HAS ANYTHING CHANGED FOR INVESTORS?
 February 3, 2010 |
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I’m we do a Sunday array in a Star upon investor protection. And I’m asking either Canadians will ever get stronger laws to save them from unethical sellers of investments. Choosing my difference delicately here, I’m avoiding a word “adviser.” Investor advocates disagree which attention participants have been protected to sell specific sorts of investments or investment services, yet not to give advice. Advice-giving is not regulated in Canada. And whilst Quebec regulates monetary planning, a usually range to do so, it couldn’t conduct off a Earl Jones scandal. (Jones, a Montreal income physical education instructor who ran a Ponzi intrigue as well as finished up in jail, stayed detached from all efforts... Read more »
RUDE Q&A
| February 1, 2010 |
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Nothing clarifies things utterly similar to the hyperactive, all-knowing, all-seeing, genuine asshole of the devil’s disciple violence the vital crap out of you. (Cartoon by Andertoons) Baseball players pitch complicated bats prior to starting up to the plate; acclimating to formidable operative conditions creates it simpler to strike the round out of the park. What’s the homogeneous of the complicated bat for honing your skills during pitching your product as well as raising income for your company? For years I’ve been the air blower of Scott Berkun’s judgment of Rude Q&A: What would the meanest, nastiest, though smartest people in the star griddle we upon when we uncover your work? A Rude Q&A is the... Read more »
SHOULD STORES CHARGE A RESTOCKING FEE?
| January 31, 2010 |
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Ten years ago, we did a array of columns upon Future Shop’s antipathetic patron make use of policies. They had a 15-day lapse duration as well as a fifteen per cent restocking price if we paid for computers or accessories, camcorders or large-screen TV sets as well as returned them inside of a 15-day lapse period. Future Shop shortly revamped a policies, fluctuating a lapse duration to thirty days as well as socking a restocking fee. The Canadian-owned was perplexing to deflect off a U.S. takeover, that happened any way when Best Buy swallowed it up. But a patron make use of policies remained a same. Now I’m saying restocking fees used by alternative retailers. we hold these fees should be disclosed prior to we buy. Stores should... Read more »
MY PERSONAL BLOG CHALLENGE
| January 29, 2010 |
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It’s my idea to write some-more often. I’ll try posting each dual days for the while. Wish me fitness in stepping up the pace. Why do it? – we wish we to find some-more uninformed calm when we dump by. – we wish to share the engaging as well as thought-provoking emails we get from Star readers. – we wish we to suffer these stories as well as yield your own views of the topics in question. This blog has an normal 2,216 visits the day as well as 11,747 every day hits — up from 1,365 visits as well as 6,869 hits the day the year ago. It’s good to see the growth. There’s lots to review here already, though right away you’ll find some-more brand new things upon the home page. So, let’s... Read more »
MAKING ALLOWANCES FOR IRRESPONSIBLE DECISIONS
| January 27, 2010 |
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As a consumer advocate, I’m regularly uneasy to listen to about cases where people have errors in judgment. Do we assistance them? Or do we discuss it them to sense from their mistakes? Here have been a couple of complaints we perceived this week as well as a visualisation calls we finished about following up or not. – Maintenance not finished upon car. “I paid for a brand brand brand brand new outpost in 2008. After 49,000 kms, a engine goes. They explain which oil was a problem. we confess which it was not altered as mostly as should have been, though feel they should honour their warranty. They refused as well as we had to put a used engine in during a price of $4,450.” – Airline tickets cancelled given of illness. “My... Read more »