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HomeOwners for Better Building
Dedicated to helping homeowners resolve their construction defects, and exposing the use, abuse, and unfair tactics of binding arbitration in new home contracts.

Traktag.com
Offers a lost and found service for property as well as a monthly newsletter on loss prevention and personal safety tips.

Independent Consumer Complaint Network
This is a site that allows users to log complaints on any company globally. Users and companies alike can browse through the database and read all about complaints on companies

Fight Back
Offers a public complaint board, special reports and advice.

Complaintline.com.au
Gateway to complaints agencies and codes of practice.

Fraud Bureau
Web Fraud and Web Scams Complaint Centre providing Information on internet scams and internet fraud prevention.

Consumer Line
Consumer advice and complaints information for consumers, contains a directory of consumer organisation contacts.

My Woes
A consumer complaint site. This site lets you read complaints from other consumers.

TheSqueakyWheel
Helps dissatisfied consumers get refunds and apologies.

Theme Park Accident Reports
A volunteer-run program to create a database of accidents involving injury at major amusement parks around the world. Includes safety tips for visitors and families.

Truth and Justice
A site devoted to insurance company problems.

NACAA-The National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators
Offers free help in making a complaint, constructing a letter, and finding the consumer agency for your complaint.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC )
Official federal agency website, including recalls, reports, and alerts.

Complaintbook.com
A consumer action and advocacy portal for addressing and articulating complaints.

National Consumer Protection Week
A week to highlight consumer protection and education efforts around the USA.

Find-It Consumer
Web site search engine for "one stop consumer help". It provides a single stop for searching more than 100 consumer protection and public safety web sites.

Justice Junction
Read consumer complaints or post your own.

CarpOn
Offers a searcheable consumer complaints site.

Consumer Watchdog
Consumer Rights and Buying advice with Geoff Sirmai, Australia's foremost consumer columnist, commentator and advocate.

Best Frauds
Site that claims to exposes con jobs, shams, public deception, fraudulent marketing, schemes, RICO, and extortion.

Consumer Advocate Tim Duffy
Consumer advocate offering advice on how to get the most for your money and pitfalls all consumers should be aware of.

ConsumerTips.com
Links to complaint sites, scam alerts, fraud complaint centers, advice columns, advocacy resources for products, automotive, real estates, taxes, financial including credit cards.

Seek123.com
Choose from consumer affairs, complaint and organizations links, or seek for yourself.

uSpeakOut.com
Dedicated to enabling consumers to voice their own experiences and opinions about companies, products and services.

Contractors From Hell
Information and resources on contracting for and hiring home remodeling contractors.

Holiday TravelWatch
Consumer advice relating to holiday and travel complaints. Offers assistance to consumers who have suffered appalling holidays.

smokersunite
Smokers are tired of being taxed.

Insurance Consumer Advocate Network
Retired adjuster created site where consumers receive tips on buying auto and/or homeowner insurance as well as help in settling auto insurance claims, home insurance claims and personal injury claims.

eCrooks
Discusses how to deal with ecrooks or Internet con-artists, who do not deliver merchandise.

Oil Filter Wrench Complaints
Submit and view complaints from "backyard mechanics" and auto professionals frustrated with currently available oil filter wrenches. Complaints will be issued to tool manufacturers.

Western2 Award Program
The Internet version of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Provide service based on reports from actual customers of Internet businesses reliability and customer satisfaction.

SMG Consulting
With over 30 years of experience S.M.G. Consulting provides services ranging from leak investigation and field testing to legal dispute resolution.

My 3 Cents
Provides a forum for consumers to send complaint letters, post opinions on any company or product, and interact with other consumers.

FairComment.com
FairComment.con is an organisation dedicated to championing the consumer's rights for fair play for goods or services purchased from big businesses.

Capital Recovery Group
Specializes in the identification and recovery of funds from property-related class action settlements for defective construction materials to compensate qualified residential property owners adversely affected by the defective products.

Stop Anthem
Consumer advocacy site created as a means for Anthem Insurance Company policy holders to post their opinions about the current request for rate hikes, as well as future hikes.

Psychic Network scam.
This site contains information and help for people who are victims of 1-900 phone scams of all types, but mainly psychic scams.

NewBuyer Buying Guides
Buying portals of rated links in objective, easy to navigate buying guides to help buyers make confident buying decisions

Massachusetts Housing Consumer Education Centers
One-stop Shopping for Housing Information and Referrals offered by the Massachusetts Nonprofit Housing Association's statewide network of housing agencies. Tenants, landlords, prospective buyers and homeowners can access information, referrals, brief counseling or workshops on a wide range of housing issues.

Theft Library
Offers free on-line electronic library of theft reports submitted by anyone who has had something stolen from them.

Trading Standards Consumer Complaints
This website is a free online service, which allows you to make a consumer complaint to your local Trading Standards Service concerning consumer problems.

Tattletale Consumer Hotline
A consumer information web site providing consumer tips, alerts, health and fitness notes, and private sector and public sector information. Additonally, consumers may post complaints and get answers to questions.

Company Integrity dot Com
This is a public complaint site where you can add complaints and view those of others.

North East Mediation & Arbitration
North East Mediation & Arbitration Expediates Resolutions Through a cooperative and Supportive Environment.

ChoiceTrust
Consumers can access their personal credit report and insurance score. Also offers tools to find doctors, dentists or chiropractors, and research to verify professionals and businesses.

BizOpRefund.com
Offers members only access to assistance in getting money refunded without an attorney.

Damn Companies Complaint Center
A consumer advocate company's site where one can submit a complaint and they'll actively try, on your behalf, to satisfy your complaint.

Rude and Insulting Bank Employees
Bank customers who have been ill-treated by bank employees, should discontinue doing business at their bank

ASK!
The site describes a book that teaches people how to be one's own best consumer advocate. Live, free email help from author is available.

Better Business Bureau / Central Northern Arizona
Offers reliability reports on businesses and charities; provides tips and brochures on making wise purchasing and giving decisions; facilitates complaint resolution. Alerts to current marketplace scams and frauds.

Consumer Voice
Consumer-oriented website designed by professionals with an expertise and special interest in protecting and educating the consumer.

National Business Reporting Bureau
Offers free reports to consumers concerning business practices of its members. Offers limited information on businesses that are non-members.

So You Wanna.com: Refunds
Consumer information regarding refund requests, effective letter writing tips, enlisting outside sources, follow up and small claims court.

Hall, Jason - Fraud Prevention
This page offers merchants and consumers strategies to minimize the risk of online credit card fraud and ID theft.

Protecting Yourself from Consumer Fraud
Florida Citizen Safety Center. Short text articles on many potential fraud situations.

Consumers' Association of Canada
An independent, non-profit volunteer organization, represents and informs consumers and advocates action on their behalf to improve the quality of life.

Seal California Arrest Records On Line
Obtain free investigator search tools that allows you to operate like a private investigator and obtain information plus a section to seal court records on line.

Safe Shopping Online
Provides consumers information about how to safely pay online and dispute charges. Also offers merchants a guide on how to investigate and prevent fraudulent orders.

Refunds.Org.UK - consumer information
Practical advice and tips on refunds, replacements, credits and compensation for poor service and shoddy goods across the UK.

International Consumer Rights Protection Council
Help and guidance to file complaints with the consumer court in India.

Texans for Builder Reform
Working to bring about reforms to the unregulated Texas home building industry to provide consumer protection for new home buyers and licensing of all Texas home builders.

Buy or Bust.com
Provides reviews on infomercial type products and assigns them a rating of buy, beware, or bust.

BorrowerHelp.com
Mission is to help borrowers resolve their issues to insure that the practices of servicers do not impede home ownership. Includes educational sections.

Florida Apartments To Avoid
Issues a warning about an unscrupulous Florida landlord, a LASIK doctor who doesn't live up to his word, and a utility company that plays tricks with meter readings.

Cape Crusaders
Log on and post complaints, recommendations, questions, or suggestions about businesses on Cape Cod. Includes database search and feedback form.

Warranty Magazine
Articles about warranties, service contracts, industry and consumer news.

DisciplinedDocs.com
Search State databases to see whether a medical doctor or physician has been fined, disciplined, lost his/her license to practice medicine, been suspended, or had license revoked.

Ticket Scam Resource Center
Informs consumers about the different types of scams involving concert and sporting event tickets.

Consumer Patrol 1
Offers a complaint forum, news tips, and customer service and product ratings.

Partnership to Protect Consumer Credit
Industry-supported group supporting the renewal of certain provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

The Consumer Gateway
A one-stop service run by the United Kingdom's Department of Trade and Industry. Provides information and links to sources of further advice on issues of concern to general consumers.

The Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs - MCCA
Consists of all Commonwealth, State, Territory and New Zealand Ministers responsible for fair trading, consumer protection laws and credit laws.

Consumers Online
The Australian government's one-stop-shop for consumer information and advice.

PlanetFeedback
Gives you the tools to send all forms of feedback to companies. Provides company contact information, letter generator, news, storage space and resources to empower you as a consumer.

Unethical Billing Practices
Informs readers about a growing trend of companies placing unauthorized credit card charges on their accounts. Includes personal stories, advice, and message board.

Indbazaar.com
A guide for the Indian consumer, with consumer rights and contact information.

Oh No You Don't Forum
Consumer products, reviews, tips, recalls and consumer alerts. Discussion forum. Tell others about problems you may be having with your product.

Consumers International (CI)
Supports, links and represents consumer groups and agencies all over the world. It has a membership of over 250 organisations in over 100 countries. It strives to promote a fairer society through defending the rights of all consumers, especially the poor, marginalised and disadvantaged.