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About.Com: Online Shopping
An Internet consumer guide to online shopping, with feature articles, Website guides, and discussion forums. Topics covered include Online Shopping 101, customer support & assistance, and product guides.
2. Consumer Information Center (CIC)
This federal government site includes full text information about cars, health, working conditions, and much more.
3. Consumer Protection
This Federal Trade Commission site offers the full text of consumer publications on a wide range of categories. Publications cover issues such as homes and real estate, credit, investment, automobiles, and health and fitness. It includes especially good information on how to avoid scams (not just telemarketing, but loans, jobs, 900 numbers, etc.). The publications are also available in Spanish.
4. Consumer World
Consumer World has gathered over 1100 of the most useful consumer resources on the Internet. Whether you want to check an airfare, find an ATM machine anywhere in the world, file a consumer complaint with a state agency, read consumer booklets, find a low rate credit card or mortgage, research a law, look up the wholesale price of a car, locate a Better Business Bureau, find a toll-free number, listen (literally) to the latest news, contact a company's customer service department, comparison shop for bargains and last minute travel, check stock quotes or CD rates, read a movie review or see a preview, or clip electronic coupons, you can do it in Consumer World.
5. Consumers Union
This web site, brought to you by the people who publish Consumer Reports,
provides informative and educational materials developed by Consumers
Union's advocacy offices on a variety of consumer issues. There is an
especially good section on food safety and food labels.
