Monthly Archives: March 2007

“Value Packs” – not always the best value

I was sent an e-mail recently from someone highlighting how people should be careful in shows when they’re looking at “value pack” [...]

What’s the actual cost of the M50 Toll?

For the most of 2004 to 2006, I travelled twice a day through the M5o toll bridge, paying my €1.80. It was [...]

Lidl, Podge & Rodge, and the “horsey set”

Last week, Podge & Rodge made great fun of the “horsey set” going to Lidl to buy horse riding gear – though [...]

30 Things Not to Do with Your SSIA

Back in January, I posted about an article we’d put together on the ValueIreland website entitled 30 Things Not to Do with [...]

Irelands Consumer Website

This how Fine Gael are describing their ripoff website. But this is what “the paper of record” the Irish Times said about [...]

Consumer Power At Work in the UK

Following on from the PriceWatch article in yesterdays Irish Times asking why there’s never any large consumer campaigns in Ireland, there was [...]

Ultimate Rip-off? Someone should call the polic……Oh!

I received this via e-mail this morning. Not Ireland, but it’s not too disimilar to how things are done here – witness [...]

Quick Consumer Quiz

Complete the following sentence. The Customer is always: a. A Dickhead b. Right c. Condescending Obviously, we’d always thought that b was [...]

You can actually now shop around for electricity, sort of!

I should have added to my original post above about checking out the Airtricity site looking for business deals for electricity. Airtrictiy [...]

Why are we Irish so reluctant to complain?

A big intention when I set up Value Ireland was to encourage Irish consumers to complain a little more, to stand up [...]