Consumer Protection
- Agencies / Organizations
- Wisconsin
- WI Dept. of
Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection
- Consumer
Protection
File a complaint & find Wisconsin's top consumer complaints. Learn about product alerts/recalls. Access factsheets on consumer-related issues including cars, charities, children's products & services, deceptive advertising & marketing, employment scams, funeral planning, get rich quick & pyramid schemes, housing, money, seniors, shopping, telecommunications and more.
- Consumer
Protection
- WI Dept. of
Justice Consumer Protection & Antitrust Unit
Investigates & prosecutes violations of state consumer laws. Site provides information on various scams including pyramid schemes, wireless phone service, loan & credit schemes, telemarketing fraud and more" - Wisconsin Better Business Bureau
- WI Dept. of
Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection
- National
- Better Business Bureau
- Consumer Education
Auto, Charity, Computer/Internet, Family, Finance/Credit, Health, Home, Products, Scams, Travel
- Consumer Education
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Information for mortgage and credit card debt issues, plus other consumer financial topics. - Consumer Product Safety
Commission
Report an unsafe product, view recall information & publications on product safety, and more. Information for the consumer & the manufacturer. - Consumer Protection Resources
- Federal Trade
Commission: Consumer Information
Numerous publications offering advice on avoiding scams & rip-offs as well as tips on other consumer topics. Topics include automobiles, credit, diet/health/fitness, home ownership, investments, products & services, employment scams and more. - Consumer Sentinel, Military
"Project of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Defense to identify and target consumer protection issues that affect members of the United States Armed Forces and their families." Complaints entered to the site are accessible to over 550 law enforcement agencies; your complaints will help target law enforcement actions against companies or individuals
- Better Business Bureau
- Wisconsin
- Complaints
- Consumer Complaint (WI Dept. of Agriculture Trade & Consumer Protection)
- Consumer Complaints (WI Better Business Bureau)
- Consumer Complaints (Federal Trade Commission)
- Consumer Protection (WI Dept. of Financial Institutions)
- Food Complaints (WI Dept. of Agriculture Trade & Consumer Protection)
- Directories
- Corporate Consumer Contacts (Federal Citizen Information Center)
Company contact information including toll-free numbers, mail addresses and website addresses. - Gethuman
Find out how to bypass the automated phone systems of many consumer-related companies. Find "secret" phone numbers and codes to directly connect to a human being when calling a company for customer service.
- Corporate Consumer Contacts (Federal Citizen Information Center)
- Fraud
- National Fraud Information Center
Report suspected fraud by using online complaint form or 1-800 number. Find information on telemarketing, Internet and elder fraud; scams against businesses and counterfeit drugs.
- National Fraud Information Center
- Guide
to Consumer Law (American Bar Association)
Includes: contract law; special contract terms; advertising & your rights; buying by mail, phone, and online; residential leases; warranties; automobile sales, leases & repairs; consumer credit; buying & selling a home; insurance; contracts in context; consumer rights in the computer age; breach of contract & remedies. - Recalls / Product Safety
- Complaints
- Product Safety Complaint (WI Dept. of Agriculture Trade & Consumer Protection)
- Report Unsafe Products (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
- Complaints
- Right to Cancel
- Right to Cancel (WI State Law Library)
Provides links to resources and laws about Wisconsin's three day right to cancel.
- Right to Cancel (WI State Law Library)
- Statistics
- Consumer Product-Related Statistics (Consumer Product Safety Commission)
- National Electronic
Injury Surveillance System (Consumer Product Safety Commission)
Obtain estimates of the total number of product-related injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms nationwide.
The Law (Additional statutes, regulations & opinions may apply to your specific situation.)
- WI Statutes: ch. 421-429 "Wisconsin Consumer Act"
- WI Admin.
Code: ATCP 90-139
Includes: - WI Statutes and Admin Code on the WI Consumer Act (WI Dept of Financial Institutions)
- Federal Laws
- Regulations, Laws and Information by Product (Consumer Product Safety Commission)
Search for more statutes, regulations & opinions.
Related Topics
- Advertising
- Bankruptcy
- Consumer Complaints
- Contract Law
- Credit & Debt
- Debt Collection
- Direct Marketing
- Identity Theft
- Internet Crime
- Internet Shopping
- Junk Mail Email FAX Spam
- Legal Assistance
- Sweepstakes
- Telemarketing
- Tort Law
- Vehicle Repossession
- Warranties
Law Review Articles
- Get Cash Until Payday! The Payday Loan Problem in Wisconsin
2006 Wis. L. Rev. 1627 - Reinventing Consumer Protection
57 DePaul L. Rev. 45 (2007)
Library Resources
- Commercial and Consumer Transactions
- Consumer Protection Law in a Nutshell
- Methods of Practice: Wisconsin Practice Series