"Hundreds of thousands" of consumers did, he said.
That means thousands of consumers with an incentive to think twice about heading to the doctor.
Thousands of consumers stormed stores to demand refunds (often for counterfeit products).
Now, he says, "We have hundreds of thousands of consumers using our product".
In addition, hundreds of thousands of consumers were inconvenienced yesterday by a technical failure at Verizon.
Hundreds to thousands of consumers lined up outside Sears, Target, Macy's, Old Navy and other retailers offering time-sensitive deals.
In a class action, thousands of consumers can benefit when a product they bought is judged to be defective.
The F.D.A. says thousands of consumers take unintentional overdoses of acetaminophen, resulting in 100 deaths from liver failure each year.
He says that hundreds of thousands of consumers in only two states have received insurance cancellation notices.
On that day, hundreds of thousands of consumers are expected to unwrap new e-readers that they received as gifts, and quickly begin downloading books to read.
The agency estimates that "tens of thousands" of consumers received the calls, including people who had placed their phone numbers on the agency's "do not call" list.
