ConsumerAffairs Reviews

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?