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DiscountDelight - Consumer Reports
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Manufacturer: Consumer Reports
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 13
Label: Consumer Reports
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Consumer Reports
Number Of Issues: 13
Publisher: Consumer Reports
Studio: Consumer Reports
Subscription Length: 365
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Summary: Great periodical to save money, get impartial reviews
Comment: We all need to watch the bottom line and this magazine helps. Our family had several large purchases to make and subscribed to CR. I would have chosen a car that is prone to electrical issues without this magazine. Could deal with less junk mail from CR though. A wise resource when comparing models prior to purchase. We will continue to subscribe.
Customer Rating:
Summary: good magazine
Comment: Worth you while to buy this Magazine. Saved me on a few items already.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A resource of limited value, sometimes worth reading
Comment: If you want the unbiased FACTS on the things you are considering buying, I say go with CR. It is the most venerable consumer review source with the deepest pockets and largest audience and most experience, and has scruples. It does not accept advertising in its pages, a rarity today. I refer to CR before making any major purchase and find its articles entertaining and informative and written with common sense and far-sightedness.
I do have some beefs with CR, which is a nervous Nelly Yankee publication with obnoxious eccentricities that need to be weeded out.
1. Their marketing dept. likes to mail people to death with offers for their online service, renew subscriptions, etc. etc. Give it a rest already! CR needs to quit wasting membership fees on junk mail. I have received at least 12 envelopes from CR in a year's time. And I have a 5 yr subscription already! NO excuse for that kind of wasteful misuse of funds.
2. CR just considers a limited number of brand names for items such as plasma or LCD or CRT tv's. Go to any store, you will see a dozen brands that CR has NO rating for. Inexcusable really.
3. CR's focus is totally on cars. Each issue, about 1/4th the magazine is blown on new cars costing $25,000 - $75,000. That's real sweet if you're in the upper middle class and buy new cars every few years. For those of us who prefer used cars it's just a waste of space. Why not leave the car ratings for the annual report? Why put a new car review in every cotton-pickin' issue?
4. CR says "no advertising" but in reality it spends space advertising its OWN products such as "Put CR in your Will" (a program where you leave your money to CR, obscene really) and the car-rating thing and the online service and then an annuity for seniors.
5. Open up a CR, and it's a battle fighting the postcards hooked into the paper. Being a consumer mag, they should KNOW already that consumers hate that. It's just a tacky waste of paper and an annoyance to the reader.
6. CR's lobbying wing is down on supplements and tries to get over-the-counter substances transformed into prescription-only affairs, or banned altogether. Such as the natural herbs, Kava, Ephedra, and the list goes on. All in the name of "safety". The last straw was when I read that CR was trying to clamp down on sam-e, which I purchase and consume on a regular basis. The idea that my membership fees are going to be used to force me to get a doctor's prescription and pay 10x more for the same pills, makes me think that CR will not get a "5 star" rating here, but instead a "3 star" rating. CR should reconsider their notion that Government must prohibit/limit citizen's access to substances.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not what they once were!
Comment: I WAS a faithful, appreciative CR Subscriber for over 15 years!
The mistakes they have made over the past two years have not only cost me a good deal of money and frustration, they have caused me to lose all trust in their recommedations.
CR Mistake # 1: "VONAGE COMMUNICATIONS". CR initially recommended VONAGE as an inexpensive computer telephone service.
VONAGE is cheap, (27.00 per month, unlimited long distance etc).
CR should have told me that VONAGE connections are terrible. They consistently drop calls, have voicemail problems, voice fade outs ON A DAILY BASIS.
Furthermore, VONAGE has no field technicians and always place you on hold for at least 10 minutes when you try to call and correct their problems.
CR should have checked them out before recommending them!
CR Mistake # 2. 2002 Acura RL. CR'S Automotive, "Experts" said this, $20,000.00 Luxury Car was on a par with Lexus and Mercedes.
They should have mentioned that it also gets 15 mpg's. Burns only high test and making the recommended, new, Timing and Bal Shaft Belts every 60,000 miles costs $ 800.00!
Years ago, they would have, when they were reliable!
Lately because they have provided so many other examples of either poor information, insufficient information and just plain wrong information, they are now definitely NOT the reliable consumer advocate they once were.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Consumer Reports
Comment: I love this magazine and I am very excited to be receiving it again!
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The resolute research team at Consumer Reports has broken, melted, disabled, and jacked-up almost everything that's been offered for sale in the last few decades. If you want to know, for sure, if a product lives up to its claim, Consumer Reports has the answer. In addition to providing unbiased detailed analysis of goods ranging from chainsaws to televisions to washable wool sweaters, the canny staff offers common sense advice. Consider this classic, their take on the efficacy of conditioning shampoo: Shampoo is meant to be rinsed out, any conditioner in a good shampoo will go right down the drain. --Edith Sorenson
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