Consumer Awareness

These resources will help reduce your risk of doing business with unscrupulous sites, and some may help recoup your losses if you've been "short-changed".

Better Business Bureau
http://www.complaints.bbb.org
BBB's goal is to successfully resolve complaints involving buyers and sellers in a fair and timely fashion. This includes complaints involving consumer-to-business and business-to-business transactions that involve the advertisement and/or sale of a product or service.

Business Reporter
http://www.businessreporter.net/category/healthcare-60-1.html
The mission of this website is to give individuals a forum to inform others about the experience they've had with a business or government entity, good or bad. If you've had a good or bad experience with a business and want the world to know about it, submit your review and if approved, we will post it on this website. It is our goal to help change bad conduct of businesses and the government through public awareness and to organize consumers to file complaints or protests to the proper authorities and to the News Media.

Center for Medical Consumers
http://www.medicalconsumers.org/index.html
The Center for Medical Consumers, a non profit 501(c) 3 advocacy organization, was founded in 1976 with ambitious goals. One was to provide access to accurate, science-based information so that consumers could participate more meaningfully in medical decisions that often have profound effects upon their health. Another was to hold medicine more accountable by revealing that much of the treatment advice proffered by doctors and other health professionals is based on little or no evidence of safety and effectiveness.

Consumer Reports WebWatch
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/consumer-center.cfm
Consumer Reports WebWatch will investigate, inform, and improve the quality of information published on the World Wide Web.

Consumer Sentinel
http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel/index.html
Consumer Sentinel is the unique investigative cyber tool that provides members of the Consumer Sentinel Network with access to millions of consumer complaints. Consumer Sentinel includes complaints about Health and Weight Loss Products

eConsumer.gov
http://www.econsumer.gov/english/index.html
Your site for cross-border ecommerce complaints. A joint project of consumer protection agencies from 21 nations.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
https://www.FTCComplaintAssistant.gov/
The FTC deals with issues that touch the economic life of every American. It is the only federal agency with both consumer protection and competition jurisdiction in broad sectors of the economy. The FTC pursues vigorous and effective law enforcement and advances consumers’ interests by sharing its expertise with federal and state legislatures and U.S. and international government agencies.

Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
http://www.ic3.gov/
IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 gives the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of suspected criminal or civil violations. For law enforcement and regulatory agencies at the federal, state, local and international level, IC3 provides a central referral mechanism for complaints involving Internet related crimes.

National Consumers League
http://www.nclnet.org/health/
Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues. We are the nation's oldest consumer organization.

National Fraud Information Center
http://www.fraud.org/
In 1996, the Internet Fraud Watch was created, enabling the National Fraud Information Center to offer consumers advice about promotions in cyberspace and route reports of suspected online and Internet fraud to the appropriate government agencies.

US Consumer Protection
http://www.uscp.org/about_us.php
US Consumer Protection (USCP) is a private organization committed to providing individuals with information on their legal rights as consumers and to offer protection from fraudulent business practices. Our staff of experts are fully trained in the field of consumer law and are available to assist consumers in settling business disputes to their satisfaction. In addition, we also provide businesses with guidance and direction on consumer law, policy and regulations and an opportunity to drive consumers to their businesses.