consumercomplaints

If you're having a problem with a company, ask WalletPop to help. Click here: Help me Walletpop!.A reader wrote in about an odd problem with a blow dryer purchased on Amazon.com. In her quest to find the serial number to register the warranty she realized there wasn't one to be found -- hence...

Tech blog Gizmodo posted a photo and blurb claiming the Pole Dance Doll is a real product, albeit one made in Asia for sale at off-price retailers. And while bloggers, parents and child development experts everywhere are aghast, I have to wonder why.Isn't this, after all, the logical extension of...

The idea of using sunscreen has been drilled in to our heads for so many years, it's hardly an option to skip using it when heading out to the beach or going to a pool for the day.But does keeping you and your children and your children safe from the sun have to mean being sorry that swimsuits and...

Since I started shopping at and writing about dollar stores more than four years ago, I've heard many complaints about dollar store merchandise. Some of the criticism may be deserved but mostly, it's simply the old prejudice that anything that can be sold for a buck must not be worth the...

Consumers have more to complain about, but the agencies they are complaining to have fewer resources with which to help them, a national survey found. A lot of problems people are having, the survey said, were directly related to the country's sour economy."It's ironic that at the same time that...

California filed a $222 million lawsuit against the owner of 22 Midas Muffler shops after uncover agents discovered a "massive" scheme in which consumers were charged for unneeded repairs, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced."These Midas shops were running a massive...

If you care enough to check out a company before you do business, there are a couple of places to turn to get a flavor of whether the consumer experience is one to be avoided. You could look at the somewhat sterile but informative numbers that appear on the Better Business Bureau site. Or...

If it isn't enough that just about every bottle of apple juice on the store shelves is derived from a powdery concentrate shipped in 55-gallon drums from China, have a look at where the liquid inside all those variety of flavors of juice boxes come from. If you actually care where what your kids...

A German mathematician who died 450 years ago was sent a letter demanding he pay long-overdue TV license fees, according to a Reuters story. The bill from Germany's GEZ broadcast fee collection office went to the last home address of Adam Ries, an algebra expert who bought the house in 1525. A club...

Quiznos execs spent the weekend reading the complaints about its Million Subs promotion stack up here on WalletPop. Today, its Chief Marketing Officer, Rebecca Steinfort, contacted us to explain what went so wrong.The crux of the issue, from her standpoint, is that Quiznos is trying to turn itself...