Timeshare Freedom Group

CATrends: Emails Offering Free Gifts

Lawsuits target misleading subject lines.

Keystone RV Company’s Climate Guard, Polar Package

TINA.org reader Tyla S. is not a happy camper.

Taxes Shouldn’t Be This Taxing

How tax preparation services may actually make your life harder.

HelloFraud: TINA.org Files Complaint against Meal Kit Giant

False promises of “free meals” lead consumers to never-ending subscriptions.

Product Origin

Motion Picture Association of America

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is a trade association comprised of six well-known Hollywood studios – Walt Disney, Sony, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Brothers.  Like…

What to Know about Subscription Offers

Risk-free trials may lead to repeated, unwanted charges to your credit card.

Regulators Deliver Actions against HelloFresh

Regulatory activity following TINA.org’s 2022 complaint.

Good Chop: ‘Free Chicken Wings for Life’

Spoiler: the chicken wings are neither free nor do they last for life.

Consumers Getting Smoked by E-Cigs

Consumers complain to feds that various e-cig companies are fleecing them into repeated credit card charges for vapor products.

Internet Scams: Avoiding Fraud on the World Wide Web

Over 200 million people in the U.S. are now Internet users.  Many of our daily activities – reading the news, watching movies, paying bills, buying products, and even catching up…

Free Offers at FYE Stores

Allegations: Failing to adequately disclose that customers who sign up for the free trials will be automatically enrolled in monthly subscriptions

TurboTax Free

Spoiler: Filing your taxes with this product “could cost you money” and those are TurboTax’s words.

MoviePass: ‘Get a Month Free’

The movie ticket subscription service is back. Unfortunately, so too are the deceptive ads.

Visionworks BOGO Offers

The Franklin Prosperity Report

Newsmax Media, a website that claims to be a news site, sells newsletter subscriptions and is currently pitching the Franklin Prosperity Report as a way to get “Free Stuff and…

Visionworks Buy-One-Get-One-Free Offers

Kroger’s ‘Gluten Free’ Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips

The bag lies, says a website that tests food labeled “gluten free.”

Decoding Cosmetics Claims: ‘Not Tested on Animals,’ ‘Cruelty Free’

TINA.org investigates what’s behind the cruelty-free logos on the labels of cosmetic products.