Unlike grading automobile safety features, rating a service requires real-world experience from non-dummies. Gain an educated perspective with today's Groupon: for $12, you get a one-year membership to Angie's List (a $39 value, including the $10 signup fee).
Angie's List offers nationwide service, collecting quality reviews to help consumers find high-quality contractors, doctors, mechanics, veterinarians, and more. Membership grants access to more than 500 home and personal services in categories such as home, health and wellness, auto service, and pets. The location-specific site uses a certified data-collection process and does not accept anonymous reviews to better ensure transparency. More than one million members nationwide grade experiences on a scale from A to F, with optional marker-drawn smiley faces awarded for especially outstanding achievements.
Tech-savvy perks such as a mobile app, buying and selling access in a digital marketplace with exclusive discounts, and live call center support (available six days a week) keep consumers in the net-based know. Additionally, the included monthly Angie's List Magazine provides helpful tips to readers, with articles covering topics such as in-home etiquette for visiting contractors and the key differences between doctors and mad scientists.
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The Groupon Guide to: Getting Picked for the Olympics
It has been scientifically proven that one in six people want to compete in the Olympics. Here are some tips for anyone with "torch dreams."
- It's easier to make the team for one of the less popular events, such as Horse Shaving, Geography, or Slim Jim Presents: Jimnastics.
- Try to get onto the Dream Team by emailing Scottie Pippen (LilPipper@hotmail.com).
- Practice for the Biathlon by hitting the slopes and wildly firing a rifle at the end of each ski run.
- Eating Wheaties won't get you into the Olympics, but it will allow you to consume the powdered bones of past Olympic champions.
- Train.
- If it is too late for you to make a team, try entering your child in Vh1's new Baby Olympics.
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