consumer affairs
Alcohol abuse! Customer and UES liquor store battle over 'rancid' tequila
Dilip Patel, a store manager, said in an interview that Michael Rosen was nasty, cursed at work༺ers and besides, there was no way the tequila could have gone bad.
𝕴 Dating site owner to repay $1M to customers
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The company that owns Christian Mingle, Jdate and other online dating sites will pay a $500ౠ,000 fine and nearly $1 million in restitution to customers whose... ꧟
State Assembly plans to tackle shady lawsuit loan industry 🍰
The chair of the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee is promising to tackle abuses in the shady lawsuꦫit loan industry 𒆙after The Post revealed lenders are charging customers sky-high interest rates....
De Blasio moves cons🌳umer affairs commish to film office
Mayor de Blasio shuffled his administration on Tuesday, announcing that Consumer Affa♌🍎irs Commissioner Julie Menin is becoming head of the city’s film office. Menin, who has headed the consumer agency...
🅺 City to probe secondhand gun sales
The city’s Department 💜of Consumer Affairs announced Thursday that it’s launching an investigat♒ion into the illegal, secondhand sale of handguns. The agency subpoenaed ARMSLIST, a Web site that features classified...
Remington to replace triggers on some🍨 rifles
ST. LOUIS — The gun manufacturer Remington Arms Co. will replace trigger mechanisms on Model 700 bolt-action hunting rifles, or provide some compens𒈔ation to buyers, as part of a settlement...
⭕ Feds grill Dr. Oz over mislea💎ding weight loss claims
WASHINGTON — Under pressure from Congress, celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz on Tuesday offered to help "drain the swamp" of u🐷nscrupulous marketers using his name to peddle so-called miracle pills and...
10 things your landlord won’t te🀅ll you ꧋
Here are 10 things renter﷽s should know as they l🧸ook for a rental property, negotiate the lease and more. 1. Your real landlord might be Wall Street The bursting of...
How to get🥂 paid for irritating flight delays
Last summer, Mar𒁃k Wilson 🌠waited in a Rome airline terminal for a connecting flight to London on his way home to New York. And waited. And waited. By the time...
Operators of Jerk.com lived up to 𒊎its name: FTC 🦋
The Federal Trade Commission says the operators of a website called Jerk.com 𒊎are the ones behaving badly. The commission said Monday the website harvested personal information from Facebook to create...
Retailers predict a very green St. Patrick's Day
As anyone who claims Irish heritage (in other words, everybody) knows, Monday is St. Patrick’s Day. And in the last days of a truly tough winter, retailers are lookiꩵng for...
🌃 The future of NYC cable rates🐭 is up in the air
Comcast🧸’s proposed $45 billion acquisiti🐎on of Time Warner Cable — a match of cable behemoths — looms as one of the most controversial deals in recent memory. And the most...
5 things consumers need to watch🀅 in TWC-Comcast deal
Comca🌺st’s blockbuster $45 bꦺillion deal for Time Warner Cable — the Manhattan cable company everyone likes to kvetch about — has tongues wagging from the East Village to East Los...
Balಌance transfers gain new footing
It’s holiday-shopping hangover ൲season, and balance-transfer credit card offers are back — in a b𝄹ig way. But consumers may be newly wary of all credit cards in the wake of...
𒅌 FTC gives the s💝kinny on weight-loss promises
January is diet time, and federal regulators want to make sure Americ꧑ans get the inside skinny on phony weight-loss promises. The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday took action against four...
Cheerios to go GMO-free
General Mills says some Cheerios made without genetica🔴lly modified ingre🤪dients will start appearing on shelves soon. The Minneapolis-based company said Thursday that it has been manufacturing its original-flavor Cheerios without...
Yahoo! restores small business websites -- including Santa's
Looks like Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer may make Santa’s♛ “nice” list after all. After angering scores of small-business customers by shutting down their websites and corresponding emails over Thanksgiving weekend,...
Yahoo! shuts down Santa's website
If there’s one person you don’t want to mess with this time of year — it’s Santa. But that is exa🍸ctly what Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has done. Among the...
FreshDirect charges more in richer area♔s
There’s something ⛄rotten about FreshDirect’s prices. New York’s food-delivery giant charges residents of wealthy Manhattan neighborhoods more for products than it does to th𓂃ose in areas of Brooklyn and New...
Most credit card holders don't know they can save up to $500
Consumers are not aware of 🉐all their credit card benefits, experts say. 𒐪Many credit-card issuers, including Discover, Citi and MasterCard, offer consumers price-matching, in which they refund the difference in price...