Half Americans admit to re-gifting - survey
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Wrapping up that unwanted picture frame from last Christmas and giving it to someone else as a gift might not be as taboo as it once was, according to a study released on Wednesday.
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An estimated half-million people make a full- or part-time living by auctioning everything from macramÃ© to Maseratis on the Internet.
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SHUFFLING THE CARDS: With the rising popularity of giving gift cards in lieu of presents, Internet businesses have sprung up allowing the sale or swap of unwanted cards.
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Over half of the population in England have volunteered and given to charity in the last 12 months, a survey suggests.
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A poll suggests that a large majority of Americans support restrictions on the use of Social Security numbers if it would help prevent identity theft.
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A common scheme of those hoping to bilk bidders: send e-mails to people who had narrowly lost an auction.
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Gartner&#39;s research indicates that US consumers have certain expectations as to what fair use really is. &quot;When we&#39;ve surveyed teens and adults, we&#39;ve found that at least 60 percent of both groups
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A report funded by the banking industry finds U.S. ID fraud is down by a half-million victims in 2006. But a data-privacy expert says the study is dead wrong. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Although existing homes are selling  at their slowest pace in four years, most Americans are  confident their homes are worth more now than they were a year  ago, according to a survey released on Thursday.
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One of the most frequently asked holiday etiquette questions involves the practice of re-gifting. So I asked readers recently if they thought that taking a gift they had received and passing it on to someone else was prudent or just plain rude.
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New survey on Internet attitudes says nearly a quarter of Americans believe the Internet could take the place of a partner for a time.
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People in the UK are borrowing almost twice that of citizens in other western European countries, a report says.
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The gift card &#151; often viewed as the little, plastic solution for keeping friends and family out of the return lines &#151; doesn't always serve as the ideal present. Responding to consumers who don't want to buy themselves another sweater, or will take a pass on a fancy steak dinner, Internet businesses have sprung up allowing people to sell or swap unwanted gift cards.
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Americans lost at least &#36;548 million to identity theft and consumer fraud last year as the Internet provided new victims for age-old scams, according to government statistics released Tuesday.
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More than half of Americans, 54 percent, continue to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or a program to develop them before the United States invaded last year, according to a poll released Friday.
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Shoppers across America have millions of gift cards tucked away in envelopes, drawers and wallets. And some of the nation's largest retailers are profiting as a result.
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Three in 10 Americans say they have donated to the victims of the South Asia tsunami, an Associated Press poll found. The total of private donation is rapidly approaching the &#36;350 million pledged by the government as private citizens made many of their donations online.