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Bess Myerson was appointed by Mayor John Lindsay as the first commissioner of the Department for Consumer Affairs in 1969. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2019, the agency changed its name to the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, expanding its role to protect workplace safety, paid sick leave laws, and freelancer protection.
Consumers' Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services (doing business as Consumers’ CHECKBOOK) is an independent, nonprofit consumer organization. It was founded in 1974 [1] in order to provide survey information to consumers about vendors and service providers. There are both print and online publications in the Boston, Chicago, Delaware ...
The New York State Consumer Protection Board (CPB) is a former government agency of the State of New York that was responsible for protecting, educating and representing consumers. On March 31, 2011, Part A of Chapter 62 of the Laws of 2011 merged the CPB into the New York State Department of State (NYSDOS) creating a new Division of Consumer ...
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In August 2012, The New York Times revealed that John Locke had paid an online service to write reviews of his books, in order to artificially boost sales. [ 12 ] In 2022, researchers from UCLA documented that millions of Amazon sellers purchase fake 5-star reviews through private Facebook groups.
Two Cyprus-based tech support companies have agreed to pay $26 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they tricked consumers into paying for unnecessary computer repair services.
The company was responsible for publishing Consumers’ Research Bulletin (previously named Consumer Club Commodity List). The subscriber count in 1933 was reported to be over 42,000. It was in this year, that Consumer Research moved its operations to New York City. Following this move, employees began to unionize, citing unfair pay.
In January, New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) — a leading producer of multifamily loans on non-luxury, rent-regulated apartment buildings in New York City — reported a surprise loss of $252 ...