Consumer Affairs

Aarkstore.com announces, a new market research report is available in its vast collection: Latino Consumers: Demographic Patterns and Spending Trends among Hispanic Americans, 8th Edition http://www.aarkstore.com/reports/Latino-Consumers-Demographic-Patterns-and-Spending-Trends-among-Hispanic-Americans-8th-Edition-92265.html The 48 million Latinos in the United States now wield buying power in excess of $1 trillion and represent an increasingly important consumer segment for marketers in a...Read Full Story

An article in the Harvard Negotiation Program newsletter (summarized here ) reflects a common view that mediation and arbitration need to be "sold" more as an alternative to litigation.  In this view, it is seen as a problem that parties to business contracts often do not anticipate the likelihood of conflicts arising in the course of their relationship, and therefore fail to include as often as perhaps they should, clauses providing for alternative dispute resolution in the event of problems...Read Full Story

Bills go through congress like sand through the hourglass .  The two seem mixed together as well as the Gulf Coast and British Petroleum .  It’s no stretch of the imagination to say that lawmaking in Washington D.C. is anything but a long, slow and expensive process accessible by only society’s “elite” (and not the everymen they may like you to believe ).  But every once in a while a good bill actually makes it through to become a law and change America for the better .  Well, it seems like...Read Full Story

Tel3 has recently launched a new program to recruit agents to sell their popular Tel3Advantage prepaid long distance program in Canada. Until recently only USA residents could sell the program so this is a big change and a good opportunity for those seeking a home based buiness in Canada. Tel3Advantage can be used to make cheap domestic and international calls from any phone in the USA or Canada without changing companies or entering into a contract or long term obligation. It is one of the...Read Full Story

Consumers scored a major victory on Friday asJPMorgan Chase, the nation's largest credit card lender, announced it will drop a mandatory arbitration clause from its credit card contracts. The announcement was made with an eye toward settling a class action lawsuit targeting Chase and several other major financial institutions. The class action, filed by Berger & Montague PC of Philadelphia, also names Bank of America, Citigroup, Discover, and Capital One as defendants. The suit accuses the...Read Full Story