Overcharging In Ireland

Originally published November 15th, 2004. This article on Value Ireland, Rip-Off Ireland – You Have Been Warned!, was originally inspired way back in 2004 by some online research conducted on the website. This found that 41% of Irish consumers surveyed did not check their bills before paying them. At the time, there were a number of high profile cases where banks and other companies had overcharged customers by sometimes large amounts of money, yet customers rarely noticed. This, Value Ireland believes, is the true scale of “Rip Off Ireland”. Irish consumers are regularly having money taken from them without their knowledge – ...

I Buy Irish

I wrote a lot before Christmas about buying Irish - the difficulties in buying Irish made products, and the potential alternatives of buying from Irish retailers rather than German or UK originating ones. Having thought about this over the holidays, and having completed my Christmas shopping without going to Newry, I'd just like to declare - "I Buy Irish". Where I can, I will buy Irish products over imported ones, and where such options aren't available, I'll buy from Irish retailers rather than foreign ones. I appreciate that at times that could have me paying a little over the odds for certain items, ...

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The Euro – Sterling Dual Pricing Issue

Is anyone else as bored as I am about all this recent coverage? This dual pricing has been an issue for years. And there's nothing can be done except not buying the items concerned, and not shopping in the shops that do it - assuming we have a problem with it. Most of my comments below are things that I've been saying for the past 5 years. It's almost deja vu all over again in some ways. Things never changed 5 years ago at the original height of the perceived "rip off Ireland" - well, they did, we got the ...