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You Can’t Publish That! 3 Wiki War Stories and What You Can Learn From Them

May 23, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
A funny thing happened about a year ago to the consumer advocacy wiki that I edit. It disappeared. I continued to publish the site, which lists the names, addresses and phone numbers of the executives for most major American companies....

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Memorial Day Shopping and Travel Secrets Of a Consumer Advocate

May 16, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
One of the busiest days of shopping is just around the corner. And if this Memorial Day is anything like last year, chances are you’ll be heading to the mall or out of town on a trip. Either way, you’ll...

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Conned Again! 5 Ways to Avoid Rip-Off Replay

May 9, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
Conned Again! 5 Ways to Avoid Rip-Off ReplayYou’ve probably heard of the phone support scam, where criminals call you to warn about a “virus” on your PC. Only by paying an annual protection fee can you avoid a cataclysmic meltdown. But did you know that the scammers...

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3 Signs You’re About to Be Ripped Off By the “Government”

May 2, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
If you’re a business owner in Indiana, maybe you received a recent invoice from the Secretary of State’s office. It’s a bill for a $125 annual fee for “record keeping and processing of a company’s annual minutes.” And it’s bogus,...

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5 Signs You’re a Smart Consumer

April 25, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
How can you tell the difference between a smart consumer and a sucker? Salespeople spend a career studying their customers, trying to understand who makes an easy mark. Businesses study their customers, using test marketing, sophisticated analytics and outside consultants....

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The 5 Habits of Highly Annoying Customers and How to Avoid Them

April 18, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
The 5 Habits of Highly Annoying Customers and How to Avoid ThemThe customer is not always right. The squeaky wheel doesn’t necessarily get the grease. Ignorance is not bliss. Those are just the leading annoying behaviors exhibited by consumers. And that’s not all. Customers make mistakes — lots of mistakes —...

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You Did What? 5 Foolish Things Consumers Do

April 11, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
You Did What? 5 Foolish Things Consumers DoYou’re a smart, enlightened consumer. Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. But even smart people sometimes do dumb things. I see it almost every day. There’s no scientific link between intelligence and better consumer behavior, at least none that I’ve...

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5 Times You Should Never, Ever Wire Money

April 4, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
5 Times You Should Never, Ever Wire MoneyThe email came from an acquaintance who had a respectable management job in Washington. “I’m sorry for this emergency,” she wrote, “but I just have to let you know about my present predicament.” She’d been called away on a trip...

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Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing…But What if it Isn’t?

March 28, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing…But What if it Isn’t?How do you spot a fake? If you’re ordering a product online, like Aaron Gold, it’s hard to tell. Maybe even impossible. Gold recently tried to find a spare battery for his Asus laptop computer, and finally located one through...

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When Should You Give a Business a Second Chance?

March 21, 2013 / Christopher Elliott
When Should You Give a Business a Second Chance?If you’ve been alive long enough to collect an allowance from your parents, chances are you’ve been burned by a business. It happens to all of us: We buy something, it isn’t the product we expected, and the company tells...

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