{"id":1869,"date":"2008-06-12T10:31:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrichslowly.org\/blog\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2018-11-03T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T16:46:20","slug":"the-13-commandments-of-savvy-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/the-13-commandments-of-savvy-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"The 13 Commandments of Savvy Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last week I wrote about the Consumer Action Handbook<\/i><\/b>. This freely-available guide from the U.S. government is packed with useful information. I was leafing through the book again this morning before I put it away, and I noticed that the good stuff starts on page one with a list of thirteen quick consumer tips.<\/p>\n
I’ve transcribed these tips below, quoting verbatim from various sections of the book (which is in the public domain<\/a>), as well as adding my own experiences and advice.<\/p>\n Some of these probably seem obvious \u2014 others less so. It’s all<\/i> good advice, though. When I look at the list, I recognize several of these “commandments” that I’ve violated, particularly buying under stress. I’ve finally learned to just say “no” to anyone who wants me to make a decision now<\/i> (especially if it’s a transaction that I did not initiate), but it hasn’t always been this way.<\/p>\n I’d add a few other “commandments” to this list. I’ve written before about seven essential skills to protect yourself from scammers<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n Can you think of other valuable consumer skills that should be added to this list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I wrote about the Consumer Action Handbook<\/i><\/b>. This freely-available guide from the U.S. government is packed with useful information. I was leafing through the book again this morning before I put it away, and I noticed that the good stuff starts on page one with a list of thirteen quick consumer tips.<\/p>\n I’ve transcribed these tips below, quoting verbatim from various sections of the book (which is in the public domain<\/a>), as well as adding my own experiences and advice.<\/p>\n Some of these probably seem obvious \u2014 others less so. It’s all<\/i> good advice, though. When I look at the list, I recognize several of these “commandments” that I’ve violated, particularly buying under stress. I’ve finally learned to just say “no” to anyone who wants me to make a decision now<\/i> (especially if it’s a transaction that I did not initiate), but it hasn’t always been this way.<\/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31921],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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