Library
Web Reference Sites
Consumer Information
The Better Business Bureau
The Better Business Bureau of Northeast Florida Database Search
Consumer.gov: Your resource for consumer information from the Federal Government.
ConsumerGuide: Includes reviews, ratings, and pricing for new and used vehicles,
electronics, home office equipment, and family products.
Consumer Information Center: Consumer brochures and information from Pueblo,
CO.
ConsumerReview.com: Product reviews by consumers for electronics, sports
gear, computers, and more.
ConsumerSearch: Reviews,
analyzes, and ranks products in various categories.
Consumer Sentinel: Site allows
you to report your fraud complaints so they can be shared with law enforcement
officials across the U.S. and around the world.
Consumer World: Compendium of useful online consumer resources, news, and
related information
Consumers' Checkbook: Offers information
and guides to buying a car, and choosing a doctor, hospital, or insurance.
Also includes information on leases, bargains, and restaurants.
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs: Consumer information
and resources for Floridians including the Lemon Law, complaint forms, and more.
Carfax Vehicle History Reports: Free Lemon Check.
EPA Fuel Economy Guide: Search for specific makes and models of cars to
find fuel efficiency ratings, mpg, and comparisons with other vehicles.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: Vehicle ratings, safety facts, and
more.
Lemon Law America: Site is resource for consumers with defective vehicles
or products. A visit to this site familiarizes you with the lemon statutes in
your state and offers tips on how to proceed if you think you've got a "lemon."
Lemon Law Information
by State
National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration National Center for Statistics and Analysis:
Traffic safety facts, air bag fatalities, crash statistics and more.
BanxQuote:
Site provides mortgages, loans, credit cards and CD rates
in all 50 states.
In addition, you can receive daily market quotes and rates
on Banking, Auto, Home and Consumer Finance.
Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
: Allows consumers to look up the liability
claims on doctors, dentists, lawyers, hospitals, HMOs and other institutions.
RateNet: This service tracks more than
11,000 banks and loan institutions across the country and updates them daily.
Social Security Benefit Calculators: Provides rough estimates of your retirement
benefit at three different retirement ages.
USA Today Calculators:
Lots of handy calculators for figuring how much house you can afford, mortgage
payments, retirement needs, buying vs. leasing a car cost comparisons, and
many more.
FamilyTime: Site provides you with
online household organization, menu planning, and money-saving applications,
as well as advice from home organization and cooking experts on how you can
best run your household.
Homeglossary.com: Glossary of real estate terms.
How to Clean Anything: This
site is a collection of information, compiled by industry professionals,
that seeks to provide the best quality information on household cleaning
methods. Data arranged by house exterior, interior, pets, auto, recreation,
and stains. Also included is a glossary of cleaning terms and articles about
topics submitted by readers.
RepairClinic.com: Site is an
online source of appliance parts and accessories. Provides solutions for
your appliance needs, including helpful hints, tips, troubleshooting and
more.
Cold
Storage Chart: At site site by the USDA Food Safety
and Inspection Service, you will find a Cold Storage Chart
which suggests how long something can be refrigerated,
as well as frozen (for quality).
Feeding America: The Historic
American Cookbook Project: The Michigan State University Library and
the MSU Museum presents this online collection of the most important and
influential 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks.
Nutrition Facts: Free source for nutrition information on almost 6,000
different foods.
RecipeSource: Over 70,000 ecipes
are organized into two major groups - recipes primarily identified with an
ethnic cuisine are broken down by region and ethnic group, while other recipes
are categorized by the type of dish. The site can also be searched by keyword.
Restaurant Row: This dining resource has listings for over 110,000 restaurants
in 7,000 cities in 47 countries. It offers ratings, customer reviews, menus,
photos, maps, and driving directions. Reservations can be made online.
Airline Seat Guru: This site allows you
to choose your aircraft from a list of several carriers, and then get information
on every seat on the plane, including the best seats, the worst, and those to
avoid. The site currently features the fleets of American, Continental, Delta,
US Airways, and United, and promises to add other airlines in the near future.
Applying for Your U.S. Passport the Easy Way: The Department of State's
Bureau of Consular Affairs has prepared this publication to assist you in applying
for your U.S. passport. This guide provides information on how, when and where
to apply for your passport.
Bureau of Consular Affairs: International travel information, including
travel warnings, how to obtain a passport, and more.
Daily Fuel Gauge Report: AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report is the most comprehensive
retail gasoline survey available. Everyday over 60,000 self-serve stations
are surveyed. Site presents average gasoline prices for hundreds of U.S. metropolitan
areas. Statewide averages are also provided.
My Travel Rights: Brought to
you by America's largest Web-based nonprofit association dedicated to protecting
the rights of traveling consumers.
Fire
Safety Fact Sheets
The LifeStyle Optimizer: Use this handy site to create a list of the 10
best cities for you to live, by selecting one characteristic to rank cities and
then by restricting the search to cities with certain demographic, economic,
or climate conditions, such as crime rates, sales and property taxes, etc.
National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators: Search for unclaimed
property.
Nursing Home Compare: This site by the Centers for Medicare and Medicad
Services, Department of Health and Human Services, provides detailed information
about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in
the country.
Stop Junk Mail, E-mail and Phone
Calls: This guide provides clear, simple and proven reduction techniques.
Stop Unwanted Telemarketing Calls: Information on your rights from the Federal
Communications Commission, and steps you can take to stop annoying telemarketers.
UPS Quick Cost Calculator: Compare published rates for sending your UPS
shipments and their insured values to hundreds of destinations around the world.
Veteran’s Administration Benefits and Services
Your Right to Federal Records: Questions and Answers on the Freedom of Information
Act and Privacy Act: PDF document that clearly outlines how to request information
from the federal government.
