Consumers Report
-- William T. Holmes
Before you buy, learn what others have experienced with the
business or product you are considering.
Post your experiences so others can avoid your problems or share
your joy.
Don't let others be harmed by the quack who harmed you. Drive bad
businesses permanently out of business. Help good businesses prosper
with your praise.
Find business, product or service
Use our Forums
system to search for product or service experiences before you
buy. You need not be a registered participant to search. Just select
the Access the Messages Database link and search for messages
pertinent to your general interest by selecting the appropriate
"Consumer" forum from the pop-up menu. Three existing forums are
Consumers
Report - Auto,
Consumers
Report - General and
Consumers
Report - Medical.
More specific searches can be performed by adding a key word or
phrase to the message field as well as selecting a forum. A list of
all of the messages that match your criteria will appear.
Describe business, product or service
Use our business card system to be
easily found by local and type of business. Use the Forums
system to Post your problems with or praise of specific products
or services. You must be a registered participant to add messages or
forums, so first select the Access the Participant Database
link.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated by us.
Consumer Alert
If you have been harmed by a product or otherwise wronged by a
business and have exhausted every recourse but legal action, we
encourage you to do the following:
- Write a letter using your word processor or email program.
- Date the letter.
- Get appropriate addresses for the letter and include all of
them in the beginning of the letter.
- Concisely describe your personal experience in
chronological order with as little emotion as possible, i.e.
use few adjectives or adverbs. State only the facts as you know
them. Do NOT use pronouns, like you or your. In
every case use the name of the company or product as
appropriate.
- Conclude in a separate paragraph the threat to engage in
legal action within thirty days of their receipt of your letter
if their contract is not honored or you are not otherwise made
whole.
- Further conclude in a separate paragraph the threat to post
your experience on the Consumers-Report.com forum.
- Further conclude in a separate paragraph the threat to
issue a Consumer Alert email message with the request
that it be forwarded by all recipients. Include the fact that
it will only be a matter of weeks from the time the message is
issued before practically everyone with an email address will
be aware of how you were dishonored by the business.
- Print and mail the letter(s) certified mail to each
address.
- Save the digital version of the letter as a file for
subsequent use should the business not be forthcoming.
- Post your experience on one of the forums described above.
- If the letter fails to achieve the desired results, copy
the date, address list and description of your experience,
excluding the forum and email threat paragraphs, and paste it
into a forum message.
- Email your experience to everyone on your personal email
address list.
- Copy everything, including the last two paragraphs from
your letter and paste it into an email message.
- Ad an extra space or two between the last paragraph and the
rest of the message.
- Modify the last paragraph to address the recipient rather
than the business and encourage them to forward the message to
everyone on their list to save others the torment you
suffered.
- Send the message to every email address you have.
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