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== The website of Consumer Reports magazine ==

The website of Consumer Reports magazine can be found at this link:

* http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports Consumer Reports] is an American magazine published monthly by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers_Union Consumers Union], a consumer rights organisation founded in 1936.

Consumer Reports publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory. It does not print outside advertising or permit the commercial use of its reviews for selling products. It states moreover that all tested products are purchased at retail by its staff, rather than being accepted from manufacturers as free samples.

However, most of the information on the Consumer Reports website is only available to paid subscribers.

== Other websites launched by the Consumers Union ==

The Consumers Union also provides the following ancillary websites:

* [http://www.consumerwebwatch.org Consumer Reports WebWatch]: this grant-funded project aims to improve the credibility of Web sites through investigative reporting, publicizing best-practices standards, and publishing a list of sites that comply with the standards. Its content is free.

* [http://www.crbestbuydrugs.org Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs]: combines publicly available (but difficult to comprehend) studies on pharmaceutical effectiveness with pricing information in an easy-to-read format.

* [http://www.greenerchoices.org Greener Choices]: meant to inform consumers about environmentally-friendly products and practices, providing practical information on buying “greener” products that have minimal environmental impact yet meet personal needs.

== Which?, the British equivalent of Consumer Reports ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which%3F Which?] is a subscription magazine and website based in the United Kingdom. Like its American counterpart, Consumer Reports, Which? assists consumers in the choice of goods and services by testing and evaluating products, and maintains its independence by buying everything used for testing at full price. Which? maintains the following websites:

* [http://www.which.co.uk Which? main website]
* [http://www.computingwhich.co.uk Which? computing website]
* [http://www.trygardeningwhich.co.uk Which? gardening website]
* [http://www.whichlegalservice.co.uk Which? legal services website]

Much of the information on these sites is available only to subscribers.

== Other consumer reports websites ==
As mentioned in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports Wikipedia article], the term "consumer report" is sometimes used as a generic expression referring to any document informing the consumer about products. Selected websites that provide such "consumer report" information are listed below:

* http://www.consumersearch.com: this site purports to provide a "review of consumer reviews"

==See also==
[[Review Sites]]

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