How successful were your holiday gifts from a consumer point of view?
ConsumerAffairs.com offers this list of troubling consumer goods and services based on a review of the thousands of consumer complaints it received about holiday gift giving:
- Pyrex items that exploded.
- American Express gift cards that didn’t work or weren’t received.
- Target’s restrictive return policies.
- Toys ‘R’ Us’ restrictive return policies.
- 1800Flowers orders that weren’t delivered.
- Xboxes that didn’t work for long.
- Federal Express late or lost shipments.
- UPS late or lost shipments.
- US Postal Service late or lost shipments and low-quality customer service.
For details, see the article “How the Grinches Stole Christmas … Again.”
