Senior Editor at Consumer Reports
Senior Editor at Consumer Reports magazine
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Amanda Walker
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FROM Amanda Walker
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Consumer Reports Campaigns against Extended Warranties The North American Retail Dealers Association says it's getting a bad rap from nonprofit Consumer Reports magazine over the value of extended warranties. The magazine is campaigning with a full-page ad in USA Today and e-mails to almost a million subscribers. The North American Retail Dealers Association says the campaign is "unbalanced," because, "a simple fact of life is that everything eventually breaks."
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