31.   But when customers complain about real problems, eWatch reports can provide client companies early warning about product shortcomings that need fixing.

32.   Consumer agencies say they have not received complaints about the practice, but bankers say customers sometimes complain when a debit-card purchase has been declined.

33.   Customers have complained they did not understand the sales disclosures that accompanied the pitches.

34.   Customers complain of long lines, a lack of help and clerks who are so hip they look down their noses on anything that smells of Hollywood.

35.   Customers complain of outages, dropped calls, garbled speech, echoes and interludes in which only one side of a conversation can be heard.

36.   Customers complained about the disappearance of in-flight meals.

37.   Customers complained that the pagers were too big, too expensive and too limited in their geographic range.

38.   Customers complained.

39.   Customers have complained.

40.   Customers usually complain to PUC commissioners only after they have exhausted all other remedies, said Timothy Sullivan, telecommunications adviser to PUC Commissioner Henry Duque.