Home on the Web

By Richard Borreca
Star-Bulletin

Friday, November 1, 1996


Let your keyboard
do the walking

You want to buy and not get burned, so before you shop, stop by Consumer World http://www.consumerworld.org .

Whether you are looking for caviar or cars at wholesale prices or how to complain when the car's a lemon and the fish eggs are broken, you will probably find it at this megasite.

Consumer World crammed together more than 1,200 of the most useful consumer resources on the Internet.

They claim you can check an airfare, find an automated teller machine anywhere in the world, file a consumer complaint, find a low-rate credit card or mortgage, research a law, look up the wholesale price of a car, locate a Better Business Bureau, find a toll-free number, "listen" to the latest news, contact a company's customer service department, comparison shop for bargains and last-minute travel, check stock quotes or certificate of deposit rates, read a movie review or see a preview.

After you are through researching, this site will lead you off on enough shopping expeditions that you may want to check your credit card before entering.



"Home on the Web" is a weekly Friday feature of the Star-Bulletin.
Richard Borreca can be reached by e-mail at rborreca@pixi.com



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