Do Online Complaints Pay Off?

More ticked-off buyers are taking their gripes to the Web. We show you how to get results.

These wild-and-woolly gripe sites won't resolve your beefs with corporate America, but they provide forums for you to sound off--and warn others.

The Complaint Station: Features forums on topics from @Home to Zippo lighters. The top gripe getter? America Online.

Thegripe.com: Speak out on anything here, but keep it clean--the site posts no profanity.

The Rip-Off Report: This ad-rich site features reports on everything from deceptive ads to cheating spouses.

Screwed Central: Covers a gamut of grievances and offers a revenge forum.

Sucks500: Hundreds of forums on thousands of topics, the most (un)popular of which are government and Microsoft.

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