ConsumerAffairs

Hertz has agreed to refund customers the fees charged for its Plate Pass road-toll service on days it wasn't used, says Florida's attorney general. The Plate Pass service bills rental car customers for road tolls (plus a usage fee) in lieu of them having to pay tolls at toll plazas. Florida...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said its tests confirmed the presence of the dangerous bacteria Listeria at a San Antonio produce plant shut down last month after it was linked to at least four deaths in Texas. The agency recently released its findings as part of an investigation into the...

If you've eaten a steak at Ruby Tuesday and wondered why it seemed smaller than you expected, you might not be imagining things. The restaurant chain's meat supplier was cited by Massachusetts officials after an inspection showed widespread short-weighting of shipments of its steaks. After a...

They call them "rebate" cards. But they're hardly a rebate. Instead, they are a mechanism to take millions of dollars due to consumers and give them back to the companies. "Rebate cards are a colossal ripoff because sellers who long ago figured out how to make rebates difficult to obtain have now...