You’ve been warned! Don’t fall for these scams this summer
It happened to Shirley Kroot on a recent visit to Paris: the classic summer vacation scam.
Commentary
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.
EU’s new rental car rules could be signpost for US
If you rent a car in Europe this summer, you might notice a few changes. Pay attention to them. They could be coming to America soon.
Leave this at home when you go shopping (or you’ll regret it)
What should you leave at home when you go shopping this summer? Jennifer Boaro prefers this strategy: Put your credit cards into a cup of water. Then store it in the freezer.
What to drive this summer
It isn’t too soon to think about what you’ll be driving this summer. For Alan Monaco, that’s an easy decision: He and his wife, Stephanie, will take their GMC Yukon Denali to the Jersey Shore.
Whose armrest is it, anyway? The unspoken etiquette of airline seats
Jacy Reese was just being polite when he offered to switch airline seats with a mother and her young son on a recent flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Toronto. But as the old saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.
Take this shopping: Proven strategies for spending less during sale season
Cindy Mesaros has the perfect antidote to compulsive shopping.
How to make United Airlines keep its promises
You could almost hear a collective groan from the traveling public last week when United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz promised a congressional hearing that his airline would “do better” in the wake of the David Dao dragging incident.
Better than what, exactly?
How to travel light — really light
It’s one thing to preach about the virtues of traveling light. It’s quite another to practice them.
What all the recent United Airlines headlines may mean for travelers
Now that the dust has almost settled from United Airlines’ infamous passenger-expulsion incident, travelers are left with several important and largely unanswered questions about how this kerfuffle will change air travel — if it does at all.
Donald Trump is making American consumers great again. Here’s how
Donald Trump is good for consumers. And not necessarily in the way you’d think. Undoubtedly without meaning to, the new president has created a class of consumers that will be more enlightened and harder than ever to rip off. If you’re reading this, you may be among them.