Christopher Elliott
This CRI Genetics report seems odd. How about a refund?
It might be easy to dismiss Martha Labell’s refund request for her CRI Genetics report as a one-off — a client unhappy with the results of her DNA test. But there’s more — much more — to this case.
Tell Cricket to take my phone off the blacklist!
Dejuan Rasberry-Davis wants me to wave my magic wand and tell Cricket to take his phone off the blacklist.
A $2,500 MasterCard billing error! Is the cardholder out of luck?
While on a tour of the Arab market in Jerusalem, Jonathan Rosen pays for lunch using his MasterCard. But instead of a charge for about $20, he gets a bill for $2,500. Why won’t his credit card issuer reverse the charges?
Compensation for a missed WOW connection? Of course not!
When Muna Rouk contacted me about a missed WOW connection on a trip from Baltimore to Frankfurt, I thought she might have a shot at some compensation.
How to buy clothes without getting ripped off
When you get clothes, it can be easy to get ripped off too.
Fed-up consumers seek reckoning with travel industry
Ask any frequent traveler if the travel industry is fair. You’ll likely hear a litany of complaints: Travel companies routinely charge you for services they don’t have to deliver, punish you with onerous restrictions and flout the time-honored rules of American business. And now, travelers are pushing back.
This old airline price trick is about to make a surprise return
Domestic carriers could get a legal right to profit by lying about ticket prices by using legal trickery. Thanks to proposed legislation with that legal trickery, the option is on the table and may find its way into law.
We lived on the road for a year. Here’s how we did it.
Most Americans are lucky to get a week of vacation, but what if you lived on the road for an entire year?