Elliott Advocacy is a nonprofit organization that mediates cases between consumers and businesses. These are commentary articles that detail our efforts and provide educational information for consumers.
As a 6-year-old, Josh Lippiner’s daughter, Emma, played hide-and-seek to win. So one day, when she vanished for more than a few minutes, her parents panicked.
“My wife and I couldn’t find her,” Lippiner remembers. “We completely freaked out.”
When Karen Korr wanted to change part of her European itinerary, she didn’t call Travelocity, her online travel agency. She didn’t send an email or a text message, either.
Instead, Korr, who works for a nonprofit organization in San Diego, clicked on Travelocity’s Facebook page and sent the company an instant message. She asked whether she could make arrangements to stay in Lagos, Portugal, for a few extra days.
If you’re wondering what the T-Mobile-Sprint merger means for you, then you could just ask the two companies. They’ll promise the world, including lower prices, better coverage, faster connection speeds, and creation of a superfast 5G network.
Jim Fox dreads flying.
With good reason. At 6-feet-10, the former NBA player has to squeeze himself into economy class seats, which isn’t always possible.
On a recent Saturday afternoon, a well-known consumer advocate tried to take me for $8,000. Good thing I knew how to spot a scam.
Pull over. The highway rest stop, long the laughingstock of motorists, is getting a long-overdue makeover.
It took long enough. A recent poll by Zeno Research & Insights found that 57% of parents say they feel “stressed” on family road trips when they think about where they’ll stop.
Let’s talk about travelers who feign injury, illness and even death in order to get preferential treatment. Let’s talk about the travel fakers.
If last week’s restaurant shootings didn’t make you wonder, then the random stabbing probably did: Is your restaurant safe?
Probably not as safe as you think.
Dejuan Rasberry-Davis wants me to wave my magic wand and tell Cricket to take his phone off the blacklist.
