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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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Pretend, for a minute, that car rental companies are high school students. The average class grade on a recet test is 73 percent, which is a C- and, truth be told, just a point away from a D.

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Please take the time to answer a dozen questions for us that will help to focus the material on ConsumerTraveler.com. We are very interested in who are our readers.

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Eating at a restaurant should be a positive experience. But is it? After all, it’s the time when someone else shops, cooks, serves you what (you think) you’ve ordered and takes away the dishes and glasses to a mysterious place. Best of all, you’re not responsible for washing them. In spite of these definite pluses, people appear to have more gripes than you’d think. And they make no bones about voicing them.

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(Sunday, October 11) If you have not taken our favorite U.S.airline poll, this is your last chance to register your vote. The cross-referenced data we have been collecting has been fascinating. We will be releasing this poll data on Wednesday, October 14th. Please let us know your favorite airline and why you fly that airline.

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We have two different newsletters for our readers — a daily listing of our headlines and a weekly (or twice-a-week) newsletter that features our top posts from the previous days. We are polling our readers to see how often they would like once- or twice-a-week newsletter. Plus, what day (or days) would you like to get the newsletter to have time to actually read it.

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Pop quiz: When Americans go on vacation, how do they travel?

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I’m a sucker for anything having to do with Priceline’s Negotiator, William Shatner’s alter ego. There’s just something about Captain Kirk bargaining with airlines that’s a utterly surreal. Well, it turns out some of you feel the same way.

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Maybe, according to the latest survey by Access America. Asked if they believed this was a good time to find “great travel deals” a majority of respondents — 40 percent — said they “somewhat” agreed. Only about a third of the respondents strongly agreed.

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Ned has surveyed almost 100 business and leisure airline passengers to determine their air travel peeves and frustrations with some surprising results.

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