How Marketers Trick Kids, and Why Parents Should Worry
Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
In October 2016, a class-action lawsuit was filed against North American Power and Gas for, among other things, allegedly misleadingly offering low promotional teaser rates for electricity when, after the introductory rate expires, customers are automatically rolled into a variable rate plan with high rates regardless of fluctuations in the market price and, as a result, they routinely pay three or four times (and as much as five or six times) more for electricity. (Arcaro et al v. North American Power and Gas, LLC, Case No. 16-cv-1921, D. CT.)
For more information about other class-action lawsuits regarding energy suppliers and TINA.org’s coverage of them, click here.
Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
TINA.org pulls back the covers on this company’s Made in USA marketing.
Brand partnerships worthy of a big “doom!”
Derek Kravitz, Consumer Reports
Here were some of the worst ads TINA.org investigated this year.