Dave Lieber: No comment yet on presidential run

December 25, 2015 by

Is Watchdog Nation founder Dave Lieber about to mount a consumer-rights campaign for the U.S. presidency?

As unlikely as that sounds, the answer, according to a Dallas Morning News posting —
“New presidential candidate? Twitter thinks so” — is potentially yes.

Through a series of tweets from others, the writer puts together an outline for a Lieber candidacy.

One potential slogan according to a leaked bumper sticker: “Watchdog 2016 – Take the CON out of consumer.”

Lieber declined to comment, even to his own Watchdog Nation.

He, supposedly, was holed up in his writer’s den working on something special.

“Stay tuned,” Watchdog desk administrator Marina Trahan Martinez tweeted with the #watchdogforpresident hashtag.

Read the full DallasNews.com post here.

 

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In a symbolic campaign, our guy runs for – whaa? – president!

December 20, 2015 by

Watchdog Nation founder Dave Lieber is taking a stand on behalf of his readers’ number one pet peeve.

His stand is a symbolic run for the U.S. presidency, which he announced Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016 in his Watchdog column in The Dallas Morning News. See it here.

The pet peeve? His readers — citizens of Watchdog Nation, he calls them — are quite surprised when they have phone numbers, email addresses, sometimes even bank account numbers for scammers who try to hurt them. Yet the authorities don’t seem to care.

Dave proposes creating a “junior FBI squad” that would work both here and overseas to take out the thousands of illegal operations that call, mail and email Americans every day with duplicitous schemes.

How can you help? Enjoy the debut campaign video here. And share the link – https://youtu.be/8iKqghi1nzg – with you friends. Let’s have fun.

Read our original story about leaks on Twitter before the official campaign announcement here.

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Read Dave Lieber’s Watchdog for President announcement speech here.

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Watchdog Nation “Tougher ‘n a junkyard dawg”

May 21, 2012 by

Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation receives mail, mail and more mail every day from folks who have problems and want to learn how to solve them. This is one of our favorites that arrived at Watchdog Nation World Headquarters this week.

 Dear Brother Dave (aka “Tougher ‘n a junkyard dawg”):

 It is well-imagined that all your postal mail, your e-mail and your received phone calls begin with, “Dave, I’ve got a problem, and I want you to spend your time/energies/ and all your remaining resources toward arriving at a resolution.”

 This letter, though, is the exception!

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Ever since you responded to my “Dave, I’ve got a problem” letter several months ago, I’ve since felt a very close connection to “The Watchdog” and look forward every Sunday morning to reading about your resolution of other folk’s problems in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

 The “resolutions” are general in nature, and as such they benefit not only the one who request your monumental effort — but they further aid those who’ve had similar problems, or may be confronted with them in the future.

 But of course, not everyone enjoys reading “The Watchdog.” Not everyone you say!?!

 Well, the con/scam/bunco “artists” don’t enjoy it, and I think it is safe to say that many of them (if not all) have been “run out of Dodge” because of your having revealed their attempt to “separate us gullible old fools from our meager (cash) holdings.”

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 So once again, this hard-scribbled letter is but meant to serve as a GIGANTIC and heartfelt thank you for all that you have done/are doing/and will continue doing for all of us “everyday/average” folks who (too often) are being “stepped on” by the big bully ner-do-wells with their “get rich quick schemes.”

 With sincere respect and admiration,

 Rod Hale

Glen Rose, Texas

 PS I already know the quality of your heart, and as such, a response to this letter is not necessary. Have a coffee break instead, OK?!

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Dear Rod,

Response unnecessary? Surely, you jest. What a wonderful, touching piece of writing that we will treasure always.

Dave

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Dave Lieber shows Americans how to fight back against corporate deceptions in his wonderful book, Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong. Are you tired of losing time, money and aggravation to all the assaults on our wallets? Learn how to fight back with ease — and win. Get the book here.

Read The Watchdog Nation manifesto here!

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VIDEO: 2012 edition of Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation book debuts on TV

April 6, 2012 by

“Most of the bad actors that I write about in the Star-Telegram just have a truck, a cell phone and a website. They don’t have an office. They’re not real. They don’t have a company. They don’t have workers. They’re just guys putting together jobs. It’s just not worth it.”

Dave Lieber celebrates the debut of the 2012 edition of Dave Lieber's Watchdog Nation book on Good Morning Texas, WFAA, Dallas, TX

So says Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Dave Lieber, founder of the consumer rights movement WatchdogNation.com, in a TV appearance on WFAA/Channel 8’s Good Morning Texas in Dallas. He went to the airwaves to warn Texans whose property was damaged in this week’s tornado outbreak not to fall for slick-talking roofers and contractors. There are good guys and bad guys, Dave says. It’s easy to distinguish between the two if you know what you’re doing. 

“I don’t want anyone to get hurt in these next few weeks,” he told host Paige McCoy Smith.

Watch the 4:38 video to learn more about Dave’s tactics and strategies by clicking on the box below. 

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The TV appearance marked the official launch of the new 2012 edition of Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong. The book is updated with the latest information. Become a citizen of Watchdog Nation. Get the book, exclusively here at www.WatchdogNation.com‘s secure store. (Don’t buy previous out-of-date editions sold elsewhere.)

Dave Lieber celebrates the debut of the 2012 edition of Dave Lieber's Watchdog Nation book on Good Morning Texas, WFAA, Dallas, TX

Find out what thousands already know. Protecting yourself and your family and business is easier than you think. When you know what you’re doing, it takes just seconds, and it’s free. Get wise — or get ripped.

 

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Are you tired of fighting the bank, the credit card company, the electric company and the phone company? They can be worse than scammers the way they treat customers. A popular book, Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong, shows you how to fight back — and win! The book is available at WatchdogNation.com as a hardcover, CD audio book, e-book and hey, what else do you need? The author is The Watchdog columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Visit our store. Now revised and expanded for 2012, the book won two national book awards for social change. 

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Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation on TV

March 20, 2009 by

A clear and passionate explanation of what is going on with this consumer revolutionary movement – one that is growing with more new ‘citizens’ of Watchdog Nation getting ‘sworn in’ every day. Enjoy…

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“It’s not the $5. It’s the principle.”

February 15, 2009 by

Watchdog Nation hears that all the time. Dave Lieber was interviewed on radio station KYQX-FM by Linda Brooks Bagwell recently on her “Books ‘n Authors” show, which is broadcast on a chain of radio station throughout North Central and East Texas. The subject was Watchdog Nation.

Here is a caller, Gary, complaining about a subject that grates on all of our nerves. Banks charges that nickel and dime you to death. Dave’s talk with the man on the radio.

Gary later attended a book signing at Lark Bookstore in Weatherford and told Lieber that the reason he went to the bank in question to cash the check was to see if a new customer’s check was any good. He said he has been burned too many times in his business by bad checks. The bank in question was close to the customer’s location.

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