stalling • GM Sells Subaru Stake to Toyota, Which Increases Stake in Hybrid Battery Supplier • Prius Profiteering as Salesmen Squeeze Consumers • Prius Turns Profits in Used-Car Market • Feds Open Probe into Prius Stalling • Prius Problems Traced to Software Glitch • Toyota Probes Prius Stalling Problem You state that the extra cost of a hybrid is not recouped in gas savings.

Wrote a load of tripe article A Wild Ride In A Prius. Attributed the problem to software with no evidence. Could just have been a stuck accelerator just like any other car, right? Just sensationalist garbage. I've seen more accurate reporting in the checkout line at the grocery store.

Your website has plenty of articles which are CRITICAL of Hybrid Cars, but none which are POSITIVE. What about the THOUSANDS of hybrid owners who are completed pleased with their hybrid cars, as I am? Do we have a voice on your site? Why does your site appear on the surface to be Anti-Hybrid?

While trying to read an article a pop up for me to take a survey blocked the article I was trying to read. This is un acceptable. Last time I go to this website.

This was my first visit to consumeraffairs.com. I found it to be remarkably ignorant with its one-sided version of complaints. I think you should do a better job of presenting an unbiased version instead of of course we all know the big companies are out to screw us mentality. I wonder where this complaint will be posted? Thanks.

As the Chair of the Consumer Affairs Committee of the Retired Public Employees Association of California, I read your email daily and frequently quote from it in the RPEA Newsletter (circulation 37,000). You do an excellent job of publishing consumer news that people need to know. However, your printer-friendly format is an example of the worst treatment consumers could possibly get. When the consumer/reader hits print he gets a version that is too wide to print the entire line, and your format will not permit the end of one line to go to the next line for printing. If one does this then he has to spend a considerable amount of time (depending on the length of the article) writing in (using pen or pencil) the missed words at the end of the line. YOUR WEB PAGE IS THE ONLY ONE I HAVE EXPERIENCED WITH THIS PROBLEM.

I have read many of your reviews and all of them are negitive. What tv to buy? none. Where to buy it? nowhere. Something that I thought should definitely be brought to your attention was my experience with service contracts. I purchased my television ( A 50 Sony LCD rear projection) at my local Circuit City and was absolutely thrilled with the TV. Against what I thought was my better judgment I purchaced a 4 year City Advantage plan and have been thrilled in the extreme with it. My TV was dammaged by a power surge some months back and the company had a repair tech in my home the next day.

Your website is just a cry baby outfit that does nothing but allow a one sided b___h session. Try getting both sides of the stories you hacks!

I wish that for once you people would publish the positive stories about extended warranties.. all I ever read is that circuit city did this or best buy did that, however what you fail to realize is that those two companies rely on another company to do their repair work. Why do you not attack the actual repair company or educate to your consumers that it is not Circuit Cit or Best Buy that is in the wrong, they just sell the service they do not actually perform the service. I have had nothng but positive results in all my extended warranties, why because i read the comprehensive booklet (which is required by CA law to be passed out, I do not know what the law states in other cities like Virginia or the District of Columbia but they may be the same) within the alloted time for the extended warranty to be returned so if I do not agree i can return it and get my full refund which is always something that can be done within the alloted time frame, even if the employee of that company reassured me that everything was covered which what I think that everybody chooses to hear.

Have you verified the complaints listed on your web site about Home Depot's Expo centers? There is a boycott of Home Depot by Arab/Muslim groups ( they have various web sites), who refer to the founder and CEO who happens to be Jewish as a Zionist. Are you validated the negative reports or are they merely plants by hate groups?

While I found your site quite interesting, its my opinion that lawyers need to back off a bit when it comes to the "sue everyone" mentality. Granted, I know you make a living practicing law. (Im glad the electrician that wired my house wasnt practicing his trade) And, suing people is part of that. But, is that all that law school taught you? Isnt there a more respectable way?