Contents: Part I -- Be A Savvy Consumer: Buyer Beware; Banking; Cars; Credit; Financing Your Education; Employment; Food and Nutrition; Health Care; Housing; Insurance; Internet; Investing; Phones; Privacy Protection and Identity Theft; Smart Home Shopping; Telemarketing and Unwanted Mail; Travel; TV; Wills and Funerals; Part II -- Filing a Complaint: Contact the Seller; Contact Third Parties; Sample Complaint Letter: Dispute Resolution Programs; Small Claims Court; Legal Help and Information; Report Fraud and Safety Hazard; Part III -- Key Information Resources: For Teachers; For Persons with Disabilities; For Military Personnel; Part IV -- Consumer Assistance Directory. Illus.

Use this guide to get help with consumer purchases, problems and complaints. Find consumer contacts at hundreds of companies and trade associations; local, state, and federal government agencies; national consumer organizations; and more.

Contents: (Part 1) Be a Savvy Consumer: Buyer Beware; Cars; Banking; Credit; Loans; Financing Your Educ.; Employ.; Food and Nutrition; Health Care; Housing; Insur.: Internet; Investing; Phones; Identity Theft; Home Shopping; Telemark. and Mail; Travel; TV; Utilities; Wills and Funerals; (Part 2) Complaint Filing: Contact the Seller; Contact 3rd Parties; Sample Complaint Letter; (Part 3) Info. Resources: Teachers; Persons with Disabil.; Mil. Personnel; (Part 4) Consumer Assist. Directory: Auto. Mfrs.; Better Bus. Bureaus; Corp. Contacts; SOCAP Internat.; Fed. Agencies; Nat. Consumer Org.; State, County and City Consumer Protection Offices; State Banking Auth.; State Insur. Reg.; State Securities Admin.; State Util. Comm.; Trade and Prof. Assoc.

Use this guide to help with consumer purchases, problems and complaints. Find consumer contacts at hundreds of companies and trade associations; local, state, and federal government agencies; national consumer organizations; and more.

In the last two years, consumers have experienced massive changes in consumption – whether due to shifts in habits; the changing information landscape; challenges to their identity, or new economic experiences of scarcity or abundance. What can we expect from these experiences? How are the world's leading thinkers applying both foundational knowledge and novel insights as we seek to understand consumer psychology in a constantly changing landscape? And how can informed readers both contribute to and evaluate our knowledge? This handbook offers a critical overview of both fundamental topics in consumer psychology and those that are of prominence in the contemporary marketplace, beginning with an examination of individual psychology and broadening to topics related to wider cultural and marketplace systems. The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology, 2nd edition, will act as a valuable guide for teachers and graduate and undergraduate students in psychology, marketing, management, economics, sociology, and anthropology.

The Federal Consumer Information Center of the United States General Services Administration presents the full text of the "2001 Consumer Action Handbook." The handbook covers such areas as car repair and buying, money and credit, health care, shopping from home, identity theft, travel tips, and consumer assistance contacts.