Posted by Ken Knecht on November 27, 2007, 8:33 am
Is there a trustworthy web site like Consumer Reports magazine that
covers less expensive items, like heaters, to help make buying decisions?
TIA
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
Posted by Shawn H. on November 27, 2007, 6:17 pm
> Is there a trustworthy web site like Consumer Reports magazine that
> covers less expensive items, like heaters, to help make buying decisions?
Why not check Consumer Reports' web site? They review a wide range of
products, including less expensive items such as space heaters.
Posted by me on November 27, 2007, 7:03 pm
>Why not check Consumer Reports' web site?
Speaking of which..... does anyone have a subscription
to the CR web site and think it worth it?
Posted by John Weiss on November 27, 2007, 7:44 pm
> >Why not check Consumer Reports' web site?
> Speaking of which..... does anyone have a subscription
> to the CR web site and think it worth it?
Had one; dropped it. It wasn't worth the $$ they charged for piss-poor tech
support and a Microsoft-dependent site. To add even more insult, they continued
the "auto-renewal" on my credit card even after I cancelled!
CR is getting to be too much like some of the "bad" companies they report on!
Posted by Logan Shaw on November 27, 2007, 10:48 pm
John Weiss wrote:
>>> Why not check Consumer Reports' web site?
>> Speaking of which..... does anyone have a subscription
>> to the CR web site and think it worth it?
>
> Had one; dropped it. It wasn't worth the $$ they charged for piss-poor tech
> support and a Microsoft-dependent site. To add even more insult, they
continued
> the "auto-renewal" on my credit card even after I cancelled!
I had a similar mildly bad experience with Consumer Reports. They stated that
they auto-renewed the subscription, so I avoided that by using a "virtual
account number" generated by on my credit card's web site. The virtual account
numbers always expire the month following when they're created, so they're
great for anything that tries to auto-renew: by the time they try to run
the charge for auto-renewal, the number is expired, the charge won't go
through, and they conveniently cancel the service for you. :-)
Anyway, I didn't get stuck with an auto-renewal for that reason, but I did
waste money. I had bought their new car buying guide (which, by the way, was
really helpful), and they had incomplete information about a first model year
car I was interested in. They had plastered all over the book that I could
get updated information by subscribing to their web site, so I spent $30 or
whatever to do so, only to find that though it had been 6+ months since they
published the book, the web site's info hadn't been updated in that time.
So much for updated information. I basically spent $30 for nothing, based
on the silly idea that their web site would be updated more than once a year.
- Logan
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> covers less expensive items, like heaters, to help make buying decisions?