TOP TEN CONSUMER COMPLAINTS

According to The “Top 10 Consumer Complaints” list, annually compiled by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and the North American Consumer Protection Investigators, here are the Top 10 Complaints in 2013:
1. Auto: Misrepresentations in advertising or sales of new and used cars, lemons, faulty repairs, leasing and towing disputes
2. Home Improvement/Construction: Shoddy work, failure to start or complete the job
3. Credit/Debt: Billing and fee disputes, mortgage modifications and mortgage-related fraud, credit repair, debt relief services, predatory lending, illegal or abusive debt collection tactics
4. Retail Sales: False advertising and other deceptive practices, defective merchandise, problems with rebates, coupons, gift cards and gift certificates, failure to deliver
5. Services: Misrepresentations, shoddy work, failure to have required licenses, failure to perform
6. Utilities: Service problems or billing disputes with phone, cable, satellite, Internet, electric and gas service
7. Landlord/Tenant: Unhealthy or unsafe conditions, failure to make repairs or provide promised amenities, deposit and rent disputes, illegal eviction tactics
8. (tie) Home Solicitations: Misrepresentations or failure to deliver in door-to-door, telemarketing or mail solicitations, do-not-call violations
8. (tie) Internet Sales: misrepresentations or other deceptive practices, failure to deliver online purchases
9. Health Products/Services: Misleading claims, unlicensed practitioners, failure to deliver
10. Fraud: Bogus sweepstakes and lotteries, work-at-home schemes, grant offers, fake check scams, imposter scams and other common frauds
* Capitalism – the best darn system ever invented.
* #11 – all those TV shows about naked people dating in the jungle always blur out the naked parts.
* #12 – when you try and quit Comcast but they won’t let you.
* #13 – people on dating websites never looking like their picture.
* #14 – vegetables. Whose idea were they, anyway?
* Gee, all these new products and look at cars: still holding down #1.
* I for one would like to complain that the consumer complaints list only goes to ten and not 25.
* I also hate it when they put the candy bars right by the checkout line and I impulse-buy one.
* My biggest consumer complaint? When the ads tell us they know what I’m thinking.