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• 7582 Smiths Creek Road - Couple in Port Huron, Michigan tells about a bad deal with Royal Mortgage Company and Crest Homes.
• Bad Experience with Blue Marble Biking - Tourist on biking tour is bitten by dog, requires stitches. Company is barred from hotel because of incident, and in turn bars tourist from further tours.
• BankRate.com: How to Complain to Your Bank and Win - General advice about resolving bank complaints.
• Best Buy Receipt Check - Shopper declines to show register receipt for purchase to door guard at Lakewood Best Buy, which is voluntary. Employees attempt to seize cart, stand in shopper's path, and park a truck behind shopper's car to prevent departure.
• Blue Cross Don't Pay - Customer describes Blue Cross's reasons to avoid paying claims.
• Bosley Medical Violations - Consumer information regarding the Bosley Medical Group business practices and disciplinary history of L. Lee Bosley.
• BosleyMedical.com - Consumer information about The Bosley Medical Institute and Bosley Medical Group. Facts about nationwide hair restoration centers, new patients and first starts.
• Boycott USPS - US Postal Service denied claims for insured damaged computer.
• Building with Richmond American Homes - An experience in building a new house with Richmond American Homes of VA. Includes pictures, videos, letters, and documents.
• Carolina Furniture Ripoff - Customer claims owner of the store is under investigation for fraud in North Carolina and South Carolina. Includes chronological report.
• Charter Communications of Kalamazoo - Customer alleges poor cable TV service.
• Chemistrycoach.com - Apologies for the interruption - Story explaining how myhosting.com killed, without warning, a teacher's popular educational website.
• Companies that Screwed Me - Complaints about several companies.
• Complaints.com Consumer Complaints - Database of consumer complaints and consumer advocacy.
• Complaints.com.my - Malaysian site for consumer complaints and compliments. Get advice, read and solve consumer problem.
• CompUSA Complaint Forum - A place to add complaints or compliment about the products or services of the company.
• Computer Geeks Sucks - Customer bought defective CD-MP3 player, was shipped defective replacement twice, and was charged 15% restocking fee upon returning last one for refund.
• Conscientious Consuming - A resource for people who believe in conscientious consuming, whatever their conscience.
• Consumer Alerts - A personal list of companies the author has had dealings with in the past. Includes copies of complaints and correspondence.
• Consumer Business & Product Reports - Log a complaint about any product or service. Before making another purchase, search content to see if there are products or services that may have been recalled or should be avoided.
• Consumer Soundoff - A consumer advocate who helps reconcile consumer disputes and problems with businesses, companies and corporations.
• ConsumerAffairs.Com - Offering comprehensive information for consumers: recalls, scams, complaints, good guys, and reports about consumer problems.
• Costco Web Pharmacy Sucks - Claims online prescription service, not affiliated with the retail chain, is overpriced.
• Countrywide Home Loan Sucks - Tells a story of unfair business practices with Countrywide Home Loan.
• Cruise from Hell - A description of a Norwegian Cruise Lines cruise with links to others who went through the same situations.
• Culotta Homes - A place for current and prospective owners of a home built by Culotta Homes in Waterdown, Ontario to share experiences and information.
• Dixie Pool Dispute in Orlando - Homeowner documents a series of complaints about the installation of an inground pool conducted by Dixie Pools and Spas in Orlando, Florida. Photographs and descriptions spanning an 18-month period.
• Don't Buy from RussianArtSoul.com - Details negative buying experiences with DIADA USA, owner of RussianArtSoul.com and Unigift.
• Don't Shop at Target Stores - Examines negative experiences with Target's customer service and return/exchange policies.
• Dot Con Avenue - Gives account of the experience which ninet.co.uk had with hosting company, 'Dot Com Avenue'.
• Dotcomavenue.com - A Bad and Ongoing Experience - A report of ongoing troubles with an intransigent service provider.
• Ed Foster's Gripelog - A place where customers of technology products can air their beefs with vendors and read about the problems and issues other customers are raising.
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car is a Failing Enterprise - Enterprise Rent-A-Car didn't honor reservations, didn't have cars ready as stated, rented cars with nearly empty tanks, and charged higher prices to corporate account holder.
• Federal Trade Commission - Billed for Merchandise You Never Received? Here's What To Do - Steps to take in a dispute, sample dispute letter, and tips for shopping online or by catalog.
• Fesay's Doors - A Consumer Review - Review of the poor service customer received from Fesay's Doors and its owner, Don Fecay, located in Michigan.
• Floramex, Personal Bad Experience - Customer paid for delivery of fresh roses. Roses developed purple spots the next day, and died without ever blossoming.
• Grumbletext - Submit and read opinions and complaints on big corporations in the UK. Site creates news stories based on user contributed content and actively publicises it to the media.
• Huntington Home Builders Problems - Home built by Texas builder Huntington Homes has toxic black mold, many construction defects, and has had 7 water leaks/floods and a gas leak in 5+ years of ownership.
• I Hate Starbucks - Anti-Starbucks site with a guestbook for visitors to voice their opinions.
• Incompetent Business Practices of NorthAmerican Van Lines and C & D Moving of Danbury, CT - History of complaint and legal actions from early 2004.
• Infomercial Scams - Provides unedited complaints about many popular infomercial products.
• It Pays to Complain - Provides articles, online complaint forms, forum, newsletter and contact links to corporations.
• JC Penney's Customer Treatment Philosophy - JC Penney sent erroneous report of $2607.93 judgment for nonpayment of store credit card debt to credit reporting agencies. Despite collection attorneys admitting error in May 2000, report still not retracted in January 2001.
• Jvision Image Name Dispute - Object Insight lawyers threatened trademark infringement lawsuit over filenames containing the letters "jvision", such as an unrelated "jvision.gif" image.
• Knapp Shoes Lies - Customer claims company makes defective products and values profits over safety. Includes email contact.
• Lakeland Mills - Consumer claims company in Edmore, Michigan makes defective products that cause injury and urges boycott.
• Malbax.com - A UK customer site warning about the problems associated with purchasing cigarettes and tobacco via the internet, from other EU countries. Includes customer comments.
• masonite Siding Class Action Settlements - Includes Masonite hardboard siding page, Omniwood siding page, Woodruf roofing page.
• MP3PlayerStore.com's Bad Business Practices - Contains a consumer complaint about an order for two MP3 players which was filled incorrectly with much cheaper items. History of the complaint and follow up action including other consumers involved with the company.
• Mr. G's Sucks - Reports plastic restoration service business does not have a quality guarantee. Includes complaint letters.
• My Currys Shopping Experience - Story of a Sony television, purchased in October 2000 at Currys in London.
• Natwest Bank Fraud - Claims against the illegal and unethical practices of National Westminster Bank, UK.
• No XpressPost - Claims that Canada Posts' XpressPost insurance policy scams the public due to their bad handling and carelessness with the public's mail.
• Northwestern Mutual Complaints - National Association of Security Dealers has been investigating allegedly deceptive sales practices.
• Pebble Creek Apartments, Utica, Michigan - Complaints of a tenant.
• Penn Manor Condominium Problems - Contains photos and list of zoning code violations of Penn Manor Condominium in Miami Beach, Florida.
• PoetryNOTcom - Detailed complaints against Poetry.com, a vanity press.
• Price Waterhouse Coopers Discrimination - Umang Malhotra's detailed account of racial discrimination by Price Waterhouse UK and biased judgments by UK Tribunals.
• Problem with Ecost.com - Full details of a problem with this a purchase of software from this company.
• Quarles Petroleum Concealment of Oil Spills - Oil spills and resulting lawsuits are described. Contains information those whose property has been damaged by an incompetent or dishonest oil dealer.
• Quest of the Unquietmind - Web journal of thoughtful dissent.
• Reality Click - Promotes customer relationships. Realityclickers can post rant or rave messages and realityclick will then email the company mentioned and let them know that there is a posting directed towards them.
• Retail Ethics - Ken McIsaac complains about unethical retail moneymaking tactics.
• Rip-off Report - A venue for consumer complaints about companies and individuals who have allegedly mistreated them.
• Roy True - Builder / Investor And Weasel - Justin, Texas - A bad experience with the owner of Conestoga Custom Homes, a distributor of Clear Span Modular Structures.
• Rude Insulting Bank Employees - Bank employees who are described as stone-faced, unfriendly and unprofessional.
• Scandinavian tour operator VING - How worlds biggest tour operator (Airtours) acts when an accident happens. Actual material form investigation, police reports and correspondence from VING management told by survivor of bus crash.
• Screwed Central - Numerous forums for posting consumer complaints and injustices.
• Selby General Hospital - Claims poor treatment in emergency room.
• Shopping.com Lies - On April 26, 1999, Shopping.com announced commercial accounts would be closed after 5 PM on April 27. However, the commercial accounts were closed immediately.
• Spectrum Energy - Highlights controversial marketing activities of Spectrum Energy of Bournemouth.
• Starbucked - Consumer Activism is for Everyone - Jeremy Dorosin takes on Starbucks. A problem with a wedding gift sparks a website that major newspapers and network TV news have turned into a major consumer backlash.
• The Complaint Station - Provides central location to complain about issues related to companies products, services, employment and get rich quick scams.
• The Credit Card Complaint Page - Post and read consumer complaints.
• The Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing Course Review - "Read my experience of Glenn Canady's Gorilla Website Marketing Course, ABDevelopment, and how I believe I wasted $8000 with these people."
• The Most Expensive $94 Orbitz Will Ever Make - Orbitz refused to change impossible flight itinerary, and ignored request for refund.
• The Short End of The Stick - Compares incomes of top corporate CEO's with those of entry level employees to document the growing disparity between rich and poor.
• The Torn-Up Credit Card Application - Torn-up application for a Chase MasterCard is taped together and sent in with a different address and a cell phone number. Despite Chase's advice to tear up unwanted applications, Chase accepts application and sends out a brand new MasterCard.
• The UK Consumer's Complaint List - Forum for consumers to air their complaints and accounts.
• The Unofficial American Express Consumer Opinion Site - Post and read about experiences on the message boards.
• TheGripe.com - Read new gripes or submit your gripe.
• TheSqueakyWheel.com: View Complaints - Browsable and searchable collection of consumer complaints posted by website visitors.
• This Is Broken - A project to make companies more aware of their customers' experiences. Submit your own entry.
• Timbron - Fire Safety Warning - Timbron brand moulding safety warning. This product, made from recycled styrofoam, is sold at Home Depot.
• Traffic Power Sucks - SEO firm allegedly violates a number of ethical standards.
• Travel in India - Tourist tells his story about how Tour Club, a travel agency in India, ruined his vacation.
• Trendwest Collection Practices and Non-Cancelable Contract - Complaints from those who have bought into Trendwest Resorts' time-share program.
• Unofficial Capital One Consumer Complaint Site - Relates bad experiences with credit cards, customer service and billing/credit reporting policies. Includes articles and forum.
• Warning! Scientific Glass Works of Ambala Cantt, India - A late 1999 purchase is still undelivered in late 2001. Company does not respond to customer queries.
• Warning. 2by2 is a scam. - Explains why you should not buy any of this company's products or services.
• Werner: The Big Blue Screw - Criticizes Werner Enterprises. Claims of fradulent and unethical training.
• What's Wrong at Jiffy Lube? - Vehicle inspector at Dallas, Texas, location did not follow regulations when performing vehicle inspection, leading to investigation by Department of Public Safety. Links to dozens of other webpages reporting issues with Jiffy Lube.
• Winnebago Rialta Motorhome RV - Account of problems the author experienced with a purchase.

Media publications

• Camera Confidential - Undercover shopping expedition reveals doubtful deals, padded prices, and pushy salespeople. Offers advice for how to keep from being burned. [PC World] (Published 2003.02.00)
• Consumers Union Statement about Consumer Distorts - Consumers Union's response to now-defunct corporate-backed "Consumer Distorts" website. (Published 1999.12.00)
• NPR : Customer Sues Sears over Repair Service - Lawyer Joseph Williams of Baltimore County, Md. sued Sears when a repairman failed to show up to fix his dryer at the time Sears said he would. He won his case, and received a $1 judgment, but he believes he sent the company an important message. (Published 2005.03.19)

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• Ed Foster's Gripelog (RSS) - A place where customers of technology products can air their beefs with vendors and read about the problems and issues other customers are raising.