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Browse through the Consumer Information Center. Discuss the types of contracts people make in everyday life.

Hint: Discuss something you learn from one of these websites:

Consumer Action Website or:
http://publications.usa.gov/USAPubs.php

Consumer Information Catalog for info on consumer issues:
http://www.usa.gov/topics/consumer.shtml

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This solution browses through the Consumer Information Center and provides a discussion on types of contracts people make in everyday life.

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I have reviewed one of the two websites mentioned above and provide the following information that I learned:

I viewed the website for:
Consumer Information Catalog for info on consumer issues.
http://www.usa.gov/topics/consumer.shtml

In that site, I learned that service contracts and extended warranties are not all there cut out to be. It appears that the cost for these contracts or warranties may only be a means of adding to ...

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