Free 24 Hour Access to Consumer Reports
Well, it’s not quite 24 hours worth of access by now, but now through 3am on July 6th you can get free access to ConsumerReports.org. So if you’ve had your eye on a new TV or refrigerator, log in and check out their ratings.
I’m typing this with one hand on a cell phone dating back to the Reagan Administration. If this post comes through with properly working links and no errors, then I’ve hit my yearly quota for miracles.
I tried this. Disappointed that they won’t give any ratings or reccomendations unless you pay to subscribe
My library provides access to Consumer Reports if you access them via the library’s website. You might want to email or call your area librarian and ask if they purchased the same rights. If they have, you can view these for free from home with your library card number.
Who cares about these money-making “consumer advocates?” We do not need to pay these jokers. The same info is available online through hundreds of sources. Once they went to pay-as-you-go, I went. Very happily divorced.
Thx Goob. I subscribe to the print version, but it’s very handy to be able to search their online archives.
They are a non-profit and thus *must* be “money-making” in order to fund their laboratories, payroll, and to obtain the products they test (to ensure they are testing the same products consumers can obtain, they purchase all products — from blankets to SUVs — though normal retail channels). To further ensure independent, unbiased reporting, they accept no advertising and do not permit their reviews and ratings to be used commercially.
In addition, they have been, through their lobbying arm, in the forefront of legislation to benefit consumers.
And yes, there are many sites where one can obtain product information and read reviews. There are *not* many where the data are obtained by scientists and expert investigators in state-of-the-art laboratories and where consumer feedback is professionally collected and compiled for usability and statistical relevance.
I’m not just a Consumer Reports subscriber, I’m a Consumers Union donor (albeit a minor one
. I have no other connection with CU. I hope some of you will support this wonderful organization.
#2 Laura: Thx for the tip! I’ll contact my librarian.