Week of December 11, 2023
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Consumer World Original
Verizon has been flooding the airwaves with a remarkable offer: Trade in any iPhone, and get some $1900 worth of tech gear free. The unreadable fine print, however, tells a different story.
That is our Mouse Print* story this week.
Sellers want you to buy, buy, buy and they use a variety of tricks to get you to think you are getting a better deal than you really are. Here, from Consumers' Checkbook, are 30 tricks of the trade to watch out for.
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'Tis the time of year that many service people might expect a holiday tip from you. Here are some rules of thumb of how much to tip specific categories of people. Here too is a survey of people's plans this year of whether they will tip more or less than previously.
Consumer Alert
[Ignore ad at start.] A California man was arrested last week in the midst of a repackaging scam involving some $3-million of Target gift cards. He would snatch the code number from inside the card packages, then reseal them and put them back on the shelf for an innocent shopper to buy. See how the scheme worked.
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