Super Threats: How to Sound Like a Lawyer and Get Your Rights on Your Own

From The Dust Jacket: If you've ever felt abused, ignored, or bedeviled by hostile landlords, ineffectual complaint clerks, anonymous computers, or impenetrable corporations, here's a book that will tell you how to get your rights without going further into debt by making a lawyer rich. Written by two lawyers who know all the tricks the opposition is pulling with their battery of expensive legal advisers, it gives you inside information on how to outwit and win when dealing with crafty car salesmen, hard-to-nail-down mail-order outfits, obtuse credit bureaus, overbearing landlords, butter-fingered moving companies, sneaky appliance outlets, rip-off repairmen and many other threats to one's pocketbook and sanity. There's information on handling such hassles as getting a refund from an unscrupulous auto-repair shop, wiping out computerized billing errors, even quieting a noisy neighbor. The author's reveal the pressure tactics lawyers use to get action, explain how to write and effectively use the so-called "lawyer's letter"- that collection of formidable phrases and legal citations guaranteed to make someone jump or sit down with a thud. There are step-by-step instructions on how to get action from governmental bodies; how to write formal notices or petitions to government agencies and officials; and dozens of full-length forms and letters you can use to get action without getting ulcers. This book is the ultimate consumer's weapon.

"Super Threats" is the poor man's answer to fighting back. When I first heard about this book I had just lost some money to some one promising me they could get me a homr equity loan. But I had to put some money up front to "process" the paper work. After getting this book and reading it I decided to launch my own "Super Threat" to try and see if I could get all or part of my money back. Following the books instructions to the letter I sent a letter in the format outlined in the book. I even went out and got the "Certified Mail" stamps with the certified number so I could put that number in my letter. One of the tips in the book. Within four days I not only got my all my money back, I got a great letter of apolagy from the CEO of the company. Need I say more?

I have used the suggested templates for 2 different consumer complaints, modifying them to suit each situation and in both cases the results exceeded my expectations.