The Savvy Consumer:
Avoid Non-Sense, Scams and Ripoffs That Cost You Time and MoneyYou have the right Not to remain silent with the given Right to fight back!
Learn how to spar with car salesmen and avoid paying crooked mechanics. Savvy as you want to be; keep movers from holding your belongings hostage, the rule book is on your side that makes debt collectors go away. You’ll learn how to make telemarketers stop calling and junk mail stop coming. Want to find unclaimed money in your family’s name? Bid for exotic bargains at a government auction? The Savvy Consumer shows you how to snag the deals and sidestep the deceptions.
The name is Elisabeth Leamy, she gets to the point; hundreds of consumer calls on her tip line at the Washington DC affiliate of Fox News. Consumers call in after losing hundreds or thousands of dollars to car dealers, mechanics, contractors, movers—you name it!
As an investigative reporter Elisabeth has delved into all the scams and now puts what she has learned into this invaluable resource. The Savvy Consumer shows readers how to spar with car salesmen, how to avoid paying crooked mechanics, and ways to bargain down closing costs when you buy a house. Elisabeth explains how to keep a mover from holding your belongings hostage and what your rights are if you’re a renter.
She reveals the single step that makes collection agents go away and easy ways you can instantly improve your credit score. Want to find unclaimed money? Bid for bargains at a government auction? Want to make telemarketers stop calling and junk mail stop coming? What are the most common scams and how can you avoid them? It’s all in The Savvy Consumer, along with more than a hundred other topics.
Elisabeth educates readers by sharing anecdotes about real consumers and their struggles. She explains the signs to look out for, the questions to ask, how to do your homework, and where to complain. There are hundreds of books about making money. This book is about keeping your hard-earned cash.
"Eli"explains how To SAVE BIG, you don't want to miss this!
Now it's time to make money-saving moves that actually matter. Elisabeth believes people are looking in the wrong places --like the bottoms of their latte cups-- in their search for savings. To SAVE BIG we need to focus where we spend big, namely on Houses, Cars, Credit, Groceries and Healthcare. SAVE BIG shows you quick, easy ways to save tens of thousands of dollars in these key areas.
Elisabeth "Eli" Leamy is the Consumer Correspondent for ABC News' "Good Morning America"
Leamy also contributes consumer stories to World News and other ABC programs. Elisabeth has been nominated three times for Business and Financial Reporting Emmys for stories on the internet underworld of identity theft and also the going out business and gold buying investigations. Regionally, she has received 13 Emmy Awards and four Edward R. Murrow Awards. Eli loves her beat because it's not theoretical.—
Her stories matter to people and their pocketbooks.
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