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      The Ultimate Consumerist Guide To Fighting Back

      By Ben Popken, 4:19 PM on Mon Oct 8 2007, 45,790 views

      barchestfist.jpgIf you have a legitimate grievance with a company that they're not helping you solve, here are 15 hand-picked articles of ours that will be your blueprint to kicking ass. They're arranged in 3 escalating tiers, depending on how far you want-to/have-to take it. If you're ready to stop getting mad and start getting results, check out the posts inside...



      THE NICE ROUTE
      How To Complain
      How To Write A Complaint Letter (Remember that if you can find the appropriate bodies that oversee the company's industry, CCing your complaint letter to them can help)
      How To Record Customer Service Calls
      How To Never Get In Trouble For Recording Customer Service Calls
      How To Escalate To The Most Powerful Levels Of Customer Service

      THE HARDBALL ROUTE
      The Underlying Principle For Forcing An Uncaring And Adversarial Company Fix Your Problem
      How To Launch An Executive Email Carpet Bomb
      Unlawfully Billed? Threaten To Report Them For Mail Fraud
      How To Fax A Company To Death That's Ignoring You
      How To Get Your Problem Solved By Posting It To A Company's Stock Forums
      How To Start An Online Campaign Against A Company To Shame Them Into Fixing Your Problem
      How To Get Unscrewed By Threatening To Stand Outside The Store Passing Out Flyers About Your Experience
      (several of these are based on material from Ron Burley's excellent book, "Unscrewed: The Consumer's Guide To Fighting Back," which everyone should read.)


      THE LEGAL ROUTE
      How To Take A Case To Small Claims Court
      How To Win A Case In Small Claims Court Against A Big Company By Delivering Your Small Claims Court Papers To Their Mall Kiosk
      How To Find A Lawyer

      (Photo: Getty)

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