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Week of December 4, 2023
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Consumer News Quickies

Returns Change: More Stores Say "Keep It" Instead of Mailing It Back

WARNING: Some Medicare Drug Plans Drop Insulin!


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'Tis the Season for Gift Card Scams

FTC Contest Seeks Cures for Voice Clone Scams

Do LED Face Masks Really Work?

Social Security Wants Overpayments Back

Common Food Expiration Dates, And Some With None

The Best $100 You Can Spend on Car Maintenance

FCC Adopts Rules to Thwart SIM Swapping Scams

Maker of Motorola Cable Modems May Go Belly Up

The History of the Common But Odd 30-Year Mortgage

How Crooks Can Tell You Are Really Not Home

10 Renovations That Are Going Out of Style

Look at All the Credit Cards That Dropped Price Protection

Michiganders: If Overcharged, Don't Forget the Bounty Owed You

How to Use Google to Find Shopping Deals

What Happens to Credit Card Debt After You Die?

Dollar General Fined $850K for Overcharges in Wisconsin

New FDA Rule Requires Better Disclosure of Drug Side Effects

6 Bizzare Reasons for Product Returns

How to Avoid Holiday Shopping Traps and Fake Goods

Surprising Uses for Peanut Butter

When Is the Best Time to Take Vitamins

Beware/Report Misleading Medicare Advantage Sales Tactics

Fast Food Prices Going Up

More About All That Bacteria Found in Eye Drops

Strings Attached to Some Interest Offers Paying 7%

How Online Sellers Using Dark Patterns Cost You Money

Pros and Cons of Points vs. Cash Back Credit Cards

How to Baby Your Old Computer to Extend Its Life

3 Shopping Add-ons to Find Discount Codes

States That Get the Most/Fewest Spam Calls

Most Americans Received More Phone/Text Scams in 2023

They Paid $115K for a 3-Year Cruise That Just Got Cancelled


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Mouse Print*-- How to Cut Package Shipping Costs

mouse print Just in time for the holidays, how would you like to save perhaps 30-percent when mailing a package? MrConsumer did it last week and shows you little-known shipping services that can save you money. That is our Mouse Print* story this week.


Most Reliable Car Brands; Electrics Less Reliable Than Gas

new car With the high price of cars these days, you want one that is not going to need lots of repairs. Consumer Reports is out with reliability ratings of all the major car brands. New findings reveal that hybrid cars have fewer problems than those with internal combustion engines. But plug-in hybrids and fully electric cars are less reliable than their gas-powered counterparts. Here is a video interview with two Consumer Reports analysts explaining their new EV reliability ratintgs.


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25 Clever Uses of Baking Soda

baking soda Consumer World readers are practical folks, so you will probably extract at least a few new ideas from this story on novel uses of baking soda. Got a burnt pot bottom? Try baking soda! Got oil stains in your driveway? Try baking soda! Got water marks on wood? Guess what to try!



Consumer Insight

How Amazon Fills Orders Robotically

[Ignore NBC ad at start.] You may love or hate Amazon, but one has to admire how they try to make order deliveries as efficient as possible. A friend ordered a new cable modem in Boston, and it came later that day! Here is a series of NBC News segments looking inside the Amazon complex and then at other holiday consumer issues.



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Bargain of the Week

Tell the Kids/Grandkids: $25 Airfares!

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday ONLY: If your college student kid or grandkid is a member of Amazon Prime Student ($69/yr) they have a chance to buy a $25 one-way or roundtrip airfare ticket on December 5, 6, and 7th, up to $500 off. Only one-thousand tickets will be sold a day at this price. Details are here and at the bottom here. The odds of getting these tickets are slim because the demand will be huge.

See also: Hot Deals

Consumer Reports

Good Coffeemakers Under $50

Consumer Reports lists 10 models of coffeemakers that did well in its tests (but were below "excellent.") (Full names and models shown, but not full descriptions.)

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