Gloucester
City Library

Consumer Information
- AnnualCreditReport.com
- the official site for getting your free annual credit report
- Bank
Rate Monitor - interest rates, payment calculators, numerous
articles
- Better
Business Bureau of New Jersey
- Call
For Action at 6ABC
- CASPIAN
- consumer privacy issues
- Consumer Reports - articles available
online through EbscoHost, and paper copies are at the library.
If you use EbscoHost from a computer outside the library, you will
need to enter your library card number. Choose the MasterFile Premier
database and use the Advanced Search option. Type Consumer Reports in
a search box for Journal Name.
- Consumers
Checkbook - nonprofit that gathers ratings on local businesses and
professional services. The library now has a subscription to their
print publications; ask at the Circulation Desk.
- Cosmetics
Cop - with Paula Begoun
- Costhelper.com
- check what you should pay for many products and services
- Credit
Source - how to stop credit card offers
- Derek's
Web Shopping & Price Comparison Sites Guide
- Dial
A Human - how to get out of annoying automated phone systems and
reach a live human being
- Direct Marketing Association
- how to get off mailing lists
- Domania.com
- request free reports on home sale prices in your area
- Epinions.com
- read product reviews by consumers like you
- FCIC
- Consumer Information from Pueblo, Colorado, now online
- FDIC
Failed Banks List
- Get
Human - similar to Dial A Human, how to get to a live person from within an automated phone
system
- Google
Product Search (formerly Froogle)
- How
long to keep important papers, from Good Housekeeping
- J. D.
Power product and service ratings
- Know
Your Stuff - download free home inventory software from the
Insurance Information Institute
- MyMoney.gov
- financial tips compiled from 20 federal government agencies
- NBC10
Investigators - Harry Hairston and Lu Ann Cahn help solve your problems
- New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
- New
Jersey Consumer Law
- New
Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance - including unclaimed
property search
- New Jersey Division of
Consumer Affairs - free credit reports, Do Not Call list, and
more
- New
Jersey Prescription Drug Price Registry - compare prices on 150
most common medications
- NextAdvisor
- reviews and ratings of online services, including those for credit
monitoring and protecting yourself from identify theft
- OnGuardOnline
- computer safety tips from the federal government
- Retrevo
- links to product manuals
- Wise
Giving Alliance - charity reports
- Wize.com -
compilation of product reviews from all over the net
Updated 10/5/2011
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