Consumer Safety Resources from the Government on SPAM, Scams, Fraud, Phishing and Identity Theft
A list of government websites and resources for identifying and reporting fraud, identity theft, SPAM, email scams and more.
March 1st-7th is National Consumer Protection Week!
Learn how to protect yourself from scams, frauds and identity theft, repair your credit history, save money in the current economy and more.
Pecuniarities News: Top 100 Finance Blogs, MSN Smart Spending, FrugalFocus and Consumer Safety
It has been a good week for us here at Pecuniarities and I am really excited about some new changes. Here they be (yes, I have been watching Pirates of the Caribbean – the first one – one of Madoline’s and my favorite movies.)
Welcome MSN Smart Spending Readers
While checking my web stats last night [...]
Why I Will Not Change My Mindset, Plus the Difference Between Justifying and Being Optimistic About Spending
The difference between justification and optimism in spending money, the importance of fostering an awareness of indirect costs, and how taking a “free” offer when you don’t need it doesn’t make you smart.
It Saves to Be Nice Part 4: How to Save Money by Helping Businesses Keep Operating Costs Down
Being considerate of businesses’ operating costs can potentially save you money.
It Saves to Be Nice Part 3: How Being Nice Pays Off
Favors for Nice Customers
Here are some examples of our experience in dealing with customers in our business where we, as a business, decided to do one of our customers a favor in return for niceness on their part.
Example #1
We have a customer who has ordered costumes from us for her Great Dane twice before. She [...]
It Saves to Be Nice Part 2: How to Be a Nice Customer
As mentioned previously in Part 1 of this series, It’s Business But It’s Also Personal, no matter how professional a business tries to be, we sometimes can’t help but be affected by the people we deal with because we are human. When a customer is nice to us, we are nice in return. In many [...]
