ΔΙΕΘΝΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΗ ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ ΠΟΙΚΙΛΗΣ ΥΛΗΣ - ΕΔΡΑ: ΑΘΗΝΑ

Ει βούλει καλώς ακούειν, μάθε καλώς λέγειν, μαθών δε καλώς λέγειν, πειρώ καλώς πράττειν, και ούτω καρπώση το καλώς ακούειν. (Επίκτητος)

(Αν θέλεις να σε επαινούν, μάθε πρώτα να λες καλά λόγια, και αφού μάθεις να λες καλά λόγια, να κάνεις καλές πράξεις, και τότε θα ακούς καλά λόγια για εσένα).

Τετάρτη 29 Μαΐου 2024

Consumer alerts: Airline issues, shrinkflation, food poisoning, and denied warranties

Here is Kristin from PissedConsumer.com with the latest news and consumer reports from our review platform. If you are interested in a specific report or want to research any other consumer issue, please reply, I’d be happy to help.

PissedConsumer Club Enhances Consumer Advocacy

We’ve launched a new membership program, the PissedConsumer Club, designed to empower consumers with tools and expert guidance for effective complaint resolution. This new program aims to help consumers access personalized assistance, legal guidance, educational resources, and most importantly, a safe community of like-minded individuals.

You may find more information by following this link

Travel issues

Consumers share frustrating experiences at the airports and with airlines, including inadequate baggage check-in policies and overbooking that lead to missed flights:

Frontier Airlines: Deceptive practice
“...you cannot drop your bag off at Frontier prior to 2 hours before boarding. This is very important, as you still have to make your way through TSA…For the simple fact if a TSA line is long, and many of us have waited well over an hour in one of those you WILL miss your flight…” Read full review 5782394 

American Airlines: “Doesn’t care”
“Customer service wanted me to pay an additional $1600 to go out next day on British airways. It got worse from here… We ended up being bused to a fleabag hotel and had to eat the cost of our seat upgrades…” Read full review 5834692

Shrinkflation

More consumers notice that the products they used to buy have shrunk. The recent reports concern items like paper towels that are not only smaller in size, but got worse in quality.

Bounty Towels: The product has gone down
“They are so thin do not soak up liquid like they used to. I can't get over how your product gone downhill.” Read full review 5781957

Scott Products: Paper towels
“I brought the same paper towels I buy every week same packaging same cost but the product has shrunk considerably.” Read review 5772911

Issues with Food

Consumers regularly complain about the quality of food in stores and restaurants. Aside from poor customer service, they also alert risks of food poisoning.

Golden Corral: “Poisoned my whole family”
“... we all got sick all five of us… I contacted the health department and they will be going there to investigate this place.” Read full review 5816087

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen: Uncooked food
“...a very horrible experience and PRAY to GOD that my family or I get sick....Food has not been up to standards that it used to be.” Read full review 5821986

Costco: Bad chicken
“I brought a roasted chicken today... it was discussing, the whole inside was covered in some thing bright red.” Read review 5816356

More alerts

Thor RV: Refuse to repair
A consumer says the newly purchased RV had multiple issues that the manufacturer refused to fix: “Since delivery of the new 2023 $480,000.00 unit in April 2023, we have had numerous items that were caused by the manufacturers negligence or failure to review and check their installed products…”
Read the full review with a video here.

Forest River: Absolutely terrible 
Consumers complain about the quality of purchased RVs and experience a range of issues, such as: “Oven went out , shower leaks all over inside the walls , sink falling out of place they ran a vent from the black tank directly to the bedroom AC…”
Read Forest River reviews

Tesla: Doesn’t support their product
A consumer alerts with the solar roof and complains about the company not delivering on their promise: “Tesla never finished the installation, broke our chimneys, cut the siding, damaged waterproof envelope of the house and abandoned the job…”
Read full review 5820756

Bestway: Warranty claim denial
A consumer shares that a hot tub has failed within a year of purchase, and the company doesn’t respond: “…no easy way to drain the water out of the air chamber because water isnt supposed to be in the air chamber...basically its a piece of trash now…”
Read the full review 5802805

Hex Clad: Dangerously unhealthy
There are several concerns about the quality of their product: “my hexclad cookware set they became scratched and started peeling… the company is using forever chemicals ( PTFE ) in their non-stick coating which is extremely dangerous to your health…”
Read the full review 5810450

This isn’t the final list of consumer alerts. If you’re investigating a particular issue, I’d be happy to check it across reviews from our platform.

Tags: PissedConsumer.com