Sentences with phrase «ripping off consumers»

So I ask you which is better - companies ripping off consumers or consumers ripping off companies.

This company isn't just ripping off consumers, it is costing your bank and other credit card issuers big money.

The PSC, as well as Gov. Andrew Cuomo, argue the energy sales outfits, also known as ESCOs, are ripping off consumers.

He says Labour stopped the firms ripping off consumers.

«The beauty and advertising industries need to stop ripping off consumers with dishonest images.»

People of a certain disposition will put it down to oil companies ripping off consumers, but we're not yet at that point.

This is key, but the demand for quality servicing can not be an excuse to rip off consumers.

An image from jilaweimaranerpuppies.com, named in a Better Business Bureau report detailing how websites purporting to sell puppies have ripped off consumers

An image from jilaweimaranerpuppies.com, named in a Better Business Bureau report detailing how websites purporting to sell puppies have ripped off consumers (jilaweimaranerpuppies.com)

There's the usual arguments about how this is ripping off the consumer or saying that it's necessary to keep costs down so Nintendo can make a profit off the system, but Nintendo are now saying its nothing to worry about at all.

There's a difference between trying to rip off consumers by putting up signs for $ 100 and then trying to charge $ 110, and having a $ 99.99 item with an incorrect sign for $ 9.99.

Georgia used to be like Texas where any yahoo could claim to be a Contractor and rip off consumers with their slick marketing and shoddy work.

we are lookng for a way to rip off consumers, with smoke and mirrors, and getting involved in a business we have no background in.

Not exact matches

«Consumers should not be ripped off for surfing the net abroad.

This stands in contrast to some of the German luxury makers, which have been accused of ripping off and overcharging consumers.

«Mick Mulvaney is letting predatory payday lenders off the hook while they rip off American consumers,» Diane Standaert, executive vice president for the consumer watchdog group, said in a statement.

Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott, who has made a name for himself by helping people to avoid getting ripped off by airlines, hotels, and other travel companies, says that travelers who behave this way aren't merely unethical, they're thieves.

«Western Union owes a responsibility to American consumers to guard against fraud, but instead the company looked the other way, and its system facilitated scammers and rip - offs.»

The end of «rip - off» extra payments forced on customers using debit or credit cards has been praised - but will consumers pay more?

It is also inaccurate to think of market exchange as a case of one party (such as an employer or seller) ripping off another (a worker or consumer).

Promoters and representatives from venues and events gave evidence to the committee that touting «marginalises fans, rips - off consumers and damages every sector in the industry».

When Labour wins there will be a reckoning for those who thought they could get away with asset stripping our industry, crashing our economy through their greed and ripping off workers and consumers.

Long - suffering downstate residents who have been ripped off by ConEd for about 6 decades are paying for this!!!! And why is there even a Public Service Commission if it lacks the ability to stop the waste of money that consumers pay on energy bills?

I want an AG as tough on consumer rip offs as Spitzer and Cuomo so I need to do a lot more research on those candidates.

Consumers deserve a fair deal, not to be ripped off or conned by the bogus sellers that give legitimate business a bad name.»

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

That gives the everyday consumer about an 85 % chance of getting ripped off!

We don't want anyone to get ripped off so we're creating a secondary warning as a red flag alert for every consumer to stay as far away as you can from -LSB-...]

Nashville, TN About Blog The Employment & Consumer Law Group represents consumers who have been ripped off and employees with legal claims against an employer.

When the consumer finally wakes up to the fact that he / she has been ripped off by a badge conscious bill of goods... thats when.

James Larue of the Douglas County Library system recently said «libraries and taxpayers who support libraries are being ripped off in ways that not only outrageously inflate the payment to publishers (surely their costs are not three times greater to provide the book to us than to the consumer), they also greatly reward distributors.

Other than the fact that the listings on the retailers» websites are unprofessional, often containing no other information and no book cover image, there shouldn't be any detrimental affects except that consumers have been ripped off.

Look at the record industry, Hollywood and publishing; they all have a history of ripping off talent and inflating prices to consumers.

By dropping prices, Amazon is giving consumers the impression that it was ripping them off with an overpriced product in the early days of its introduction.

Consumers felt they were being ripped off, and turned to pirating songs instead of buying them.

In 1990, for example, the Consumer Federation of America called credit life insurance the «nation's worst insurance rip - off.»

In taking action against two student debt relief companies last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offered these warning signs that a student loan debt relief company «may be trying to rip you off:»

CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST NATIONWIDE STUDENT FINANCIAL AID SCAM Operation Ripped Off Students and Families Applying for College Financial Aid

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced it is taking action to halt a nationwide student financial aid scam that allegedly ripped off tens of thousands of students and families across the country by illegally charging millions of dollars in fees for sham financial services.

Back ten - years ago consumers were ripped off by scandalous debt settlement companies on a regular basis, now the Federal Trade Commission stepped in and started regulating these programs.

Big business and companies wanting consumers to have less power in the financial world are not excited about the CFPB that has been fighting hard to protect consumers from scams and schemes to rip them off.

Wanting to make the CFPB go away from defending consumers does not make the underlying problems go away or increase the defense of people just like you when you get scammed and ripped off.

Debt consolidation and debt settlement companies are legitimate, but there are still rip - off companies that take advantage of consumers.

Tip - offs to Rip - offs Steer clear of debt negotiation companies that: 1) guarantee they can remove your unsecured debt 3) promise that unsecured debts can be paid off with pennies on the dollar 4) require substantial monthly service fees 5) demand payment of a percentage of savings 6) tell you to stop making payments to or communicating with your creditors 7) require you to make monthly payments to them, rather than with your creditor 8) claim that creditors never sue consumers for non-payment of unsecured debt 9) promise that using their system will have no negative impact on your credit report 10) claim that they can remove accurate negative information from your credit report.

New regulations governing debt settlement and other debt help services are now in effect as the result of consumers complaining about being ripped off by scams that require up - front payment and offer little or no debt help.

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With credit card companies and student loan servicers charging such high - interest rates and fees, debt relief solutions can rescue consumers from being taken advantage of and ripped off by the banks.

Too often, that simply results in a situation that is a rip - off for the consumer.

Our esteemed financial institutions are in the news once more, not for bugging the government for more handouts, but for waking the ire of many credit card consumers who feel they're being ripped off by unfair practices by their banks.

Retail Rip - off Number 2 — The Delay Tactic Some retailers that sell higher priced items or items that you can negotiate the price on will tell the consumer that they are going to check paperwork or run a price by their manager so that they can leave the consumer to stew in silence alone for long periods of time.