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The Discount Consumer Club, a membership-based deal site, is under fire by the advertising industry's self-regulatory body for aggressively touting offers of "sale," "up to 50% off," and "lower rates" on its hotel booking service Getaroom.com, while making it difficult for consumers to assess the...

America is in a group-buying frenzy. The rapidly growing craze sparked by website Groupon has spawned hundreds of clones and threatens to overwhelm people's e-mail boxes with Daily Deals. But businesses that use them risk resetting their customers' ideas of what a fair price is.

If you're feeling like a character in a Southwest Airlines commercial -- that is, you "wanna get away" -- take heart: Travel expenses will drop this month and stay low into early 2010. It won't stay that way for long, though. By the end of 2010, it'll cost more to fly to your destination -- but on...