Consumer Help Links

GET UP, STAND UP! STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!

Here is how to let your California State Representative know you value protections for consumers, not handouts for the car industry and banking lobbyists!

Follow this link, and enter your zipcode. That will give you the name and phone number for your state Senator and Assembly Representative. www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html

Consumer Info and Advocacy

FoolProof: Consumer Advice and Education  Videos: http://www.foolproofme.com

Consumers Union: Consumer Reports Webwatch  Consumer Reports is the consumer’s best friend
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/

Housing Opportunities Collaborative — Fair housing and foreclosure information
www.HousingCollaborative.org

Center for Auto Safety  Help and advocacy regarding car safety defects
http://www.autosafety.org

National Consumer Law Center
http://www.consumerlaw.org/

Utilities Consumer Action Network (UCAN)  Consumer advocacy and information
http://www.ucan.org/

Center for Responsible Lending  Help and advocacy regarding all forms of consumer lending
http://www.responsiblelending.org/

Bud Hibb’s Consumer Justice  Advice and information about debt collectors
http://www.budhibbs.com

Center for Automobile Reliability and Safety  Advice and advocacy for California consumers
http://carconsumers.com/

Car Talk from NPR — Advice and humor about problem cars
http://www.cartalk.com
California Attorney General lemon law
https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/cars
This page has useful information about the lemon law in California and about the Attorney General’s office

US Government defect database
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
This page includes a list of all recalls, owner complaints, etc, since 1980. You can request the entire file for any case by looking up the number on this page.

Federal Consumer Law
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/ch50.html
Full text of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act