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Here’s the ideal resource for every consumer faced with questions like: “Is this the right product for me? Will I get my money’s worth in this product? Which brand is the best for me?”

In today’s marketplace, there are so many products that can be bought and so many ways to buy them. Consumers are often faced with too many choices when trying to decide on which products to purchase.

The Consumer Reports Buying Guide 2009 is a one-stop portable source for making intelligent, money saving purchases for all home buying needs. This book tells you what manufacturers can’t and often won’t tell you – based on a full year’s worth of Consumer Reports testing. This compact reference guide contains over 950 brand-name ratings along with invaluable information on what products are available, important features, latest trends and expert advice on:

Home office equipment

Digital cameras and camcorders

Home entertainment

Cellular Phones

Home and yard tools

Gas Grills

Air conditioners

Kitchen appliances

Vacuum cleaners and washing machines

Cars , minivans, pickups and SUV’s

And so much more!From refrigerators to vacuum cleaners, digital cameras to SUVs -- Consumer Reports Buying Guide 2009 will make every consumer a smarter shopper.

What Customers Say About The Buying Guide 2009 (Consumer Reports Buying Guide):

The guide itself is really good and very informative. I was very disappointed. But we are missing about 75 pages from the book. All the charts towards the end are missing which are the most helpful part of the book. This was a birthday present for my husband along with 3 other magazine subscriptions. I bought the brand new version of this and it wasn't so brand new.unless they were made with a chunk of pages missing.

Probably Consumer Reports is best known for its accurate ratings on cars. But we also found this guide very useful for recent replacements of a 13-year-old washing machine with a worn out water pump and a toaster. It's a highly recommended little book, with lots of excellent detail on the finer points of mechanical and electronic devices as well.

Look, I see the value in many of CR's ratings, but more and more, their overt bias is affecting their ratings., especially in anything regarding health care.Other raters have mentioned a 90% accuracy rating for CR, I'd make that closer to 80%.Their bias towards Japanese items versus U.S. items continues in this guide.

A valuble resource for purchasing everything from cars, suv's, computers, or vacuum cleaners. Don't buy anything before reviewing the "Buying Guide," yet no guide necessary for purchasing this book. Many fine used copies available.

I have been using these reviews for 25+ years, and have found their advice worth looking at. They are accurate about 90% of the time, with a slight bias towards Japanese products. I have found the BEST source of product information is right here on Amazon.