ValueIreland.com Buy Irish Page
Welcome to the Buy Irish page on ValueIreland.com. On this page I'll bring together all of the Buy Irish posts that I write here on the website, as well as providing links to other Buy Irish resources such as other websites and newspaper articles. We've seen a lot of focus in recent times where various people and organisations are doing there bit to try to boost the amount of purchases of Irish products, and this is my little bit. Please read this key post that I wrote some time ago which explains my position regarding buying Irish - I Buy Irish. Subscribe to ...
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 – ...
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 ...
Who has lost their customers personal data?
Similar to how we track the Irish companies that have been caught or have admitted overcharging their customers, we'll track on this page the Irish companies who are careless with their customers personal data. 2007 and 2008 have seen a growing number of incidences (or reporting of historical incidences) of companies losing laptops, disks and USB sticks, all containing the personal data of their customers. Organisations Responsible: 10 Incidences Involved: 16 Irish Consumers Impacted: 746,900 (est.) National Gallery of Ireland - A MAJOR industrial relations row has broken out at the National Gallery in Dublin after a secret camera was installed in a staff ...
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